For all of you that wish you could own one of the cool dead startup gadgets that gets written about here, then Dead Startup Toys will do it for you - well, kinda.
Toy replicas of failed companies including Juicero and Theranos, though selling out fast as the Coolest Cooler and Jibo are already gone. There's a small "bio" of each product as you click through. Nothing from uBeam or Energous there though, sad to say. Will June or Sunflower make it there? I'm interested to see their next toys.
The group making these is really interesting - MSCHF - I think this might be my favorite thing they've done:
In February 2021 the group purchased a Boston Dynamics robot dog, and mounted a paintball gun on it. The robot was used in a live performance that allowed users of the MSCHF app to control the robot and its paintball gun. After MSCHF publicly criticized the potential use of robotic dogs by police forces, Boston Dynamics released a statement criticizing the use of the robot in an artwork
Welcome back, just saw you were writing again from a link discussing another power at a distance startup "WiGL". Interesting to read uBeam has finally gone.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if a model Hyperloop car and/or tunnel might be a future toy. I've read a claim that creating the high vacuum needed is virtually impossible, as well as other problems.
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