Standard charger cables in different colours. The plugs *and *the cables too, preferably, but the cables at least.
You know how Android phones all have the same chargers, and there are ‘kettle leads’ that are the same for a lot of devices, but they’re almost all black with a few that are grey, and Apple’s are white? I’d pay good money for a charger cable that I could identify from the mess of other cables.
Hell, you could even make them in team colours. ‘Hey, Jason, this is your charger - it’s the blue and white Chelsea one.’ Easy to identify and a little personal addition to an otherwise fairly impersonal birthday present of a new phone.
I’ve been touting this online for maybe 12 years now and am still surprised that nobody’s actually doing it. Is there some technological reason for the lack of different colours of chargers and/or cables?
I’d like to see a bicycle “horn” that uses a recordable chip so you can make your own custom “warning sounds”. Forget the mundane “honk honk”,“ring ring” or the boring old “on your left!”-- with today’s technology you could have multiple options for different occasions.
I was frequently hit by the side-opening oven door when I worked in a cafe in Berlin, because the oven was next to the door to the kitchen and if you were bending down to open the oven then the people coming in to the kitchen couldn’t see you - I had burns up my left arm for months. Everybody there did - it was like a mark of service.
When I was a little kid, there was some kind of soap that had a small plastic toy inside it. There was also a soap that was shaped like some sort of critter, and when it got wet it developed a fuzz. My parents bought that soap one time, and I hid it, because I knew that soap gets smaller and eventually vanishes, and I didn’t want the critter to die. I was pretty young.
You can buy tags for this sort of thing. Or you can use duct or electrical tape. My husband knows when I’ve repaired something around the house, because I tend to use either purple or leopard spotted duct tape.
Someone’s already doing this. I have an Apple charger cable that is bright green that I picked up at Office Depot last year. I don’t think they had cables for other phone brands, though.
I thinkj it was Fairy Chat Mom (possibly Eve?) who so perfectly described the practice of taking that tiny sliver of soap and attaching it to the new bar of soap like a parasite. That’s what I do. So having a tiny insert would just annoy me. Regarding toothpaste; well I just run the bottom half of the tube over the edge of the counter (like when you’re trying to make a piece of paper curly) and that forces the toothpaste into the top half. I then fold the tube at that point. I rarely have a problem with toothpaste mushing back to the bottom of the tube. I actually like the razor idea. My current method of replacing my razor is when I realize I’ve hacked my face up because the blades are dull.
The toothpaste idea came about from having a wife who will insist on squeezing the tube from either the middle or the top. You have no idea how this bugs me, but in fairness I have put up with this for the last 45 years of married life. In the good old days when toothpaste came in metal tubes they could be wound up from the base and did not unravel when squeezed. Today, these metal tubes could be recycled as against the plastic ones that I am sure are not put in the recycling bag but just discarded.
Yes. Yes, you are. Do you only use it to shave your forehead?
I shave once a week; neck, cheeks and under my lower lip. I use a Gillette Mach 3. I store it in in alcohol so it doesn’t corrode. After a month the razor is dull. I can usually suffer through it for another two weeks before I snap on a new blade.
Dunno if you care, but the reason for the switch to plastic tubes is that they are cheaper and easier to produce. People are more concerned about toothpaste being cheap than exactly how efficiently they can use it.
If there was enough demand for it in metal tubes, we’d produce it - plenty of other products use them.
How would a consumer go about registering that demand? The plastic toothpaste tube is one of my major malfunctions with consumer products. If there was a toothpaste in a metal tube, I would buy it.
Contact the company who’s toothpaste you buy. In my opinion, there won’t be enough people who would pay a higher price for metal tubes - but sending an email to whichever brand you use won’t hurt, and if enough people do it, it might change.
Adobe, why, oh why, can’t Illustrator export to CGM format any more? It used to - why’d you take it away? The defense industry is unfortunately tied to the CGM format, and not being able to export to it means we have to use software that isn’t as adaptable or user-friendly as Illustrator, all because you decided to make you product less useful. Why haven’t you fixed this yet? EVERY defense illustrator I know would love to be able to use your product, buy your licenses, make you money.
I mentioned this idea on this board years ago; it was actually marketed briefly, but apparently didn’t take off. Well, I still think it’s a great idea. Ready? Here it is:
Pre-measured peanut butter sticks, like sticks of shortening or butter, for baking.
Around here, Walgreens has started doing this. $5 will get you a USB to micro-USB or USB to Apple cord. Another $5 will get you a wall outlet to USB converter.$5 more for a pair of earbuds. All available in 5 or so different colors.
A couple of years ago, there was a company selling peanut butter in plastic-wrapped slices, much like how Kraft American Cheese is packaged. But that was mostly for sandwiches, not for baking.
I just posted this as a side note in another thread before realizing this thread existed: Sock garters/suspenders that clip to your socks on one end, and the bottom of your dress shirts at the other. That way, it keeps your socks up and your shirts tucked in.