Those wire hangers are murder in clothes. You want thick wooden hangers that will last you a lifetime.
Unless space is at a premium, in which case a folding hanger almost halves the horizontal space clothes hanging takes.
I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
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#22Sadly, the design is most likely going to be copied, mass produced and available on Temu/Amazon/Alibaba within the next several weeks. Kick Starter is basically free R&D for Chinese manufacturers.
The entire US of A is free R&D for Chinese manufacturers. In fact the entirety of China is free R&D for itself as companies in China copy each other. China is the apex of the open source philosophy taken to the maximum extent.
> The entire US of A is free R&D for Chinese manufacturers.
All of China/Asia/Africa are free manufacturing for the West…
Of course, the view that they don’t innovate and only knockoff the West is also hilariously false.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
if i recall correctly, it was operable so they just removed it
Oh great news!
Well, mostly. I seem to recall that she had a recurrence about a year ago or so (pre-edit, 2019 specifically per her wiki page, I'm getting old). But I've been watching her for a while and she seems to still be active and making good videos, so yeah good news I reckon.
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#24Looks so simple, but I guess that's a sign of good design. I was also surprised something like this didn't exist already. But my first thought was that it will almost certainly be cloned and sold en masse pretty quickly, so I hope she gets enough revenue from it to pay for her time.
Hopefully she already started the patent process, otherwise it’s either 1) an expired patent 2) an existing patent 3) she actually invented it but won’t profit at all from it
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#25Those wire hangers are murder in clothes. You want thick wooden hangers that will last you a lifetime.
This looks thicker than typical wire hangers
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The entire US of A is free R&D for Chinese manufacturers. In fact the entirety of China is free R&D for itself as companies in China copy each other. China is the apex of the open source philosophy taken to the maximum extent.
o/s is where you share your designs freely, not just rip others off. China copies everything and everyone else, but then still tries to keep it's own secrets.
> o/s is where you share your designs freely, not just rip others off.
It's effectively the same thing. It's just connotations. In fact China has a lot of bad connotations associated with everything they do so it's hard to talk about the country in an unbiased way. There's so much pride and patriotism that gets introduced into the equation especially given the fact that it's on track to overtake the US in terms of economic size.
On the other hand, open source has too much good connotations associated with the term. If the core philosophy was exploited to the maximum extent you essentially get China.. where the incentive to innovate is much less than the incentive to copy someone else's innovation.
>China copies everything and everyone else, but then still tries to keep it's own secrets.
Doesn't everybody do this? The US full of closed source and open source code/products? The thing with China is that stopping illegal copying is unlikely to be enforced so the only defense against intellectual property in China is secrecy.
In the US both secrecy and law are used for protection and many companies and people exploit both of these tools.
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#27Isn't the point of a coat hanger to hang your clothes uncrumpled? If you're compromising on that aspect, wouldn't wall hooks fit most use cases?
For places where space is at a premium a normal coat hanger on a telescopic rod would be a viable alternative in many cases, i.e. have the clothes rotate almost 90°, and mostly overlap.
You can also stack the coat hangers vertically, e.g. with cheap plastic brackets like these: https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ew6YWEt
There's surely good niche use cases for these, but looking at this advertisment I don't see why I'd want to go for this particular solution.
The sales pitch would be more convincing if it was contrasted to other space saving clothes hanging techniques in existing use, rather than pointing out that the inventor was unable to find prior art for her particular solution.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#28Isn't the point of a coat hanger to hang your clothes uncrumpled? If you're compromising on that aspect, wouldn't wall hooks fit most use cases? For places where space is at a premium a normal coat hanger on a telescopic rod would be a viable alternative in many cases, i.e. have the clothes rotate almost 90°, and mostly overlap. You can also stack the coat hangers vertically, e.g. with cheap plastic brackets like the…
There is a pretty major difference between crumpled and folded. A soft/wide radius fold isn't going to leave wrinkles or a major crease but it may still be noticeable.
A sharp/small radius fold will leave a crease but will be significantly less noticeable on most clothes than wrinkles.
And either way the crease would be along a stress point where wearing the clothes would smooth the crease out quickly.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#29need this in tokyo
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Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#30If you want to save space why hang your clothes? Stacking them is easy and does not require another object to be used.