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I mean if it's under like, $75 I'd be tempted for the novelty value alone. Or as a conversation piece. The hippie woo is dumb as gently caress. But heck if it doesn't look cool.
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$75? drat hold on I need to find something cool to sell you real quick
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The Iron Rose posted:I mean if it's under like, $75 I'd be tempted for the novelty value alone. Or as a conversation piece. It wouldn't look quite as nice, but you could pretty easily make something like this yourself for well under $75. Just need a cheap magnetic stir play and a carafe.
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Sep 25, 2018 07:14
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A magnetic stirrer plate will look ugly. Build it into the table so it's invisible.
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Sep 25, 2018 07:36
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veni veni veni posted:I don't get why you can't just sell something as a novelty anymore. If they were selling it as the "swirly carafe! Be the biggest hit at your dinner party" it would still be dumb, but so much less offensive. But no, everything has to have some pseudoscientific health benefits now and some boogeyman poo poo about how your normal water isn't natural because apparently coming out of the loving faucet doesn't aerate it enough already. Because it lets you market your product to two audiences instead of one with almost no effort aside from changing some keywords. Its the same soulless marketing principle as every other piece of hetero pornography on the internet labeling itself as incest, people who just want a cool spinny water jug will already buy it for that but people into wellness bullshit who would otherwise pay it no mind are suddenly interested because the ad copy says the cool spinny water has something to do with toxins.
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Sep 25, 2018 13:01
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When your H2O doesn't have enough O.
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Paladinus posted:When your H2O doesn't have enough O. Just lol if you don’t drink H2O2 instead like a real Chad.
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If they made the spiny thing a little slower, they could market it to people on the autism spectrum as a perpetually moving glitter jar. Though I suppose one of the preferred stimminess of glitter jars is watching the specks and flecks slowly drift down. Anyways, I'm just the idea guy.
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Sep 25, 2018 18:05
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The Lone Badger posted:A magnetic stirrer plate will look ugly. Build it into the table so it's invisible. Wasn't that a kickstarter not too long ago? Or no, I think that one just spun the cup around to mix it's contents. Can't find it again now though, I wonder if they succeeded or not.
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Good news everyone, Fontus is dead  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z32_MYxYhc tl;dr: It was a successful Indiegogo scam/delusional campaign that claimed to have a water bottle that fills itself by extracting the humidity from the air and being powered by a small solar panel. Of course it had no chance in hell of filling that bottle in anything resembling a reasonable amount of time.
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mobby_6kl posted:Good news everyone, Fontus is dead Ah gently caress who could've seen this coming? Who could've known that this was a scam? e: 1) Is this guy just Murray Hewitt? 2) Thunderfoot has 4 videos over 15 minutes on the bottle? What? Why? e2: Haha, poo poo, more than 4. There's another at the bottom of his screenshot. SpacePig has a new favorite as of 02:21 on Sep 26, 2018 |
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Sep 26, 2018 02:18
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SubNat posted:Wasn't that a kickstarter not too long ago? google 'Stircle' https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/19/dont-just-stir-stircle/ 
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There's something incredibly designer-brained about uncritically accepting the factoid that almost half a billion disposable stirring sticks are thrown away every day and concluding that the solution to this ecological disaster is retrofitting coffee shops with a complex electromechanical stirring system and not, you know, just using a spoon. Especially when their example image is a disposable plastic cup and straw which is a way bigger deal than a sliver of wood when it comes to wastefulness. Also self-stirring mugs are already a thing. Whether a battery-operated stirring mechanism is more environmentally friendly than stirring manually I have no idea but it does make a mean greek frappe. https://i.imgur.com/3GeMsGu.gifv Also also you can get a milk frother for like three bucks at Ikea and electronically stir any and every beverage and container to your hearts content. 
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i prefer my mountain dew aerated, thank you very much
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Sep 26, 2018 05:59
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The use of the cup with a straw as their example is great. Do they realize you can stir with a straw? Do they take the lid off, remove the straw, and then use a coffee stirrer?
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veni veni veni posted:I don't get why you can't just sell something as a novelty anymore. If they were selling it as the "swirly carafe! Be the biggest hit at your dinner party" it would still be dumb, but so much less offensive. But no, everything has to have some pseudoscientific health benefits now and some boogeyman poo poo about how your normal water isn't natural because apparently coming out of the loving faucet doesn't aerate it enough already. If I could get a decent-sized Klein bottle made out of glass I would immediately buy that because that type of curiosity is right down my alley. However, it seems that the only place which makes and sells them online is a sort of weird-beard huy stuck in the early 90's web pages which look less than legit and resides in US.
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Der Kyhe posted:If I could get a decent-sized Klein bottle made out of glass I would immediately buy that because that type of curiosity is right down my alley. This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU ? And this website: http://www.kleinbottle.com/ ? I mean, it's probably legit; from the video, he clearly has a lot of Klein bottles to get rid of.
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Sep 26, 2018 21:29
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Look at these cheap-rear end 3-dimensional Klein bottles. Get back to me when you have a proper non-self-intersecting 4-dimensional Klein bottle for sale
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Der Kyhe posted:However, it seems that the only place which makes and sells them online is a sort of weird-beard huy stuck in the early 90's web pages which look less than legit and resides in US. That weird-beard guy is Cliff Stoll, of Cuckoo's Egg fame. He's about as legit as that particular flavor of scientific-curio-dealing gets.
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Ultraklystron posted:This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU ? Clifford Stoll is crazy and hilarious. Check out his Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Kk07cVuk4
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Sep 26, 2018 22:00
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Please tag videos of people masturbating as being not safe for work, thanks
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BattleMaster posted:Please tag videos of people masturbating as being not safe for work, thanks You mean all TED Talks?
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Der Kyhe posted:
That's this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
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*black and white footage of a guy spilling a box of matches as he tries to light a candle* There's gotta be a better way! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lumos-candle-world-s-first-auto-ignition-candle/coming_soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJQLCvI_fk https://www.lumoscandle.com/
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Looks like a really cool accessible device to me! It’s definitely not solving the problem they think it’s solving, but if you’re a person with arthritis or Parkinson’s or some other issues, lighting candles means asking for help and those little opportunities for independence are huge. Sometimes a shaky old person just wants to get their candle on and this is pretty great for that! Or people without hands and stuff. You know!
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Ultraklystron posted:This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU ? Holy poo poo, I bought one of his Klein bottles for my grandad around 20 years ago. Its still literally the same website. Future-proof!
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Sep 29, 2018 03:05
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Sep 29, 2018 04:14
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I mean, if all you're doing is selling the same stock of Klein bottles for next 10-20 years, so long as it works on common browsers why update the look? It's not like some company is gonna pop up tomorrow with a fancier Klein bottle website retail business anytime soon.
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Sep 29, 2018 04:55
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Anyone know where I can buy a tesseract? Asking for a friend.
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tuyop posted:Looks like a really cool accessible device to me! That was my first thought too. Sometimes using even a lighter sucks when my hands or wrists are bad.
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Volcott posted:Anyone know where I can buy a tesseract? Asking for a friend. Nice try, Loki.
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Sep 29, 2018 06:52
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tuyop posted:Looks like a really cool accessible device to me! Im not sure its not the problem they think they're solving, it mentions specifically for people with mobility issues in the main blurb. Its like a lot of these products in this area the advertising is aimed at everyone as if its really common problem everyone has.
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Aramoro posted:Im not sure its not the problem they think they're solving, it mentions specifically for people with mobility issues in the main blurb. I might help to make the people who could genuinely use it to not feel like freaks.
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Yeah they should market it to old people and the disabled to put in their emergency kits, and not to someone who lights a candle to work on their laptop for the ~atmosphere~
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I might help to make the people who could genuinely use it to not feel like freaks. People keep saying this about many kinds of bad advertising, but I doubt it works overall. Because most people who see it are immediately laughing at the convoluted scenarios to make it useful and jump straight to assuming it's for freaks and weirdos.
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Klein bottle guy rules.
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Volcott posted:Anyone know where I can buy a tesseract? Asking for a friend. You could always print some 3 dimensional shadows of horrified 4D monkeys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhuaPhahHbU
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super sweet best pal posted:Klein bottle guy rules. There are maybe 3 people that I still make to to watch Numberphile videos of, and he is number one on that list. His enthusiasm is infectious.
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Away all Goats posted:Yeah they should market it to old people and the disabled to put in their emergency kits, and not to someone who lights a candle to work on their laptop for the ~atmosphere~ If your motor functions are impaired to the point where a match or a lighter are an insurmountable obstacle maybe you should just stick to forms of emergency illumination that don't involve open flames.
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Those LED tea lights that run off of a CMOS battery and last like a thousand hours are neat.
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