Sketch-A-Move

[Jessterw]

Now this is something I wish I had as a kid...

HotWheels that follow a path you draw on their surface.

http://www.lwk.dk/sketch_a_move/sketch_content.html

Be sure to check out the video.

[az]

Very cool, and designed by women (I'm not saying women can't do this sort of thing, it's just that they rarely do!)

AZ

[Jon P. Inghram]

Too bad they're actually just regular r/c toys.

[Jessterw]

I think r/c was only used to 'start' the cars, though I could be mistaken.

[Kooldino]

Cool!

[Jon P. Inghram]

Watch the one where it does a loop with a ramp, when it lands it spins out a bit, recovers, and then does the loop again. Unless it's got gryos and accelerometers to provide inertial guidance, it's gotta be remotely controlled.

[Jon P. Inghram]

BTW, the design doesn't appear to be by a woman, but in fact a marketing person, who as we all know are sexless amoral androids designed by large corporations to control the masses.

I like the "But Sketch-a-move is not fantasy - it is fully realistic and feasible technically:" quote, reminds of of the Moller Skycar... they've both got an odd definition of "realistic" and "feasible."

[Paddy]

Looks cool, but I think that there is some external input as they can choose when to start the cars moving.

[Fat Tone]

As the page says, the brief was to come up with a concept. There are far too many irregularities in the motion to believe this actually works...doesn't mean it couldn't though