Mintpass Tank rolls out the beats

Wouldn’t it be great if your speakers would follow you around the house when you’re doing work? Well you’ve got two options for that; put speakers in every room of your house, or hope Mintpass makes this robot and buy one.

Labeled on their “Select” page as Mint Robot #3, the “Tank” would pretty much be smart speakers on wheels. Smart because of a few things. The first is the fact that it follows you around using a pyroelectric sensor that senses your body heat and follows you around. Down-side is that if your body heat looks like someone else’s body heat, it might start following them around instead. Next cool, smart thing it would do is when their are multiple Tanks, they would sync up and each would play a different part of the song, creating a surround sound effect. An endless tank tread system combined with an ultrasonic sensor keep it from running into walls or your ankles.

All-in-all this is a really cool idea but the sad thing is that it is still an idea. Being listed on the Mintpass Select page means that it is one of my conceptual ideas that the company has thought up of. Some more humorous then anything, such as the Mintpass Sputnik.Now theirs nothing that says it has to stay an idea. But lets just say that if the Tank were mass produced, I’d have two or three of these things trying to follow me downstairs because I forgot they were still there.

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