OwO
Just what the japanes elderly need, a heavy battery powered contraption strapped to their waist to be more stable. I’ve also heard in Tokyo that everyone is always 5ft apart from one another, plenty of room to be whipping a pseudo tail around.
Just uhh…give it a few wheels, optimally in the front…like make it 4 wheels and they can grab 2 handles with brakes to stabilize on slopes. They might not even have to use the tail too much
…oh…that‘s just a walker, isn‘t it?
Oh that rural Tokyo, where the rice fields go on further than the eye can see. This would be super helpful navigating those plank bridges.
I can think of another demographic that would like this…
It’s Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application
I was a bit surprised because I had never heard of that research group, but apparently they are not from the engineering department, but from media design.
Here is some more Info, if anyone is curious. But it seems more like a concept paper, than an extra prototype.
I’d get 5 so I can work without hands.
Be careful or you’re gonna end up fighting Spiderman.
Can I… uhhm… get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too… U know… Just for… uhhm… balancing purposes…
(‘~‘; )
👉👈
Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing
Are the wings flyable ?
Have you seen how big a hang glider is? That’s roughly what a human-mass creature needs to fly.
looks like human godzilla
All the transspecies creatures here: “want!”
transspecies creatures
Furries. Just call them furries.
No. Some furries might also be transspecies but they are two entirely different things.
There are furries, and there are furries who take things too far.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Please don’t comment again until you’ve actually done some research.
lol I know enough that i stopped doing commissions for furries over a decade ago because there were so many who took it too far and then got way too serious like this ^
what about the added weight of the tail? I dont believe elderly got good knees
Yeah we should make it more like the rear-half of a centaur
atp isn’t it just wheelchair but legs
so legchair
It remeber me an painting of Patrick Woodroffe
Now that is some kickass artwork
They got the guy three sets of robohands but couldn’t figure out some mechanolegs for him?
Same for this Tail, there are better system to solve postural problems, walking difficulties and other physical issues. How will you simply sit down with this tail? Or precisely in Japan, entering in an Subway with it? They often invent overcomplicated solutions without need, for easy to solve problems, above solving it only tangential and even adding more problems.
Tails only cars. Obviously. Perfectly economical solution to tack a whole other car for the rich people with theriandroid tails to have space.
Oh goodness, it’s mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.
Just a pitch: Tail can easily be detached and works as a walking cane.
I do petty every physically sensative individual that has to take overcrowded public transport though
Ideally it would work as a seat that automatically braces under the user if they fall backwards, or just is able to touch the ground and help the user not lose balance, then revert to walking-balancing mode when the user stands up again.
It genuinely could have beneficial use for people with mobility problems, it’s too bad these uses are going to be utterly drowned out by furries looking for new accessories to feel unique.
Is this a return to monke meme made manifest?
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I’ll.take this.
You already have the nerves there, and it’s quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
Comes later.
Can’t we just find a way to upgrade the earth animals instead?
We can have real furries that way
I don’t think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we don’t need to make them sapient as well.
Nah, let’s do it.
Better to have practice right now than to commit the same mistakes when we meet aliens out there.
This planet is our cradle. Our place of learning. Our tutorial level.
My so-called government just canceled nearly every space probe and scientific endeavor planned for the next decade, de-orbited two climate monitoring satellites for no reason other than performative politics, put a stop to windmill energy farms, effectively pardoned one of the worst sex traffickers in the world to avoid being found complicit, armed a genocide, and the supreme court is deciding on how legal it is to arrest someone for not being white.
I’mma say naw dog. The only way I could possibly condone uplifting any non-human creatures at this point is if they’re designed to surpass us in every way and utterly overpower our species almost immediately so that we don’t make it out into the stars. We are a scourge, a pox upon our world. I didn’t even get into factory farming and what we’re doing every day to animals for profit.
I say this as someone who grew up watching Star Trek and reading Sagan. The stars are not for us. We are the same horrible primates who smashed each others heads in with rocks for a million years before we discovered agriculture and money. Same creature, more complicated excuses to smash heads.
Ok cancer cell. Go whine in your pathetic self esteem and let us humanity fuck yeah followers to bask in our glorious species.
The stars are ours for the taking and xenos should tremble. A safe galaxy is a human galaxy.
Upgrade?
Have we even seriously tried opening dialogue with elephant or whale tribes?
I know we jacked off a bunch of dolphins we raised in captivity, but, like… Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
Yes actually, we’ve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.
We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated “terms” but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.
Dude, we jack off about first contact math abd how we would talk to aliens. Seti was(is?) A thing.
If we cant talk to fuckers whose antique bones my grandmother decorated her room with, whose grandmother read by the light of the burning flesh of? We have no god damn right to be calling ourselves intelligent or civilized as a species.
Just because we could talk to a whale wouldn’t make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.
I said upgrade.
Let’s make their bodies more enjoyable for us to see. If we never meet aliens, let’s make them.
But that’s not an upgrade, it would be a lateral mov. Maube there are whales or eleohsnts with the same weird kinks as us; we don’t know: never asked.
And gave them LSD! Funded by NASA.
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you “I am taking part in this clinical trial” and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
Yup. That’s the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that you’d be sitting on the tail).
Nobody wants to do that because men are thirsty.
Hahahaha insert of the day 😂
I’m not sitting improperly… It’s the patriarchy!
true as a man, they thirst for my booty when all I care for is good back posture
As a five five man I can assure you that I do do this and the only ones thirsty for that are my cats seeking ont my blood.
