Simone Luna Louise is a young Swedish inventor, maker, robotics enthusiast, TV host, and professional YouTuber who tweeted recently, “I turned a tampon dispenser into a dog food dispenser. Welcome to my very cumbersome recycling program, https://youtu.be/BXQf-yyRzM4’’
Giertz brands herself as “the queen of crappy robots” and runs a YouTube channel where she employs deadpan humor to demonstrate mechanical robots of her own creation to automate everyday tasks; despite working from a purely mechanical standpoint, they often fall short of practical usefulness, for comic effect.
Her creations have included an alarm clock that slaps the user, a lipstick applier, and one that shampoos the user’s hair. When building her robots, Giertz does not aim to make something useful, instead coming up with excessive solutions to potentially automatable situations. Giertz showcased several of these robots on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
In 2017, she hosted the comedy TV show Manick with Nisse Hallberg on Swedish TV6. The basic premise of the show is that the hosts invent funny creative solutions to everyday problems.
Around this time Giertz had abandoned the concept of the “crappy robots”, later explaining that it was no longer something she wanted to do, as she felt that the joke had played out.
On April 30, 2018, Giertz announced via YouTube that she had been diagnosed with a noncancerous brain tumor. After surgery to remove the grade I meningioma on May 30, 2018, she has continued to post humorous and upbeat accounts of her post-surgery progress, including photos of her “potential super-villain scar’’ and a public address video on her Patreon account.
On January 18, 2019, Giertz reported that her tumor had returned. After a course of radiation treatments, Giertz again returned to production on May 29, 2019, describing her ordeal and presenting a project which converted her head alignment mask into a work of art.
Source: https://www.simonegiertz.com
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