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This Case Gives Your Phone Robotic Legs So It Can Crawl to a Wireless Charging Pad
By now our brains are all wired with smartphone battery anxiety, and panic starts to set in when power drops below 50%. In one of the more bizarre ways to keep those stresses at bay, a team of researchers have developed a new smartphone case with a set of tiny robotic legs that allow a phone to crawl to a wireless charging pad whenever it’s set down on your desk.
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It gives me lots of ideas of how that could go wrong, but my main thought is "Really, people are too fucking lazy to put their phone on a charger?" Sometimes I wonder if some inventions are made to make life convenient, because most of the time I hear the cash-registers go "kaa-chiiing" when reading these articles. I also wonder if there isn't enough garbage already because of the overproduction of things that make life easy, but is produced on such a scale that most of the never sold things end up in a landfill.
Back to the first line: "attack of the killer cellphones" has a nice ring to it although it is not really original. :-)
Kinda cool but definitely creepy. I am going to pass on this.