Toby B

Software Developer, Williams-Sonoma Inc.
Portland, OR, USA

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  • "It's interesting, but hard for me to get a sense of what the riding position would be like, it looks like you can't lean forward to use your back/glutes like you can on drop bars - and speaking of bars, the steering wheel is cute, but silly, no leverage, and you can't mount bells / lights / phone holders etc. as easily."
    on: Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s
  • "Nope, if you click through on the link in the first paragraph to his site there's a draggable 3D rendering, the top is bumpy, no holes, but lots of lumps, you'd want to set a sheet of something flat on it."
    on: The Spherene Side Table, by Peter Donders
  • "They look great, but the ergonomics seem suspect - at least they have some lever versions, but the plain ones would be hard to pull a door closed with - one-way knob...."
    on: Hemispherical Doorknobs?
  • "Very cool, though even factoring in recovering the R&D costs, 700 Euros seems like a high price for a handsome chunk of plastic... I wonder if each one is effectively handmade by its creator..."
    on: The Rotary-Printed HIVE Lamp, by Stijn van Aardenne
  • "Reasonable, though a collander seems like it would also let the ethylene "leak" out, or a wire basket, or a hanging mesh bag..."
    on: This Inside-Out Fruit Bowl Keeps Fruits Fresh Longer
  • "Not too far from a shooting stick (but the tripod base would be more stable). I would think sitting on one for any period of time would be uncomfortable, but they do nest up tightly, so I guess they're more for convenience of the venue than the sitters."
    on: Casual Seating: Konstantin Grcic's THING_01
  • "Oho, it's a gimlet plus, that looks very useful."
    on: A Manual Pre-Drilling, Screwdriving & Hook Driving Tool
  • "A very strong Close Encounters vibe, but I can see it would be much better than floodlights / flashlights / headlamps in the field."
    on: The Flying Sun: Persistent Overhead Emergency Lighting, Delivered by Drone
  • "It's creative for sure, though rounded carbon-fiber 'knuckles' don't seem like they'd do a lot of damage (they should be plenty strong enough to carry a bag of groceries, at least)."
    on: Form Follows Bizarre: Maybe the Strangest EDC Object We've Seen
  • "Doesn't look technically too complex, quadcopters get their stability from spinning two rotors one direction, and the other two the opposite direction (diagonally), this design spins the upper rotor the opposite direction from the lower (easy to see in the dumping-water video clip) instead. The only not-off-the-shelf piece of engineering I see is the central shaft that couples  the two props plus motors to let the spin while staying connected."
    on: A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial
  • "I want to believe? For the US, I wonder if it wouldn't be classed as a motorcycle (and thus require wearing a helmet...) and I wouldn't want to imagine what getting hit by a Rivian or other giant truck would do to the driver..."
    on: YKS1 One - Single-Seater Electric Car
  • "Within reason - imagine whittling away enough wood to only leave a long piece of graphite, like a few cm long - it'd break without the wood to support it."
    on: Blackwing's Overbuilt Pencil Sharpener Cuts a Curved Point
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