"It seems like these could be an alternative to the scooter apps (lime, bird, etc) that have recently become popular in many cities.  Throw these in your backpack, hop on the train/bus/subway, and skate the last mile to work when you get off the train.  It avoids the regulatory hurdles that are beleaguering the scooter app startups, and would be allowable on public transit systems that don't allow/accommodate bicycles. "

"I live in SF, and yes all of our street names are featured on the sidewalk at each intersection. Supposedly this was implemented after the 1906 earthquake & subsequent fire, so emergency services could find their way around a neighborhood that had burned to the ground. The letters are not etched in, they are cast in with big type blocks when the concrete is poured. The names are cast from individual letterforms, which has led to quite a few typos... https://www.flickr.com/photos/throgers/sets/72157622211751522/The streetnames are helpful from a design standpoint, as people tend to maintain a ~15 degree downward gaze when we walk, the names on the sidewalk allow us to navigate without looking up.  They are also handy for navigation when someone has stolen the streetsign above as a souvenir, which is common at famous intersections like the one at Height & Ashbury sts."

""The user drops a new Google phone into the front, and it latches in with a simple bungie-style loop, rather than a latch that can break."...because we all know plastic or metal latches explode at the slightest touch, but sewn in bungie loops are indestructable & can obviously survive a nuclear blast??"

"I'm surprised that there is no mention of Autodesk Alias, that would be the preferred Autodesk product for ID surfacing by far.Solidworks (for Parametric mechanical design) and Rhino (for Surfacing) are pretty popular with smaller companies/firms.Larger organizations typically use Catia or PTC Creo (formerly called Pro/Engineer) for mechanical design.  These programs both also have excellent surfacing packages, but Alias is the more prevalent surfacing tool with most ID folks I work with.The statement above that "Catia was created by the same company as Solidworks" is incorrect.  Catia was developed by Dassault (a large French Aerospace company) for CADing up airplanes in the 1980s.  Solidworks was created by some former PTC engineers completely independently many years later.  Solidworks was later acquired by Dassault, who was interested in adding a lower cost & easier to use CAD package to their product offerings."

"All good tips, but the graph regarding unit price vs quantity should be taken with a grain of salt for very large manufacturing quantities (millions of parts per year).For many millions of parts, additional CNC machines may need to be purchased, additional shop square footage built or acquired, and many, many sets of identical machining fixtures built and qualified.We typically think of CNC machining as a "relatively low setup cost, but relatively high part cost" process relative to say, injection molding, which has a high setup cost do to all the tooling that needs to be built & purchased up front.  For some part volumes & part geometries, setup cost can be far higher for CNC.  It all comes down to the cycle time required per part and the initial capital expense required to set up the process."

"Can't go wrong with Gill Sans light.  Alcubierre is fantastic, and free to boot."

"This would be quite handy for a lot of the business travel I do in Asia.  However some of my business trips/meetings require formal business attire, perhaps a neck tie with the same icons printed on it?"

"Thanks for your reply Patrick.  Now that you explained that the replacement blade packaging includes a tool to pop out the blade cartridge from behind, that eliminates my major concern.  I was envisioning that the user would need to a) find something in the bathroom to fish out the blade holder from behind, or b) try to push out the blades from the front without cutting themselves.  Including a simple removal tool with the replacement blades seems much more elegant, thanks for clarifying."

"Disappointing.  The blades cannot be changed without popping the blade holder out from the back (which would require a tool), or pushing the blade out from the front (which requires touching the sharp blades). I'd give em a pass if it was a student design exercise, but after 3 years of development?Every razor currently available features a blade system that can be changed without tools & without touching the blades, this smells of usability taking a back seat to achieving a particular form.  "Good design makes a product useful""

"Would have been a great April 1st post :)"