Breakfast Links: Hover Car, Unfortunate Ad Placement & Panty Myth
My children! The future is now! Well at least according to Gizmodo. Moller International is getting ready to release a consumer hover-car, named oh so enticingly the M200G! This bad boy will go 10 feet up and 50MPH and only set you back $90k-$125k. There’s a video on the giz page that’s interesting for about the first 30 seconds and then becomes astoundingly boring for the rest of the couple minutes it runs. For the future, it really isn’t very impressive. I wanted to see it shooting around at 50MPH, getting stuck in traffic then rising up 10 feet and rolling over all the pedestrian cars below. Instead, the video shows it going up, staying up, then going down. Then doing it again. With swarms of people all around taking pictures. Sigh.
If that was boring to look at you can get your chuckles in with this page of 15 unfortunately placed ads (via mefi). I dunno if they’re all real or not, but some of them are pretty funny. It’s worth a little gander to brighten up your friday morning.
And lastly, one of the most widely known facts about Japan is that their love for vending machines extends all the way to being able to buy used schoolgirl panties from vending machines. This was pretty much the third fact I knew about Japan in my life, first I learned that it had the samurais, then I learned it had the ninjas, and then I learned it had the panty machines. Well, this myth has been circumstantially verified as being true (via ectoplasmosis) - but only because there was a law passed saying they were illegal. Disappointing? Yes. I’d like to know for sure - which in this age of the intermatrix you’d think would not be a difficulty. But so far no concrete proof.
Oh, and just in case you don’t notice - I updated that Fosse, Walk It Out post with the original video of Gwen Verndon. No manipulation took place, it’s unchanged. I have no idea how the universe makes this stuff happen.
