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    Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future

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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    08/29/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    Wouldn't the greenhousebot kill its plant over and over while trying to determine the optimal process for growth? "Maybe it needs more water? Oops, I overwatered it."
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    08/28/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    "In search of nutrients to care for the plant, the robot is programmed to intuitively learn the optimal method for this process."

    And with that, I envision an army of robotic plant keepers that hunts down whatever humans happen to be on mars to use them as a source of plant food.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/28/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    I'd buy the meat ball and the dishwasher.

    Teleport fridge will never happen.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    08/28/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    Ok the meat thing disturbs me. I know its supposed to be better for the world and more human but manufactured meat just seems wrong. The dish washer seems cool as does the teleport frig, with that you don't have to worry about fruit and veggies going bad. You just order enough for two days.
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    Image of Lightice Lightice
    08/28/09

    @LittleDragon: Why the meat thing disturbs you? It's the most ethical and economically sound way to produce meat that the market demands. No more suffering animals, no more land wasted on pastures, and no more bad quality product. What's there not to like?

    Yeah, it's not "natural". The thing is, nor is the tap water, or seedless bananas, or just about anything that you put into your mouth these days, unless you live on venison.

    Oh, and I don't believe that practical teleportation of anything but information will be acheived in centuries, if ever. Matter-energy conversion is ridiculously inefficent, in any case.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    08/29/09

    @Lightice: Also, it only counts as natural if you hunt and kill with your bare hands, naked. Enjoy your old/weak/sick animals!
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    08/28/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    Was I the only one that immediately thought of Logan's Run when reading about the "renew" steamer? Renew! Renew your clothes!
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/28/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    The teleporting fridge is kind of a ridiculous idea. If the technology existed to teleport an object, it would be just as easy to create the object instead. So this fridge could just create food instead of using up resources.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    08/28/09

    @se7a7n7: since the technology to teleport objects doesn't exist i don't see how you can make any statement on how similar or dissimilar it might be from actual fabrication.
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    Image of Zachery M. Zachery M.
    08/28/09

    @tetracycloide: Personally, I prefer my food teleported as opposed to fabricated. Otherwise you end up with something that is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike" the food you're expecting.
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    08/28/09

    @Zachery M.: Have we all forgotten 'The Fly'?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/28/09

    @lazyeight: Are you kidding? This brings up whole new amazing food combinations. Teleport a mango and bacon and get a Bango? A delicious smoky sweet bacon mango abomination? What else can science make? The Fishmallow! The Chickolate bar! The Fig Chop!
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/28/09

    @tetracycloide: Teleportation, more than likely is similar to a telephone call. You speak into a phone and a copy of your voice comes out the other phone.

    For something to be teleported, it would be broken down and assembled somewhere else. What comes out wouldn't necessarily be the same thing but a fabricated copy that is assembled.

    When you call Movie Phone, there isn't a guy talking to you, it's a recording.
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    Image of Zachery M. Zachery M.
    08/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Oh God, I could really go for a Bango right now.

    Hmm, Terry's would go out of business because Chocolate Oranges would be simpler and cheaper for folks to just make.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/28/09

    @Zachery M.: Yeah, but at least you can use that to power your spaceship.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/28/09

    @se7a7n7: But... he said he was my friend...

    Oh, this reminds me of that concept (I read it somewhere but I forgot what), that when people are teleported they're essentially destroyed and what comes out is a copy, so you get killed every time you teleport, and what comes out isn't you, but it's essentially you, and then AHHHH CLONES
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    08/28/09

    @se7a7n7: that's an awfully definative conclusion from a more than likely.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    08/28/09

    In reply to Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future
    i often mistake my fridge for one that teleports groceries into my home. frequently i will open it to find nothing i am interested in only to find myself searching through it again an hour later as if something might have appeared there in the intervening period.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    08/28/09

    @tetracycloide: Is your fridge correctly connected to your dryer? Have you been putting in enough socks? That could be the problem.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/28/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: It all depends though, on the hour of the day.

    3 PM - pickles inedible
    6 PM - pickles okay. I wish I had bread.
    230 AM - handful of pickles go in mouth.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    08/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: have... have you been watching me at night?
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