"I understand the premise of finding a second life for discarded products, but the last two examples are products that can still be used in their first life. Pallet racks and water cubes are not ready to be repurposed if they still hold their basic function or can be repaired and reused in their original design. That's just creating more waste with the need to use more resources to have more new product in the stream."

"This isn't the only design flaw. I've had to replace multiple parts on my Dyson vacuums either with cheap Chinese parts from Amazon or by 3D printing my own. They have not designed for durability nor for consumer repair."

"This is actually pretty old news. Toyota research found that animals like to eat wires and that soy is a red herring.Farmers have dealt with this for years. The real irony is that the reason many tractors are diesel, beyond the torque and efficiency compared with gas, is that mice and rats won't bother engines covered in a thin layer of diesel."

"This is a cool concept but I'm confused as to how the geometry would work on a real vehicle. Most cars have very tight packaging on the front end and the interior turning wheel looks like it's intruding a lot into what would be the subframe area (engine, transmission, etc.)"

"There's a new version of the PRUSA that was redesigned by Design that Matters and is approved by NIH. It incorporates a brim on top to protect the wearer when they're looking down.As I've said in other postings online, being fast to production shouldn't necessarily be the goal. Most of the Apple face shields will have to be disposed of quickly, where other designs will be able to last multiple shifts after cleaning. Smaller clinics are preferring designs that can last a week or more, being sterilized each night."

"Screwtop cardboard liquid containers are a package design fail, not the user. It's almost impossible to get the last few drops of juice or almond milk out without opening it the "old" way."

"Thanks for posting this! The SMU makerspace (the DIG) is doing pre-production today and will see how many we can make until we run out of supplies."