Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
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Ragdollmaster
Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:09 am Posts: 1115 Location: Being The Great Juju
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Grif wrote: How would you generate energy with a treadmill? Treadmills work by spinning the 'ground' underneath you for you to run on, which requires energy. 411570N3 wrote: I've run on treadmills that just have you propel the track for it to measure how far you've run. This. You get on and start running, essentially pushing the track behind you and causing it to come back up in a cycle.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:18 am |
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Roast Veg
Data Realms Elite
Joined: Tue May 25, 2010 8:27 pm Posts: 4521 Location: Constant motion
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
That's just an inverted hamster wheel.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:53 am |
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am Posts: 4074 Location: That quaint little British colony down south
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
I recommend you look up the origin of the word treadmill.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:06 am |
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Roast Veg
Data Realms Elite
Joined: Tue May 25, 2010 8:27 pm Posts: 4521 Location: Constant motion
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Well, tread as in the walking term and mill as in a variety of spinning things like a water mill or wind mill. So yes, an inverted hamster wheel is rather an accurate term there.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:12 am |
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am Posts: 4074 Location: That quaint little British colony down south
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
And yet you implied that a treadmill and an inverted hampster wheel are separate things. Anyway,
A Metalstorm gun firing 40mm grenades. Air cooling.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:30 am |
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Grif
REAL AMERICAN HERO
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:25 pm Posts: 5655
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
411570N3 wrote: A Metalstorm gun firing 40mm grenades. Air cooling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwN1JbeLGj0Manually starting a treadmill seems like it defeats the purpose. You'd have to be anchoring yourself against something 'solid' relative to the motion of the treadmill, which isn't a natural running posture in any way at all. Running on regular treadmills doesn't fully equate to real running as it is, and people want to make it weirder?
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:48 am |
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am Posts: 4074 Location: That quaint little British colony down south
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
I meant single barrel, max fire rate firing with reloads as fast as the loader can manage. Also, I have a feeling treadmills started that way and got motorised later.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:04 am |
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111herbert111
Joined: Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:31 am Posts: 550 Location: error: location not found
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
A Tank that comes equipped with a homing-land-shark cannon and cup holders that can make your drink hot or cool.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:17 am |
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Yoman987
Joined: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:06 am Posts: 196 Location: In front of keyboard, staring at monitor. (WA, Oz)
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
How about a Make-your-own-Mobile-phone (Cellphone for you silly Americans) where you can choose the OS, pre-installed software + drivers + such, touch or buttons or both, layout (candybar, slide, flip etc), extra buttons (camera, music), inputs and outputs, colours and materials it's made of? I'd pay a bit more than a regular phone for that. Oh, and whatever plan and provider I want.
And if I had just said 'everything' then some of you wouldn't have understood that I meant EVERY thing.
And how about you give me a USB cable that's longer that 3 inches next time, hey Nokia? Thanks.
Also, Universal USB cables. Using flat contact connectors or something. That'd be nice, since I have a lot of different USB ports and not enough of the right cables.
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:33 pm |
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Natti
Data Realms Elite
Joined: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:05 am Posts: 3878
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Yoman987 wrote: USB cable that's longer that 3 inches Me wantie-wantie.
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:16 pm |
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Lizardheim
DRL Developer
Joined: Fri May 15, 2009 10:29 am Posts: 4107 Location: Russia
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Get a sony erricson next then, ~2 feet long usb cable. Plus their phones are better, but that's just a matter of opinion.
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:55 pm |
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Roast Veg
Data Realms Elite
Joined: Tue May 25, 2010 8:27 pm Posts: 4521 Location: Constant motion
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Following on from Yoman's idea, how about they operate like computers in that you can mix and match how you like. You know, like Lego.
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:51 pm |
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TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Waffles and fried chicken, at the same meal. Failing that, Cheerios with bacon bits.
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:51 pm |
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111herbert111
Joined: Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:31 am Posts: 550 Location: error: location not found
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Hyperkultra wrote: Waffles and fried chicken, at the same meal. Failing that, Cheerios with bacon bits. You could just put some fried chicken on waffles or drop some bacon bits in your cereal. How about a gun that sprays bacon bits?
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Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:39 am |
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am Posts: 4074 Location: That quaint little British colony down south
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Re: Ridiculously Awesome Ideas thread.
Propoganda leaflet bombing, but with bacon.
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Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:48 am |
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