View Full Version : First-Generation IRL Kino



HewenttoJared
10-26-2011, 12:37 PM
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/video-japans-new-ball-shaped-drone-wows-crowds-tokyo

I'm 90% sure that I NEED this.

Roadhawg
10-26-2011, 01:02 PM
That is cool

Just the facts
10-26-2011, 02:05 PM
Umm, watch the movie 'Real Genius' that came out in 1985. You will see a young Val Kilmer playing with one of these in his dorm room. That was 26 years ago.

You can see it at the 1:56 point of this video (or as luck would have it - in the screen capture below)

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MadMonk
10-26-2011, 03:02 PM
That's awesome. Can you imagine the fun you could have late at night in Roswell, NM?

RadicalModerate
10-26-2011, 03:19 PM
Or at that Naval Installation just outside Honolulu, proper?

(Thank goodness the inventors of that marvel had their political priorities realigned back about four years before "Roswell" . . .)

HewenttoJared
10-26-2011, 03:20 PM
I would probably decorate it first.
http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/2/23/IT-O_negtd.jpg

RadicalModerate
10-26-2011, 03:27 PM
I'm thinkin' camo on top and blue--interspersed with white--on the bottom.
Depending, of course on the Virtual Terrain...or Searain . . .

MadMonk
10-26-2011, 04:00 PM
I would probably decorate it first.

HA! I KNEW that thing reminded me of something. The sound effects would also be a must.

jn1780
10-26-2011, 04:05 PM
I'll wait for the Kino 2 or 3 thats at least 50 percent smaller. Kind of hard to spy on people with the first generation. Lol

HewenttoJared
10-26-2011, 04:22 PM
I want to see this version in a movie floating "inconspicuously" in a room as the evil-doers discuss their plot without seeing the giant, humming sphere 4 feet away.