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Friday, November 26, 2010, 3:36 PM
technology makes people lazy!
Seen people riding the machines below around Changi Airport?
There's another similar product upcoming..
The prototype of a personal mobility machine is better and more compact..
Best part: hand-free control!
Don't it makes life easy but at the same time makes us lazy?!
These products are not something new, but if they become cheap and affordable to all, I think the future generations will become like those featured in Wall-E!
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| LAZY! |
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| OBESE! due to lack of exercise! |
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| Short and fat hands and legs (which loses their functionality. They can barely walk anymore!) |
With cars, lifts and others, we are already so lazy to exercise (avoid climbing the stairs, stop at the nearest places so that we will walk minimally). Wouldn't it be worst if we don't even need to walk around to get from place to place anymore?!
Scenario: travel on a personal mobility machine to the bus stop.. board the bus (handicap friendly buses so we don't have to get down from the machine).. reach the nearest bus stop from destination.. travel to reach destination.. continue to travel around with the machines..
How much calories are we burning then? Reduced calories burnt but food intake remain = weight gain!!
And as time goes by, we'll all be obese.. Very obese!
images from: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2002Winter/ibot.html, http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/entertainment/the_assistant/?p=36, http://ohio-thoughts.blogspot.com/, http://br1anv.tumblr.com/post/312468970/wall-e-i-loved-everything-about-this-movie.
credits to CZ for sharing the youtube link =)
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