Your days of being stranded on a deserted island and having to write “HELP!” in the sand by hand in the vain hope that a plane passing over will see it and rescue you are over.

Ivan Miranda has designed a robotic printer that writes massive missives in the sand, and it looks very cool in action.

For now these beasts are not available commercially, but hopefully he’ll be on Shark Tank soon, and the sand-writing revolution the world has been begging for will finally be here.

The revolution will not be hand-written

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