"Pelican make rugged cases for the military. They have a conputer flight case that unfolds into a ready-to-use workstation. You might find a solution there. "

"> but I can't see how that single sheet of plywood, with no support along the long axis, wouldn't sag over time. The plywood top can't sag at the back, since the distance between the tops of the two rear legs is constrained by the X structure between them. Additionally, it appears that the top can be used either way up."

"Great article, thanks! And great informed replies too.  Yep, those hooks hanging from the headrest would be terrible for passenger in the rear of the vehicle. No way would the car maker fit them. But hey, many cars are driven daily with no passengers at all, and the driver wants to store his jacket. Rolls eyes. That itself is an inelegant situation, one that society - or infrastructure and transport designers-  has yet to solve.  * * * I used to drive a van with a dedicated slot in the dashboard for a fuel card or credit card... A card so stored would skin my knuckles when I changed gear with the dashboard-mounted gear stick.  Ford, using a 12v cigarette lighter-sized blanking plate in the passenger glovebox to mount a 3.5mm audio-in socket, rendering a useful port invisible and thus unused. I didn't know it was there for two years of driving that Transit! I appreciate the manufacturing logic (add useful feature in place of old and less used feature whilst keeping the same injection mould tooling) but had they just used a colour other than black for the blanking plate then the port would have been more obvious.  Transit again: sharp metal edges to seat mounts, cutting your hand when you're fishing for a lost object.  Transit again: seatbelt latch always falls into the door latch mechanism maybe when exiting the vehicle, this preventing the door from fully closing. Luckily. Ford alert you to the failure to close the door by a loud and embarrassing double honk of the horn when you press Lock on the key fob. (It is actually a breach of the UK's Highway Code to sound a vehicle's horn after 10pm in residential areas, so thank you Ford.  Mercedes Vito: really poor audio speakers. "

"Eh? These lamps connect to mobile phones via a Bluetooth chip. Some lamp settings such as what time you wish the lamp to turn, or where you are in the world, are controlled via an app on the phone. There is no GPS hardware, or WiFi, in the lamp. GPS receivers alone don't work well indoors anyway (mobile phones gain their rough location from known WiFi routers and cell towers to speed up their acquisition of GPS satellite signals )"

"I used the Stereo / Mono option on a twenty year old Denon receiver the other day...  As Dan above notes, in areas of poor signal the Mono FM option can often give clear audio when the Stereo option will be hissy and buzzy. "

"And interestingly, the toilet paper supply problems in the early COVID era were due to a disconnect between the domestic supply chain and the commercial supply chain (toilet paper for restaurants and offices was left under used)"

"Nice. It would be very useful for people who wear spectacles. "

" For comparison, Microsoft's Adaptive Controller:https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/accessories/controllers/xbox-adaptive-controller"

"If you were arranging a keyboard and monitor on a desk to optimise the ergonomics, you wouldn't have the monitor and keyboard squished together as is the case with a conventional laptop. "

"The lack of physical controls isn't a deal breaker for Bluetooth speakers, since a phone is typically used to control playback. However:Sadly it can't be picked up with one hand. The mesh can't be great for sound quality, and hard to clean too. "

"That is sad. I suppose the lack of touring opportunities for musicians in the last few years cannot have helped. Buying a new, shinier and lighter case is a an optional luxury if the musician already owns a perfectly serviceable case for their instrument.  I like the idea of the case *looking* more fragile than it is, since it might *nudge* luggage handlers to be more gentle with it.  "

"Strangely, I've seen quite a few young women in the pub with oversize handbags. Their problem isn't carrying a big phone - even one in huge case - but rather, their problem is that their phones sink to the bottom their handbags, making it tricky to retrieve when they receive a call. "