>> that Sky hook thing sure would be nice! Let me know if you find one!
Totally!
One made-for-TV version of Dune gave Baron Harkonen a kind of anti-gravity backpack. I want one of THOSE!
Speaking of science fiction, there is a novel where you could create clunky body doubles and sned a copy of your brain into them. After 24 hours, you could upload the memories back into yourself, but the body double itself would dissolve. And you could craft very different body shapes if desired. ("Kiln People", 2002, by David Brin)
I want a temporary dachshund body with about 3 pairs of legs plus some very long arms with hands that could handle a weeder and pull weeds and dig holes for transplants. Its eyes would be so low to the ground that it would not HAVE to stoop to weed or sow or transplant.
And it should have wide feet so it did not compress the soil if it had to set one pair of legs inside the raised bed.
