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Jul 7, 2010

Viral Prosthetics

Ingenious

Motorized shoes – for people too lazy to walk, or people who are disabled… and not able to walk…

…the ranks of whom are swelling by the day, on account of the lazy ones, attempting to use motorized shoes.

Brilliant. A solution looking for a problem that creates the problem it is designed to solve.

Reminds me of something actually – not sure what, but I think it’s got something to do with beer.

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