electric paper plane launcher: why?
December 9th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
Most of the time we feature gadgets that are weird, funny or innovative. This gadget falls under none of those. We are presenting it in the hope that the people behind it, and everyone else behind any commercial product of such nature, will freaking cease and desist their foolishness.
I actually tried to justify to myself this gadget’s dimension-shattering existence, thinking that it might be useful for very young kids or people with special needs, such as amputees. But look at what’s inside the box: battery box, plastic rings, nuts, wire, plastic suction cups, sticky pads, screws, plastic discs with pulley, connecting sleeves, terminal block, screw driver, base plate with guide, motors and detailed instructions. Batteries not included. Tell me, Middlesex University, which would be easier: to ask someone to assemble the motherflipping contraption, or to ask someone to launch a paper plane? Using their built-in hands?
I don’t care if the paper planes it launches move at the speed of light. This is like someone eating your food for you. Someone that you have to purchase for $16 and build. Notice also that the box says “kits created by specialists who teach teachers”, and not “kits created by specialists who create kits”. The second one would have been so much more reassuring.
Kids: remember what happened in WALL*E? Use your limbs. For the sake of humanity.
[via computersight]
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December 9th, 2008 comments (1): stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
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The Plane Launcher is intended as a way of getting kids away from computers and getting them to be more hands-on once again. It also encourages creative thought in terms of physical design and tackles educational subjects including electronics and safety implications in design.