"I can understand their reticence to bring the new truck here. In the US, Mercedes is purely a luxury car brand, and isn't known for their trucks. In other parts of the world however, Mercedes trucks are far more prevalent, and they're considered a full-line brand. Just Google "Unimog" or check out the many pickup versions of their G-Wagen SUVs. For the same reason, Mercedes will not bring any of their smaller, cheaper cars to the US. It allows them to maintain the luxury brand image."

"A) What a maintenance nightmare. How are you supposed to trim the grass, with scissors?B) It is probably only viable in dry climates reliant on artificial watering. otherwise the seat would often be far to wet to sit in, having formed it's own little puddle, since it has no way of draining properly.C) Seriously? $279?Source for A & B: my landscape architecture degreeSource for C: common sense"

"Yeah, who cares about comfort anyway."

"I have no idea how they'll perform, but as far as looks go... these things have to be the most bad-ass tires I've ever seen. I'd definitely put a set on my truck, if I had a truck."

"I'm pretty sure that when the product designers at Oral B and Reach set out to design a new brush they already strive to use the smallest amount of material possible while continuing to produce a brush that people can and want to use. Isn't that already the whole point of industrial design?Sure, brushes could be shorter, and we might save some resources at the cost of a little comfort. But that kind of logic can be applied to anything... walk instead of drive, drink water instead of beer, etc... The whole point of design is to come up with the optimal solution, one that allows for comfort, profitability, and hopefully sustainability.Just saying that all brushes should be shorter to save resources kind of misses the point of design in the first place."

"Thanks! My first thought when I saw this was... hey, that's neat, and then I though... why? It is indeed pretty horrible from a user experience standpoint, as well as being a horribly inneficient use of space.Now if it the tool holding bit rose like a hydraulic ram from the top of the drum, with lots of dry-ice smoke and glowing backlights..."

"This seems really awful. The increased complexity of the whole 'watch base' part is ridiculous. Wouldn't it be just as easy, more flexible, (and probably no more expensive) to just put band mounts on the watches themselves? This is an answer looking for a question that nobody is asking."

"Yeah, this is nothing new. The blue one Ryan shows above is much more common than the one you're showing. Sure it's not as pretty as that one, but it has a small hook which doubles as a stand which is invaluable. If you're trying to give medicine to a child, which can be nearly impossible sometimes, the stand actually allows you to set down the spoon, which you can't do with the one above. The hook also allows you to hook it onto the side of a cup."

"So yes... so, so much yes."

"That SimpleScribe would not work at all in the case of your brick wall example, as the flat surfaces would simply ride over the top of the grout channels. Actually, none of the methods described above would work very well for irregular surfaces like the bricks, except for the compass. Really, anyone with a moderately steady hand can use the compass method. And even if slightly imperfect it will most likely more accurate than you can get with your jigsaw anyway."

"Retail price $400... ROFL!"