product ideas

"Brendan Murray" wrote in message
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"Jon Senior" jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk wrote in message
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Nathaniel Porter opined the following...
SNIP
It could also be used to suggest to some drivers that they might wish to
use the vast and frequently empty tract of tarmac known as the inside
lane!

Apart from the fact that overtaking on the inside has been identified as
being a major cause of motorway accidents as well as being an offence. As
far as I can remember the law states you're supposed to drive on the left.
Always!


A reason to encourage people to use the inside lane, shirley?

Brendan Murray wrote:

"Jon Senior" jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk wrote in message
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Nathaniel Porter opined the following...
SNIP
It could also be used to suggest to some drivers that they might wish to
use the vast and frequently empty tract of tarmac known as the inside
lane!

Apart from the fact that overtaking on the inside has been identified as
being a major cause of motorway accidents as well as being an offence. As
far as I can remember the law states you're supposed to drive on the left.
Always!

Please point to the law / section of the Highway Code that outlaws
'undertaking'.
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In ,
Chris decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a
rant as follows
I am in the final year of a technology education degree course, part
of which involves designing a product and manufacturing it to
prototype stage. The product has to be original, or better designed,
than any similar product on the market. I am posting this message to
a number of newsgroups in the hope that someone will have a problem
with a product they use, or can't find a product to suit their
requirements in the market place. I would appreciate any (sensible)
suggestions.

A working spam filter would be nice. One that puts a stop to people
crossposting things across all sorts of weird groups..

... although saying that, this doesn't appear to have been crossposted that
foolishly

as you were..


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Scouse Git extraordinaire. Liverpool, Great Britain

Chris wrote in message
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I am in the final year of a technology education degree course, part of
which involves designing a product and manufacturing it to prototype
stage.
The product has to be original, or better designed, than any similar
product
on the market. I am posting this message to a number of newsgroups in the
hope that someone will have a problem with a product they use, or can't
find
a product to suit their requirements in the market place. I would
appreciate
any (sensible) suggestions.

A bit off topic for some of these NGs, but have you thought of designing a
digital camera that is easy for a left-hander to use. There must be a few
southpaws out there who would like to photograph their
car/bike/horse/catch/bloom and find the assumption that they want to work
the shutter with the index finger of the right hand inconvenient?

Actually, what is needed is a design for controls that are equally
convenient for either hand.

Jim

"Chris" wrote in message ...
I am in the final year of a technology education degree course, part of
which involves designing a product and manufacturing it to prototype stage.
The product has to be original, or better designed, than any similar product
on the market. I am posting this message to a number of newsgroups in the
hope that someone will have a problem with a product they use, or can't find
a product to suit their requirements in the market place. I would appreciate
any (sensible) suggestions.

OT - general tools suitable for women-sized hands and designed to give
extra leverage where necessary to compensate for the typical
difference in strength, and particularly hand strength, between men
and women. Egs, screwdriver, electric drill.

Typical task: building shelving on a brick wall. Problems
encountered: not able to drill as far as desired into wall, especially
when on ladder (this is not me, good old Dad came and finished the job
with ease and same drill bit); then not able to fully screw in the
screws (after the holes made deep enough, and again completable by
Dad). Possible market: approx one half the population.

Bike tools equally - its a real struggle to ensure wheels are tight
enough using wrench (on wheels without quick release, with the quick
release the problem is different, but still there).

Sarennah

Brendan Murray opined the
following...

"Jon Senior" jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk wrote in message
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Nathaniel Porter opined the following...
SNIP
It could also be used to suggest to some drivers that they might wish to
use the vast and frequently empty tract of tarmac known as the inside
lane!

Apart from the fact that overtaking on the inside has been identified as
being a major cause of motorway accidents as well as being an offence. As
far as I can remember the law states you're supposed to drive on the left.
Always!

Which is why they should be encouraged to move into the "empty tract of
tarmac known as the inside lane". A large proportion of British drivers
are of the opinion that the inside lane is reserved for slow moving
vehicles, not the correct position for everything except overtaking.

Jon

In article ,
Sarennah wrote:
Typical task: building shelving on a brick wall. Problems
encountered: not able to drill as far as desired into wall, especially
when on ladder (this is not me, good old Dad came and finished the job
with ease and same drill bit);

You could have solved this with an SDS electric drill - they go through
any masonry like butter. Cheap ones can be rather heavy, though.

then not able to fully screw in the
screws (after the holes made deep enough, and again completable by
Dad). Possible market: approx one half the population.

Again, a decent screw driving drill with pozidriv screws would get round
the lack of wrist strength.

Bike tools equally - its a real struggle to ensure wheels are tight
enough using wrench (on wheels without quick release, with the quick
release the problem is different, but still there).

Bike spanners are designed to give the correct torque with an average
pull. If you can't provide that pull, use a longer spanner. Quality car
types usually are. Or use your weight to provide the effort rather than
pulling - stand on the spanner.

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*Modulation in all things *

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Brendan Murray wrote:

Apart from the fact that overtaking on the inside has been identified as
being a major cause of motorway accidents as well as being an offence.

It's not illegal per se.

Richard wrote:

Brendan Murray wrote:

Apart from the fact that overtaking on the inside has been identified as
being a major cause of motorway accidents as well as being an offence.


It's not illegal per se.

It is if you're using the hard shoulder. (Rule 243).

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Ian Edwards

Following on from Chris's message. . .
I am in the final year of a technology education degree course, part of
which involves designing a product and manufacturing it to prototype stage.
The product has to be original, or better designed, than any similar product
on the market. I am posting this message to a number of newsgroups in the
hope that someone will have a problem with a product they use, or can't find
a product to suit their requirements in the market place. I would appreciate
any (sensible) suggestions.


An _emergency_ rain suit.


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