Making road construction faster, easier, and completed on time: The Road Printer

I can certainly appreciate the hard work that most road construction workers do. Rain or shine, hot or cold, those guys and gals are out there in elements that most of us simple hate, doing hard physical labor. But as technology advances, we’re going to find more mundane and physical jobs taken out of the mix, replaced with robotic counterparts. Such is the scenario the “Road Printer” depicts.

The nifty thing about this little space lander-esque device is that it packs everything inside needed to go all artsy on the streets. With local paint storage, big buttons — so big you could push them with your boot in fact — and a big solar panel atop it’s head, the Road Printer makes quite a case for itself. The solar panel in particular is a nice touch, making it fully autonomous and self suficient. Well, that is until the paint runs out and the skies go dark.

When we eventually see such a device, look for bigger cities and those with plenty of excess cash to pick these up first with smaller towns falling in somewhere down the timeline. You know, even though I’m not part of any street department or local municipal services, I wouldn’t mind getting a Road Printer and doing some crafty things on my driveway. A modern Picaso I am…

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Industrial Floor Lamp gives your apartment that street feeling…

Looking to give your little box called home a touch of the streets? You could hire a homeless man to loiter in your kitchen? For some, the smell and inherent dangers aren’t worth the “rough and tough” image. A safer alternative can be had with the Industrial Floor Lamp. Feature a….lamp made out of…..you guess again…a street lamp, this particular lighting fixture in your house will throw visitors off guard with it’s hulking mass and raw, nitty gritty appearance. Of course, depending on the bulb used, brightness can be a pleasing evening reading glow to an ultra “everyone that walks in the door is a deer” bright. The decision is entirely up to you. The physical appearance alone is awesome, geeky, and deserves to be in my living room. The $2,400 street price (pun…tried not to include it but I just couldn’t resist) means I’ll be forever looking at it as I can think of several dozen other things I’d rather spend said dollars on.

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