Thanks to reader Peter S for sharing this with Made By Monkeys, an unfortunate story of failing lock mechanisms… He writes: Last night I was trapped outside my bedroom because the latch inside the door disintegrated leaving the spring-loaded bolt engaged. So instead of going to bed, I had…
Thanks to reader Bob, from Milwaukee, for sharing this one with us, about his travails with his 2005 Jeep Liberty’s RBQ 6-CD Changer… But will the “mother-ship” come to the rescue? Bob writes: I have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of the 6-CD changer that…
Do you believe this one? A French design company, Quarks Design, has apparently created a special paint that can be used to control appliances. Coolest Gadgets reports the “Quarks has created a tactile ‘switch’, a fusion of paint and embedded electronic mechanisms that enable a wall to act as an…
Thanks to Graham R. for this one, and his experience with the retaining screw on his Bosch jigsaw. He writes: The cutting angle on my Bosch jigsaw can be changed by loosening a screw, moving the shoe round, and retightening. This will be done more than once-in-a-lifetime…
In the UK, objections to wind farms are often made on the grounds of “aestheticism”, the twisting blades spoiling otherwise perfect countryside views. Hmmm. IMHO this is just NIMBY-ism in another guise…
However, wind turbines can be far from perfect, as this video darkly and dramatically demonstrates.
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Click on the image to see detailed view of the failed zinc casting. Rolling luggage has to be one of the greatest engineering innovations of all time, so it’s a real pity that their telescoping handles are so frequently a dismal failure. On a recent trip (to India, natch…