Toilets are in many ways unsung heroes of the modern world. Yes, it’s true that antibiotics, vaccines, and other medical technology have saved millions of lives but, by separating sewage from your drinking water, the humble toilet has arguably saved many more – and even launched modern statistics and data visualization.
Quick history geek out. In 1854, there was a major cholera outbreak in London, England. People dying by the thousands.
Enter John Snow, data and science geek – and eventual toilet evangelist. He invented the “dot map” to visualize all of the cholera deaths…on a map, which showed a cluster next to a specific well. It turned out that sewage had been leaking into that well – and, well, getting everyone sick. Enter the toilet – and no more shitty situations like cholera.
OK. Enough history geek-ing. What does this have to do with drones?
Well, not much. Except two things.
First: Same Design. If you look at a toilet from the 19th century and one from the 21st century, they haven’t changed much at all. It’s still the same bowl design with some sort of water reservoir or flush system. And your current drone? Well, it’s the same fixed hub and spoke design from 15 years ago (which is basically the same thing as the 19th century).
Second: Fixed Design. The toilet you use in the morning is the same toilet you use in the afternoon and the same toilet you use in the evening. But what if your toilet can’t or won’t take any of your shit? What if you need more capacity in the morning than you need in the evening? What if you need a way more comfortable toilet seat because extenuating circumstances mean you need more than 30 minutes? The problem is: because the toilet design is fixed, the toilet cannot change to meet your evolving needs over the day. You’d need to buy a different toilet for each need.
Your current drone is the same. Its design is fixed. If you need to do a scouting operation in the morning and then in the afternoon you need to lift a payload of 10lbs, then you need to buy and use two drones. One drone for the scouting operation and another for the 10lbs payload.
How do you avoid a shitty situation like that? Enter the Modovolo Lift. Hours of flight time; extremely low cost; and it has a modular endlessly configurable design. You link Lift Pods together for thrust and Utility Pods for…useful things like cameras and 10lbs payload capacity. Need longer flight time? More payload. Just add Lift Pods.
