RSS Feeds
Gadgets
Rotoflexion Massaging Backpack Has Robot Hands to Rub You Down
Posted by Adam Frucci at 2:10 AM on December 12, 2007
Normally, a heavy backpack is the cause of shoulder and back aches and pains, but not the Rotoflexion Massaging Backpack. No, it's got "strong mechanical hands" on the straps that give you a workover while you tote your laptop around. I'd expect a massaging backpack to just vibrate, which would be enough in itself, but this really takes the idea to the next level. It seems pretty impractical to me, which I suppose is why this mockup of a patent is the only place it currently exists. We need to slap more robotic hands on our consumer products, that's what I think. [Book of Joe]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
There are currently no AU comments for this post.
ANoel
Posted 4:22 PM 11/12/07
Um... any idea how much the battery and solenoids and valves and tubing and wiring and insulation and other mechanicals WEIGH?
This is heavy duty bullshit.
ANoel
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 3:25 PM 11/12/07
Well, not a bad idea at all. I mean, the idea, not the design.
On my trips, I tend to carry a very heavy bad stuffed with laptop and books... it'd be interesting to have something that uses that weight to massage my shoulders.
Dunno if it'd be more confortable though. And you wouldn't need a whole bag to do that... just something that could be clipped on the straps.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Monsterdog
Posted 12:44 PM 11/12/07
How low do those hands go, if you get my drift? ;)
Monsterdog
deusdiabolus
Posted 12:01 PM 11/12/07
I would want an extra feature that causes the "hands" to extend out from the pack at the press of a button and throttle the person in front of me. This would be extremely useful.
deusdiabolus
Noobs-R-Us
Posted 11:23 AM 11/12/07
What a way to turn someone paranoid. When wearing this in public you'll constantly think someone is behind you trying to steal your laptop from your backpack.
Noobs-R-Us
teqsun.com
Posted 11:01 AM 11/12/07
photoshop?
teqsun.com
PJK
Posted 10:52 AM 11/12/07
Nice, so when it malfunctions instead of a bag rub it punches through my rib cage, rips out my heart and shows it to me.
PJK
BigDanInTX
Posted 10:46 AM 11/12/07
@Adam Frucci: "We need to slap more robotic hands on our consumer products, that's what I think." - Oh, I'm sure the possibilities here are endless. However, I can't get past my first thought of the first product I would utilize it in... underwear... ;-]
BigDanInTX
TasteTheFlava
Posted 10:46 AM 11/12/07
@razordu30: It is fake. "It seems pretty impractical to me, which I suppose is why this mockup of a patent is the only place it currently exists." It's a MOCKUP of a patent, and so is not real at all.
TasteTheFlava
razordu30
Posted 10:39 AM 11/12/07
Call me crazy, but this looks kinda fake to me. The pattern on the backpack just runs up into the arms, as if the pattern was just an overlay on it.
I dunno.
razordu30
Mobius
Posted 10:17 AM 11/12/07
I got this theory this was put on earth by God to give men succulent rubdowns.
Mobius
tin
Posted 8:17 PM 12/12/07
wtf is a lion bar?
tin