The $1.35 million mech (and how to insure it)
Mechs aren’t just for video games, anime and tabletop gaming anymore. Suidobashi Heavy Industries now has a mobile suit named Kuratas available for – and, let’s be honest, you’d pay anything to have this – the reasonable asking price of $1.35 million. That doesn’t include extras like cup holder, in-cockpit phone adapter or pleather interior.
As you would expect, the robot does come with a weapons system – albeit a non-lethal one. Using “The Smile Shot,” a smile-activated facial recognition weapons system, the mech can fire water bottle rockets or use its twin gatling guns to shoot 6,000 BB bullets a minute. That may not be lethal, but it sure sounds like it smarts.
We contacted State Farm to find out how much the insurance on this bad boy would cost us, but it wasn’t able to give us a quote over the phone, passing us on to the Insurance Information Institute (III).Continue reading The $1.35 million mech (and how to insure it)The $1.35 million mech (and how to insure it) originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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