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- Zwilling Professional S Universal Knife 13 cm - For the daily joy of cutting fresh "Brötchen"
https://www.zwilling-messer.de/Zwilling-Professional-S-Unive...
- Nintendo Labo series - Child toys made from cardboard for the Nintendo switch with an incredible level of perfection on so many levels
https://www.nintendo.de/Nintendo-Labo/Nintendo-Labo-1328637....
Legos; also the ender 3d printer. I had a nostalgic time putting the ender together. Felt like a lego set. That's not saying it was trivial (it challenged me) but that I trusted it every step of the way not because of previous experience, but because of the obvious well-designed aspects of the experience as I was putting it together. For example: I put on a part sloppily, and trying to attach anther part was the firs…
I'm sorry, but 3D printers, while quite an innovation allowing cheap and fast prototyping, are not well designed things. I own three, and talk to friends who collectively probably own close to 100. They, including models with great reputation (e.g. Prusa printers), break all the time. Also the mere fact that there are thousands of mods for all of them on sites like Thingieverse to make them better is another indicati…
Unfortunately it's like $15k and material is also very expensive.
I find it interesting that most of the comments are about physical products. The 'best design' is often something that's so frictionless and easy to use that it's invisible in day-to-day use. Everyday infrastructure like steps are something that's noticeable when they're off (e.g. spaced too far apart, or too steep); most are designed well. It's easy to find things that are designed poorly. But much less tangible to…
Here in NL I think the roads are particularly well-designed. We have well-designed junctions that prevent accidents in a very passive way (good visibility, the ability to make eye contact with crossing traffic).
The Kinesis Advantage keyboard [1]. The height of the keys in each column are different because, well, the length of each of our fingers is different. It’s so naturally comfortable that it goes unnoticed and one’s fingers just fall into the right position. Placing one’s fingers offset left or right is so obviously uncomfortable that it’s basically impossible to have off-by-one typos. There is a lot of subtly well-des…
I use a custom keyboard with a similar columnar stagger. In addition it's small enough that I can reach every key without moving my hands, which means my accuracy is noticeably better. There's no chance I'm ever going back voluntarily. Typing all kinds of symbols all day just doesn't get more comfortable. This is why I'm always so annoyed by all the "qwerty vs. dvorak" arguments. It's pretty much the least problemati…
Having used a DIY columnar staggered keyboard for about a year a laptop keyboard feels like using a device that is not designed for humans.
It kind of pains me to say this, but I'll say Sonos from about 5-6 years ago. When I first got a couple speakers, I touted it as the best consumer electronics experience I'd ever had to except maybe some Apple products. Unfortunately, it has been consistently downhill the past couple of years. What used to "just work" now constantly has issues and glitches, and speakers I got just a few years ago that work great are…
I'll go a game route: Mario Kart. It's just so perfect. All of them from the SNES to the Switch. I've played countless hours and never get bored. The level designs are all so interesting and unique I find myself discovering something new every time. It's social and I've seen it dominate dinner parties.
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Qbittorrent client has a built in search engine. Add the jackett plugin and you can search every public tracker in one click. I haven't visited a torrent site in years.
This is cool, but unfortunately the best content is on private trackers (you also need them to reduce the risk of abuse reports to your provider). Not sure if the need to use private trackers can be fixed by the protocol, though. But, maybe adding a bit more of anonymity would be enough? i2p torrents provide that, but sacrifice speed. Clearly it's a spectrum and we need more "points" in the middle of it.
https://www.mcmaster.com/ Fast, snappy, responsive. No banners or cookie prompts, doesn't ask my to sign up for a newsletter or an account to continue and see more selection, it doesn't load in megabytes of JavaScript to show me products. Plus, responsive as all heck, and there isn't any bullshit prompts like "click here to see our selected offerings" or "check out our value products here" Like, from. The short url,…
And there's just something about it's refined heft that makes it a pleasurable object to hold.