When you were a kid, did you ever pretend you were a crane while eating your breakfast cereal? Or as an adult, maybe tried to goad a toddler into eating something by acting like a robot, making mechanical noises as you maneuvered the spoon toward tightly pursed lips crowned with a frowning baby brow? Or wish, while watching three seasons’ worth of Game of Thrones in two days, that someone would just spoon feed you while you lay there? Well wish no more, a brighter future awaits. A future in which graceful gleaming machines will gently feed us the finest sushi or delicate French pastries while we lounge obesely in a recliner watching the Food Network for more ideas for things to eat. We just need a little more product development first.
The Breakfast Machine
Just a few bugs to work out here. Bonus points for the punk rock design ethos. For details on how to build your own, including important early steps like “Spend Too Much Money On Parts” and “Don’t Actually Get Fed”, see Simone Giertz’s Motherboard piece. She has more cool projects on her website.
Robotic Arm MK II
If this is the “Mark II”, we’re not sure if we want to see what happened with the “Mark I”. And we for DAMN sure don’t want to see the Mark III, which we assume reverses the concept and eats the subject.
Tomatan: The Tomato Feeding Robot
No, it doesn’t feed tomatoes, it feeds you tomatoes. While you run. Because you never know when you’re gonna need to eat a tomato while you’re running.
Early Concept Design: 1936 Eating Machine
Ahead of his time in so many other ways, Charlie Chaplin pointed the way in the 1936 film Modern Times. It turns out corn as always been bad for you.
Bonus: Cat Feeding Robot
As is typical of cats, they’ve made sure that humans have already worked out the bugs in the version specifically for cats.
