"It sounds more like they have a standard and are not enforcing it uniformly.  Whether this is because of gender, who knows, I kind of doubt it.  "

"Most kitchen things aren't considered at all, they just expect everyone in the world to own a dishwasher."

"So I use a black diamond headlight from a couple years ago, and this thing seems to miss the boat a few times:- No ability to rotate the light.  Sometimes I want to see downwards, for task lighting.  Sometimes I want it straight ahead.- Flood vs Spot:  Different needs, different lighting.- Bright vs Dim:  BD has this incredibly epic feature where you hold down the button to get it to slowly oscillate between brightest and darkest.  You release when it's the brightness you want.Idk. This has some neat features, but the inability to angle downwards means it's a failure already, imho."

"Glad I met him at the IDSA conference in 2013 or so.  Bummed he's gone, he gave a great presentation and seemed like an awesome designer."

"I own a Beocenter 7700 with a pair of Beovox S45s and they sound effing awesome.  B&O takes risks to produce gorgeous hifi equipment that is anything but ordinary.  Is their stuff overpriced, and often proprietary and weird?  Yup.  But that's what makes it kind of cool.As for not mounting the speaker flat against the wall, it probably has some ports on the back.   If you mounted it flat the sound quality would suffer. "