Porn?
Kitchen appliance?
Reflection?
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We have an amazing giant biomechanical hand that you can manipulate using controls. I’m surprised the middle finger hasn’t fallen off yet.
(Have I mentioned this is a children’s museum I work at? For like 5 and 6 year olds?)
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Every time I’ve caught someone deliberately messing with the stuff, it’s been 20-ish dudes. Kids manage to break stuff accidentally much faster, though.
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They all use modern electronics and other hi tech components in order to dramatically improve energy efficiency, safety, eliminate toxic metals, and reduce weight (which cuts transportation waste and materials used.)
Modern parts are also generally made to more precise tolerances, so they run quieter, smoother, and last longer (as long as they’re operated within spec, which means they might not tolerate high G forces while running, that sort of thing.)
These engineering advances reduce the Total Cost of Ownership, including a lower purchase price, and far lower energy consumption.
Do you want to spend more for a heavy, energy-inefficient, expensive hog? Most people don’t.
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Try to explain this story to your Idiot Time Traveler from 1909.
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The first part is easy to explain. We have a system that allows us to access any information that exists, so naturally we use it to look at naked people.
The second part? We have devices that keep perishable food cool, and… fuck this, I’m out.
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Is that the SMEG Child Trapper 2000?
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U Y H8 DE EECONOMEE?
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Mickey might have got to 10 weeks if that was on the fridge.
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Maybe it was self-defrosting.
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I just saw the salad undressing!
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You saying BoingBoing is for usual people?
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“Sausage… German Sausage,”
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I see that is the Smeg with vacuum attachment.
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Eerie…
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Sorry, I don’t buy it. I’m not saying we should go back to the 1950’s, I’m saying that some company would find a valuable niche market building largely analog, high-reliability and simplicity appliances that last. They can use the same high-efficiency condensers, heating elements, compressors, etc. that “state of the art” appliances do. Just get rid of the computer. They don’t spend enough money or design on the digital controls to make them vibration and temperature-robust, and that’s why they fail within 5 years. Lose the computer and your $3k refridgerator is a heavy, useless brick. I’d spend the same amount of money on an appliance that works reliably than one that has an internet browser but has the reliability of a '06 Dell laptop.
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My refrigerator doesn’t need an internet connection to be energy-efficient or lighter (and it certainly doesn’t reduce the amount of toxic materials in the fridge).
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So what do you keep in the fridge then?
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