Technabob » dine http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:30:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dining in the Sky: Hope You Wore Your Parachute http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/30/dining-in-the-sky-hope-you-wore-your-parachute/ http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/30/dining-in-the-sky-hope-you-wore-your-parachute/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:40:58 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/30/dining-in-the-sky-hope-you-wore-your-parachute/ This strange restaurant combines the delights of dining with a thrill of well, a thrill ride. You’ll travel about 150 feet into the sky before you chow down on a gourmet meal prepared mid-air.

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Dinner In The Sky uses a mobile crane to lift its entire 22-seat open-air dining room over city streets all over Europe. Before they can leave the earth, diners are strapped into their seats with a four-point harness as if they were about to get onto a ride at Great America.

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The whole setup is available for rent starting from about 7900 € (a little more than $10,000 USD) for a day in the operator’s homeland of Belgium. They’ll even bring the dining room to other countries for a bit more money. Those prices don’t include electricity or catering either, so this is clearly an experience reserved for the filthy rich.

My only recommendation… be sure to hit the bathroom BEFORE you take off.

]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/30/dining-in-the-sky-hope-you-wore-your-parachute/feed/ 10 Talking Plate Tells You When to Stop Eating http://technabob.com/blog/2006/12/26/talking-plate-tells-you-when-to-stop-eating/ http://technabob.com/blog/2006/12/26/talking-plate-tells-you-when-to-stop-eating/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:07:39 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/2006/12/26/talking-plate-tells-you-when-to-stop-eating/ Find yourself eating too much these holidays? Perhaps this wacky new invention will help you keep your New Year’s resolution to cut down.

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A Ukranian scientist has developed a prototype of a plate that automatically tells you when you’ve eaten more food than you’re supposed to. A palm-sized computer provides the brains for the system, and says “Where is your will power?” when you’ve hit your consumption limit. I don’t think we’ll be seeing these on store shelves any time soon.

[via AVING]

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