Photography

Composite fail

Today’s composite materials are amazing, making many things we touch lighter, cheaper, and often stronger than wood/steel. However, you occasionally bump up against the product designed “just strong enough” in the engineer’s mind, but in fact a failure in real world application. These pruners are a perfect example. Nice light and relatively cheap… but put […]

Old school technology

Visiting battleship Iowa for a look at some robust old school technology right next to a super modern littoral class ship.

Marketing genius

Gotta love the marketing genius… brand new home automation product that states: “Works with incandescent lighting and resistive loads (do NOT use with tube lights, motors, fans, or loads under 20 Watts).” Hate to tell you folks, but incandescent lights are all but GONE and most LED lights operate at under 20w). Doh!