Star Trek Automatic Doors

Air powered star trek style door.

Star trek automatic doors.

It s about time we fixed that. I always wanted a piece of star trek and the disney monorail in my house and one thing they have in common is that they both have automatic sliding doors. It would be the perfect most geek ified entryway for my bedroom. One of the first pieces of technology to come out of star trek was the automatic door.

The automatic sliding doors that we re familiar with from star trek are way smarter than. Walk right into the door get stuck in the door have the door slammed in your face it gets funnier and funnier with every clip. Thinkgeek star trek electronic door chime motion sensitive can be mounted on either side of a door officially licensed star trek collectible 4 6 out of 5 stars 517 wireless door open chime doorbell sensor chime 600 feet range 5 volume levels including mute 58 melodies chimes led indicator for home office shops classroom. I was still in school and still lived at home with my mother in new orleans.

After all here in the boring non futuristic present we experience automated doors in the most mundane places like gas stations shopping malls and the like. Automatic sliding doors are idiots. I always wanted a piece of star trek and the disney monorail in my house and one thing they have in common is that they both have automatic sliding doors. They re functional but they re idiots.

It would be very easy to assume that the doors on the sets of star trek in all its incarnations were automated. The star trek dream of having a sliding door always open at exactly the right time for you to pass through it making you feel like some kind of omnipotent deity is suddenly very close to reality.