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Blind Spot Storage Solutions are selling a space management tool which is -- well, certainly the most efficient we've ever heard of. It's based on the "subliminal" solutions, which create an illusionary ceiling a few inches below your real one, leaving several cubic meters of space for additional storage. But Blind Spot goes far beyond that.
You tag all your possessions; and then the tool simply keeps them out of sight. Everywhere out of sight. Walk out of a room, and it will be immediately and silently packed with books, boxes, chotchkes, and whatever else you've tagged as "in storage". Go down the hall; just before you pass each doorway, the room beyond it will be siphoned free of detritus -- which will be packed elsewhere, leaving the room just as you expect it.
The ceiling space is used for both storage and transport. Objects are whisked up into the ceiling, yanked around your living space, pulled down into efficient pile-ups. Protective fields ward everything against friction, acceleration, impact. More fields pump air around and baffle currents, preventing the explosive winds and supersonic lashings that would otherwise occur.
You never see any of this. If you stand in the center of a room and turn around slowly, a tide of bric-a-brac is crawling behind you -- just beyond your peripheral vision, and from the walls to an inch from your back. Whip your head around, and it's gone. Moved. Just out of sight.
The catch is reflections, of course. And shadows. Blind Spot strongly recommends that you tag mirrors, and anything polished. Also light sources. The tool can fake in reflections and light beams, if it knows to. If it doesn't, you'd better have nerves of steel.
Not even slightly compatible with owning pets.
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http://www.eblong.com/zarf/review/review-37.html. No date, alas, but posted years ago.
Then again, that latter part looks scary - can somebody push the button in app to close the bed while you're sleeping? Hopefully there are some sensors to detect whether it's safe to perform the moving.
...in case there are such sensors, it might actually be properly robotic. Unfortunately no information about safety of this all is not given.
I remember seeing some prior art somewhere. Oh yeah, found it:
Only step up then is virtual butler mode, where you can text ahead about bringing guest(s) or similar.
It appears to require a hard floor and I wonder if it would make grooves in the floor after a while.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/174233048/?autoplay=1&loop=1&...
It's just a piece of forniture that moves side-to-side with electric motors when you push the switches.
(PS: Don't know if it is just my boarding house training from 30 years ago kicking in, but I was horrified to see the girl in the video didn't make the bed before the hid it underneath the main structure!) :)
"Alexa, I want to lie down" while you go use the restroom.
If you wanted to build something like Ori, minus the "robotic" part, you could just order the track and rollers from Uline, and build cabinetry out of Ikea parts atop a Uline base.
Business opportunity: write an app to design such things, visualize them, and order the parts. Like Autodesk Kitchen Designer, which does kitchen cabinet planning.
I've just started getting into the whole smarthome thing, it worries me how hard it is to get information about security characteristics or even standards enforcement for these (which appear to be mostly non-existent).
I wish the public were more inclined to ask the question of 'but how is it secured?' when examining something to be placed in their home.
It's "principle" in this case.
http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/p...
I have this semi-related vision of mobile furniture locomoting from one apartment to the next, during a move, like something out of Fantasia.
And what would it run on? power of imagination? heh
