Futurama Transport Tubes Are Real…for Burgers
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Good New…Zealand, everyone! A burger joint down under, inspired by the Matt Groening cartoon, has created a series of transparent tubes designed to transport your burgers from kitchen to table at 85 miles per hour, literalizing the concept of fast food. Oh, and since the slim, oil-cooked potato slices that normally accompany such things will arrive too, you really can see a Fry use this transportation of the future. (Though the non-embeddable video strikes me as curiously un-futuristic.)
In a distinctly Professor Farnsworthian style, there are also potentially dangerous side effects:
“A cannister at that speed could take someone’s hand off…We certainly don’t want to be known for that.”
Ah, the double-edged sword of fame.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist