This is the first project I’m going to get Matt to backward engineer next week when I return. It’s just a few strips of stainless and some infrared hocus pokus when all said and done.
It’s a new breed of automatic sliding door from Tanaka in Japan. ( I don’t think it’s the tool people Tanaka, but the site is in Japanese.)
It’s designed to open to the approximate shape of the person, car or whatever just so happens to try and go through it. It’s also supposed to keep unwanted air pollutants out whilst keeping wood in’t hole (apologies to any hardcore lanky twangers out there).
Watch the video if you don’t believe me.
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Comments
Michael Wagner
on 7/9/2005, 3:19 am
Cool! But there’s a delay until the door opens. You get the sense that, if you walked towards the door too fast, it wouldn’t open on time.
Also, did you understand why it failed when the taller guy tried to use it?
Michael
Paul Woodhouse
on 7/9/2005, 10:18 am
Well I suppose that’s just the price you have to pay for it looking kind of nifty.
Surely you don’t want it to work properly?
hugh macleod
on 11/9/2005, 8:22 am
It’s a neat idea, but I get the feeling there’s just too many bits and pieces to go wrong.
Paul Woodhouse
on 16/9/2005, 8:03 am
I fear for unsuspecting punters being speared like a water melon being dropped onto some railings.
Then again, I could be wrong.
Sergey
on 17/1/2006, 12:06 pm
The idea is very itnteresting. But it seems enough raw.