Ok, so this is completely off-topic but here, in video form, is a preliminary attempt to answer a crucial question of our age: Why not use drones to cut hair?
After watching the video, I think you will be able to see why.
Here’s the short version:
Your future hairdresser is here. pic.twitter.com/KiXfG61ZN8
— Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz) June 9, 2016
And the full video:
Well, you win some, you lose some. But hey, just because the technology isn’t there yet doesn’t mean that it won’t ever be there. I don’t doubt that someday, in our lifetime, we will all get our hair cut by hairdresser robot drones.
That is, if we don’t get murdered by gun-shooting drones first.
Oh, and all you MGTOWs out there waiting impatiently for the sexy robot ladies who will make the real ladies obsolete? You may want to hold off on your purchases until they work out all the glitches in the technology, lest you end up like the mannikin in the video above.
Robo-crop?
best joke I can make
The Perm-inator?
Nope, James wins that one.
Hey, this is a great new excuse for those of us who are somewhat follically challenged!
Well, they tried. They failed miserably, but they tried.
Gonna speak as a cosmetology student.
Even if this were perfected, you still might not be able to get your hair exactly like you want. A lot of factors come into play: hair type, services that have already been performed on you, facial shape, and lifestyle, to name a few.
A consultation is crucial, and a stylist who cares will do infinitely better than shears duct taped to a fancy RC toy.
‘Tis not a future I can see unless we’re going to be a second North Korea and have a catalogue of hairstyles we’re allowed.
Drone cuts are misaaaaaandry!
(That red wig is kind of fabulous, though.)
Red hairs are *alway* fabulous.
Sure, you put guns and stuff on a quad copter…but how will you get it close enough to your enemies without getting noticed? A question you’d think noone would ever ask, but its answered already.
Dahir Insaat, a company(?) that does…who the fuck knows, they seemingly just make cgi mock ups to try to scam investors. Anyway, since they already solved the problems of labor costs for restaurants and supermarkets by replacing them with exponentially higher costs for robotics and real estate, ventured into the world of drone combat.
OT: Laura Ingraham waxes rhapsodic about Trump’s “magic sauce”.
Somehow I am still keeping breakfast down.
Simone Giertz is the best.
@Taffer: My older son showed me a few of those videos, but that quadcopter one was definitely…. something. Dahir Insaat seems like a company that will make a presentation video for any hare-brained idea that can be dreamed up, as long as robots are involved.
Re: the video: I watched it and my younger son heard it but didn’t see it, so he asked what happened. I told him it went horribly wrong, and he said apprehensively, “Did they die?” Doesn’t seem like it would be far-fetched to ask that question…
Adding my voice to the fabulous talk. It’s like some visual kei stuff with the fringe. I’m about it
My kiddo and I needed the silly. 😀 Awesome video.
Bit off topic but if there are any Mammotheers in the Boston area then you may be interested in my mate’s thing:
http://www.womensselfdefenseboston.com/womensselfdefenseboston-campussafety.html
I can think of another more useful one for MRAs…
Castration drone!
@Cupcakes Can we not do the ‘incite violence’ thing please?
@fishy goat
Ok, I was joking. Sorry for causing offence.
Reminds me of the Suck’N’Cut from Wayne’s World: “Stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it!! It’s sucking my will to live!!”
Except that the Suck’N’Cut worked a lot better, of course.
Anybody else remember the hair-cutting machine from the movie version of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang?
Okay that Dahir Insaat video was hilariously bad. What kind of bullets cause planes to automatically fireball with one hit? Since when has *any* rapid-fire weapon been as accurate as seen as the video? How the hell is the drone remaining perfectly stable with all that recoil? When the anti-air defenses finally start working, why are they so useless against a stationary target? If such a superweapon existed, don’t you think it would be a short time before twitch-trigger anti-drone defenses would exist, thus rendering both this new technology *and* commercial airliners prohibitively risky?
I mean, I’m not that knowledgeable about, or a fan of, military hardware. But even I can spot a dozen things which are probably wrong with this video. Are they really that ignorant, or do they think they can sell it to people who are?
That quadcopter-of-terror video is a hoot. The commentary is spot on. Yeah, I’m sure you could just snap some blades in, and get it up in the air, quite unnoticed by a radar station with everything from fighter jets to stealth bombers ready to scramble. Uh-huh.
The baby quadcopter-of-terror IS kinda cute, though, in its evil deadly way…
@Snowberry:
It doesn’t have to be an either-or, I think.
>Look at just the first still
>immediately cringe in fear
I’m surprised the scissors didn’t end up jammed in the mannequin’s face.
@ taffer
The daftest thing about the ‘quadcopter’ is that it doesn’t do anything that the AC-130 Spectre hasn’t been doing since 1969 (and the Spectre arrives already assembled)
https://youtu.be/1cfCZ3y4M0E
Somewhere once, I saw a patent illustration for a device that looked like a colander which was placed on the head. It pulled up the hair somehow and then singed it off? Like a bowl cut from hell.
I set my hair on fire once. It isn’t a pleasant smell.