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World's highest-tech roller coaster opens this summer
Universal Studios Florida in Orlando is calling Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit "the world's most high-tech rollercoaster." And maybe this Maurer Söhne-designed coaster is, with its user-selectable music system via a personal "guest interface panel," flashing LEDs everywhere, and 14 digital video cameras recording all of the mayhem over its 3,800 feet of track for your own personal posterity (and purchase).
We especially like those unique 6-seat X-CARs with stadium seating an extra short wheeled bases for tight maneuvers, the 167-foot vertical lift at the beginning of the ride, and the six "near-miss encounters" with the other four two-car trains that will be careening around the track at the same time.
We're not just being company stooges (DVICE is part of NBC Universal, but nobody told us to write this) when we say that this looks like a blast. Opens this summer.
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Universal Studios Florida, via BB Gadgets and Wikipedia
By Mr. Gumsandals at 3:30 PM ON 06/09/09
I had a slow day once a few years ago and to fill the void I blogged about putting a roller coaster in downtown Miami-- in its streets, up its buildings, over the water. This is that post: http://miamivisionblogarama.blogspot.com/2006/07/arc-de-fun_07.html. My blog was primarily getting ideas out into the ether so they could be discussed and hopefully become real. Nothing happened, of course, but the idea still has merit.
By SGT-T at 8:27 PM ON 06/09/09
holy shyte when do we get the video of this
By Internet Marketing Guru at 2:06 PM ON 06/17/09
I'm surprised it has taken this long, and imo this is not anything special.
What about the cameras that capture your picture, have a kiosk as your exit the ride that allows you use twitter to tweet your pic? Free promotion for the park.
What about a live web stream of the ride?
What about a feed into Facebook?
The ability for riders to post comments live, moderated forum?
Geo location of the ride?
User controlled rides? Like a voting system, the train riders vote on option 1, 2 or 3...the best vote wins and the coaster does different things.
The list goes on and on....boy are there ideas out there and the technology already exists.
The Internet is moving too slow for me!!!!
By atergo at 7:34 PM ON 07/10/09
How about a roller coaster made out of transparent aluminum? LOL
Maybe not. But plexiglass would be cool. An almost invisible track...
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