The Distant Future. The Distant Future.

According to this, we are only 6 years away from the chronological setting of RoboCop:



Amazingly, Detroit is ahead of schedule on the dystopian future front:

Skynet Daycare II: Road Trip

So given my post from a few weeks ago, and my wife's love of strollers, how can I NOT buy one of these?

The Bomo Baby Carriage is essentially a Roomba with a seat for a baby on its back. There's no way this'll ever go wrong!

It'll follow you around with the kid in tow, avoiding obstacles as it goes. It can also be set to rock the baby to sleep. But the real brilliance is in manual mode, which lets the kid control his or her own destiny by driving using the pedals and steering wheel. It claims to still avoid obstacles in this mode, but I don't know if it senses the top of the stairs as an obstacle.

If there was actually a Roomba in the bottom that would be even sweeter. Although it seems like we're getting close to this pretty fast:

(L-R): Future Baby Chair, Future Roomba, Future Baby Chair

Very Cool