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Re: Hikaru Systems unveils new product
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Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:06:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
> Hikaru Systems was at the 11th annual Urban Survival Convention in Tokyo 4
> this weekend. They gave the public a glimpse of their newest product: The
> Battle Interface Unit. A celebrity Spaceman was on hand to demonstrate some
> of it's features. The user will ride comfortably inside and interface with
> the unit. The interface level is customized according to the degree of the
> user's wetwire. Full integration allows for seamless action. Think and the
> unit will carry out an action.
I really like the way that came out. The brown canopy helps
dramatically, but what really struck me was how much the thermal
sticker panel (Insectoids? UFO?) adds to the whole shebang. I'm
a big fan of ships that "fly by instruments"--implying that the
eyes are less trustworthy in combat than the interface--so I think
this is a spiffy! core module. I do feel it needs a bit more
circuitry/electronica inside the module itself, though I know
that's hard within the confines of the round canopy.
> Having no weapons or means of movement of it's own, the unit is designed to
> be the core for 3rd party development. Modification possibilities appear to
> be endless. With the proper additions the Unit can tackle any environment.
> Land, air, sea, space, city. It is not known whether Hikaru Systems itself
> will create extensions for the unit or not but as of press time several
> companies and organizations have already mentioned great interest and even
> development.
I presume the 1x1 headlight bricks along the, um, "fuselage"
represent standard interface junctures or somesuch? If so,
why not take it further, and redesign it as a standard module
with Technic pins or some other locking mechanism, a la the
fighter pilot bays from "Space: Above and Beyond" (which I
still feel is, technically, one of the best SF shows ever
created in spite of any failures of scripting). The module
as a whole looks like it would be very smart inserted into
a chassis as is.
I've fiddled with this idea, but only using the X-Wing style
canopy, in part because I can make the module itself square
for insertion into ships and vehicles directly. I've never
tried for the butterfly effect your module uses so well--the
hinging of the rear section really adds to the wrap-around
"neurality" of the whole thing. Now, if only they made all
of those lower parts in tan....;)
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2368
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> LMNWYT
N? :)
best
Lindsay
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| I originally came up with the idea for this late last summer while waiting in my car. I was really bored and actually started writing down different products that my fake company could make. On the windshield were these tiny bugs that had kind of a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Hikaru Systems was at the 11th annual Urban Survival Convention in Tokyo 4 this weekend. They gave the public a glimpse of their newest product: The Battle Interface Unit. A celebrity Spaceman was on hand to demonstrate some of it's features. The (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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