After installing several ceiling fans and replacing light fixtures in a couple homes over the past year I’ve come to the conclusion that there just has to be a better way.
Replacing a fixture in theory is relatively simple but the mechanics of it are just a pain in the ass. You have to be able to hold the fixture inches away from where it’s going to hang while you connect several wires with wire nuts, then try to stuff these stiff copper wires back up into a tiny junction box, then sometime fish a couple of extension rods blindly through holes in a cover plate all while still balancing the fixture over your head.
Could all be made much simpler if someone invented a universal bracket with a universal wire harness/plug. Just get the fixture near the junction box, plug it in, put it in place and give it a quarter turn to the right.
That one is ridiculously easy: heat at half power. If you have a meal that instructs “3 min on high, stir, 1 1/2 min on high”, just heat it for 9 min at 50% power and stir at the end. Perfect.
I often heat things at a lower power for a longer time since it heats more evenly. But this seems like something the microwave could take care of on its own. Use infrared sensors to see how evenly the food is heating up. If hotspots develop, lower the power so the heat of the hotspot can diffuse through the food on its own. Just tell the microwave how hot you want the food and let it figure out how to best warm it.
Forget the “find my remote” thing. I want a device to locate where my cat’s toys have disappeared to.
They’re under the fridge. You’re welcome.
Do you mean like this?
How about a scaled up Dyson hand dryer with giant speakers that play Ride of the Valkyries , and comes with a white board, some Expo markers and Dave from Marketing?
Yes, but before you can have that you must master the feathering of the archetype clutch.
I used to want to breed Saint Bernard sized house cats, but I doubt many people would want to have litter boxes sized for them.
Just market remote control reflector stickers- profit!
I bought a key from one of those mall kiosk automatic key makers and for just $4 I got a copy of my key AND the “head” of the key had a plastic cover that when you press a tiny light turns on allowing you to open your door in complete darkness.
Why this isn’t standard on every single key for now on I have no idea.
Under your easy chair. At least, that’s where my folks’ one cat batted all hers. My sister and I tilted the chair and removed all of them. The cat stared at us then promptly batted one back under the easy chair.
We just use a space heater in our master bathroom. It’s great because we typically keep our bedroom pretty cold.
I used to carry a small solar-powered flashlight on my keychain. It was fantastic and always handy. But it broke, and by then I had started carrying a small but much brighter flashlight in my pocket at all times, and that one could make phone calls too, so I never replaced it.
I want instant nail polish pens. I want lipstick that never smears, fades or sticks to your teeth. But mostly I want a machine that you walk through that rids your body of fat. Then I can eat anything I want and never suffer the consequences.
Somebody get on those, please. Especially the fat removing one. Thank you in advance.
I’ve got one of those! It’s called a band saw. Can only use it once though.
I want a small plastic shelf that clips to an A/C vent on your car’s dash. When I stop for gas, I often go in and buy a candy bar or two for my trip. During hot, sunny weather, the passenger seat and console are a bit too warm for most candy bars, but a shelf in front of the vent would keep the candy cool (and solid) as soon as you start the car.
That is beyond the capabilities of modern technology.
Considering the adipose tissue distribution on a human body I’d say a walk through isn’t sufficient. Make that a 1000 passes, or way too much work. Well, at least a bandsaw is great at cutting curves.
The battery is the main thing preventing this from being practical.
They already make picnic coolers that use Peltier devices, aka Thermo-electric Coolers or TECs.
For those that don’t know what a Peltier device is, it’s a semiconductor material that if you power it with electricity, all the little semiconductor bits act like itty bitty heat pumps. So one side of the device gets hot, and the other gets cold.
They were first used in satellites. And they were ungodly expensive. These days you can buy one for about $5 to $10 depending on how big you want it.
Peltier devices aren’t the most efficient things in the world, but they are simple, lightweight, cheap, and have no moving parts. You can use them to heat or cool, and if you reverse the direction of the electricity, the hot side becomes the cold side and the cold side becomes the hot side. You can also use them as (fairly poor and inefficient) generators. Apply heat to one side and cold to the other and they’ll generate electricity.
The one trick you need to use them as a cooler is that you have to keep in mind that they generate their own waste heat. If you don’t have something (like a fan or a big air-cooled heat sink) to remove the extra heat from the hot side, the whole thing will tend to overheat fairly quickly.
Peltier devices are commonly used as CPU coolers when a passive heat sink can’t provide enough cooling.
And, as I originally said, Peltier devices are also used in portable picnic coolers. They work well, but they usually plug into a cigarette lighter since pumping that much heat out of even a small picnic sized container does take a lot of energy.
And this is what gets you. If you want to use one for hiking, you’d have to carry a very large battery around with it.
https://www.amazon.com/Igloo-40358-P-Iceless-Thermoelectric-Cooler/dp/B008AQK1NC
https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-PowerChill-Portable-Thermoelectric-Cooler/dp/B0083F8YZC
For most people, these work well enough.If you are hiking, plug one into your car and go on your hike. When you get back to your car, your drinks and whatever are nice and cool. Also good for long car trips, picnics, camping, etc.