26 Surprisingly Brilliantly Engineered Everyday Items You Won’t Believe Are So Affordable
Added fun fact that includes zippers: (often) the most expensive part of a handbag is the hardware and this includes all the zippers.
Tough question, I’d say stainless steel cutlery.
How many other things in life are used almost every day, then machine washed, thrown haphazardly into a drawer & regularly survive in a working condition for much more than a century.
-This-Whomps- said:
Metal pencil sharpeners (the manual kind, not electric).
Don’t buy the plastic ones in the school supply section. Go to the art section. Those metal sharpeners are CHOICE.
normopathy replied:
I have a blackwing two-stage sharpener, I could do surgery with a pencil sharpened with it.
nether_wallop replied:
Please don’t.
As a new parent… diapers. Disposable diapers in particular.
Imagine being told as an engineer, you need to design a device to contain the vilest, grossest materials known to man. Both liquids and goopy solids. This device must have 3 tight seals against a constantly moving and wiggling life form of inconsistent size. Said life form has notoriously delicate skin, so the materials you can use are drastically limited. It must be able to be removed and installed in seconds by amateurs running on approximately 14 minutes of sleep…
… and it has to cost about 30 cents a unit.
HuntertheGoose said:
Batteries are marvels of engineering packed tightly into a minuscule canister, even AA batteries are incredibly sophisticated internally.
Toboloroner replied:
I saw a video of someone take apart a lithium energizer battery the other day – and it looks like cotton balls and folded foil just all jammed together.
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