The Girlfriend was quite taken with something I showed her yesterday and thought I needed to share it with my other loyal readers, so here you go, the very first Simple Tricks and Nonsense Reader Request:
You’re looking at a 20-story-high, automated car-storage facility built by the Volkswagen company in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Click the photo to enlarge it.) It’s apparently part of an automotive theme park where, among other things, you can buy one of the new cars stored in this tower. After you place your order, the robo-garage retrieves the requested car and brings it down for you without any human intervention. All very high-tech and futuristicky. Reminds me of the factory scene in Minority Report. Wild stuff.
Credit goes to Boing Boing for bringing my attention to this, as well as Boing Boing’s source for this item, The Cool Hunter. Click here for a couple more photos of this amazing (if gimmicky) monument to the car industry…
I think this is so cool. We may have to take the tour when we make it to Germany. 🙂
This is pretty cool. It’s like one of those rotating vending machines that always seems to be full of rotten apples. Or perhaps lemons, in this case.
I’d like to see one of those crane and hook arcade games where you try to grab a car.
Anne, I’m up for a trip to the Autostadt. 🙂
Robert, you made me think of the little green guys in the movie Toy Story: “The Claaaaaaawwwwwww!”
(If you haven’t seen it, give it a try. Yes, it’s a cartoon, but it’s made for grown-ups who loved their toys as children in the ’70s and ’80s. Fully half the jokes go right over the top of kids’ heads…)