""Mid Century Modern"… I hate that term. Just means nothing and yet I see it pop up all over the internet lately.And sorry, complaining about using "walnut wood" instead of just "walnut" just seems petty and clearly a vent for some personal issue with the company.It's "walnut wood" instead of "maple wood" or "beech wood", and not instead of "walnut metal".I don't mind questioning methods and ripping off someones design to sell it for less is becoming an issue. However, this article is missing the point. There's nothing that justifies the 1955 "original" price of $8950, because being from the 50's, what do you think it is mostly made of? YES! Veneered plywood/particle board. It's visible on every single picture on dwr's website.The real question isn't weather or not Joybird is falsely advertising anything, it's why companies charge three times or more for the "original" pieces of furniture that probably cost the same as their counterfeit products.Take the eames plastic chair. Fiberglass was new in the 50's and production expensive. What's it made of today? Plastic. It's pressed in a form, done in a matter of minutes and the only manual labor is taking it out of the mold. The legs? There were no welding robots in the 50's. There are today. The better plastic mixture and better chrome in the Herman miller produced one do by no means justify the $500 price difference. Marketing can't be an issue, it's already popular.This is a bad article, there's way too much personal opinion in there to be taken seriously. I get it, it's a blog, but this rant and picking apart any word it says on their website is just unprofessional."

"The reason bicycle spokes are so strong isn't because there are so many of them. It's in how the forces are distributed, and when put in a circular shape, they all become basically tensile wires. There's never any force pressing them together or bending them. It's the same principle as in most modern stadium roofs.The shopping cart on the other hand is a completely different construction which has, except for the material and the little shopping cart wheel, nothing to do with a bicycle wheel.By connecting as many wires as there are horizontally in vertically, the basket becomes a sort of vierendeel construction. It only works because every single joint is rigid and forms a rectangle that doesn't change its shape. In an array, it becomes incredibly strong - the cart in the video breaks at the wheels, not the basket.It isn't really the most material efficient construction, so thinking about it, it's kind of begging for a redesign…"