Lauren Bernat - The Wii Fit Girl » underground street http://laurenbernat.com The Wii Fit Girl Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:38:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Will Delivery Trucks be a Thing of the Past? http://laurenbernat.com/2009/08/will-delivery-trucks-be-a-thing-of-the-past/ http://laurenbernat.com/2009/08/will-delivery-trucks-be-a-thing-of-the-past/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:11:33 +0000 Lauren Bernat http://laurenbernat.com/?p=1053 Imagine your new pair of shoes (or whatever you fancy for that matter) being delivered not by the big brown truck, but via a special box that travels through our sewer system. What?!

Phillip Hermes has come up with a conceptual project he calls the “Urban Mole.”   He believes that we (society) should use the existing sewer system to transport packages with a robotic messenger through a series of tubes.

The effect for all of us besides the loss of jobs :( Well, it would help with traffic in major cities and have an effect on pollution.

It’s funny because I have always thought about the system of tubes and containers the bank uses when you go through the drive-thru, wondering how it can be applied on a larger scale. My mind never thought of something like this!

Check out the pics below:

mole-1

mole-2

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mole-5

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