With all the product announcements, press conferences, events and exhibits to cover at CES, we almost missed the most important item of the day. Almost. A meme has achieved perfection.
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Woman gets into lift. Closes door. Guy slams his motorised wheelchair against the door. Guy gets mad. Keeps ramming the door. Door breaks. Guy falls down lift, chasing woman. I know this is what happens here. I just can’t understand it.
There’s nothing worse than an overly chatty hairdresser. Someone harping on about their snotty-nosed children or how lazy their husband is. Bring on the robots, I say. Especially if they can store memories on a customer’s preferred massage treatment.
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Over at Japan’s Saitama University, researchers are developing a wheelchair that can automatically follow the person walking in front of it, using a system of cameras to lock on to the individual’s shoulders, whether they like it or not.
The Zenith wheelchair, a design by the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Alberta, is fit with tank-like treads to climb up stairs under the user’s own power.
