Appliances are all junk now that require you to buy insurance from the store just to ensure that they make it to five years of operation.
Huh? Maybe you should come to the EU where there are mandatory minimum warranty periods and things generally seem to be of higher quality (comparing to your comment anyway).
Are a lovely mix. You don't need to be living in the stone age, but you don't need to go rolling coal down the street, leaving your A/C on 20C while you're out, and have the TV running in an empty room either.
We can do with a lot more waste while we adopt our newer technology.
The entire PC / laptop market had its origins in "clones."
Not at all even remotely on point. "Clones" were defined by their functionality. The capability of running the same software or being able to perform in the same way.
What it wasn't was a visual copy. If anything the "clones" were the ones that started driving changing styles and innovation, the exact opposite of what is happening in this case.
Good headphones can last a decade; but their cables rarely do.
They are headphones, not a lasso. You must be using them wrong. May I suggest you buy my headphones? Firstly the headphone cable is replaceable, and secondly you'll quickly realise you can't use them as a lasso when they go flying away while you mistreat your shit.
Mind you as an Apple fan you probably don't know what strain relief is since the fruity nutcases decided they didn't look good leading to http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-...
Actually Facebook is the smallest app on my phone.... Well Facebook Lite is anyway. It's actually quite impressive in that it isn't just a portal to the website yet it has all the basic functionality you need in Facebook without the stupid fuckery like stories, marketplaces, games, and shit that no one ever uses.
Now I'm just trying to find a way to run Windows 10 IoT edition for my main desktop OS and I'll be sweet.
there is no way it meets the safety standards for a car. It is likely being classified as some other vehicle type
Define a car. Each car has different safety standards. A truck has different ones from sedans, has different ones from hatchbacks, has different ones from whatever. Mind you in the EU there is already a NCAP classification called "Quadricycle" and it has vehicles in it far smaller than what is being proposed here, and yet far safer than an car you drove 15 years ago.
By the way what do you need all this safety for? Do you intend to drive a bubble down the german autobahn weaving between giant trucks? The thing is, cars serve a purpose, the type of purpose served by bubble cars or e.g. the two Renault Twizys parked in my office carpark is typically small short commutes. You're not competing with Volvo S90s for safety. You're not competing with 5 series BMWs or Ford F150s. You're competing with mopeds, motorbikes, trikes, and similar class cars. You're buying something you're unlikely to ever take on an interstate or into an industrial area. Hell chances are you'll never leave a 50km/h zone in one of these, and for those purposes it's safe enough.
Now I understand the thought of a scenario like this may be foreign to Americans, but it is very real in Europe. My nextdoor neighbours are close to retirement and never even got driver's licenses, and that's not actually uncommon where I live. So there's a very large range of use cases between people who never need to drive and people who must own a tank to get around safely.
No. I do however have two friends who are biomedical engineers who do work for hearing aid companies and thus know quite a few people in the industry and how it works, and I briefly interned at a hearing aid company while at University as well.
You think you can produce something for closer to $100? Do it! No seriously DO IT! You would corner the market. You would instantly push out all competition.... You would also very quickly file for chapter 11 and learn a valuable life lesson, namely that designing and building quality and highly customisable low volume equipment which needs to meet standards is actually incredibly fucking expensive.
There's nothing questionable quality about most of the hearing aids out there. They are often incredibly well manufactured to specs Dr Dre has never even heard of, using very bloody advanced even for current times - realtime audio filtering which has continued to be adapted and improved over many years.
The fact you think they should cost $100 let alone could be made for that is laughably ignorant.
But by all means, go buy a cheap chinese headset, strap an audio processor and some batteries to your forehead. I won't laugh at you, I will genuinely feel sorry for you.
12,000 euro's or about $13,600, you might as well buy a real car for that much.
Implying that it's not a real car despite the ability to transport people and their belongings from A to B?
What is a real car? Does it need balls dangling from the towball (tow hitch, or whatever Americans call it)? Does it need to belch black soot? Does a real car need a ladder to get in? Or maybe it's not a real car unless it doesn't fit in a standard European parking spot?
is already a bubble car with 200hp. No need for smaller as it serves both as a tiny car and easy parking and I can drive it comfortably for 1000km and have power to have fun.
26MPG. Abysmal. Give me something smaller with an electric engine over your mass produced toy anyday.
Jokes aside there's very little water you can drown in in much of the country. Many drownings happen at the beach and in swimming pools. But that's why I along with everyone else pay 300EUR / year in dyke maintenance fees. Living 6m below sea level makes that money seem worthwhile.
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However, regulations requiring EnergyStar compliance at worst might slightly increase the cost of the appliance or device
Good. We should collectively stop fucking the environment to save a dollar.
Appliances are all junk now that require you to buy insurance from the store just to ensure that they make it to five years of operation.
Huh? Maybe you should come to the EU where there are mandatory minimum warranty periods and things generally seem to be of higher quality (comparing to your comment anyway).
This is the first good thing I have ever known to come out of the EU
That says more about you than it does the EU.
If a device lasts longer then they don't have to go to as much effort as frequently to download their spyware to your phone.
Medicinal marijuana clearly has side-effects.
*less waste. Fuck it's 3am and bedtime.
Of course the actual solutions to climate change
Are a lovely mix. You don't need to be living in the stone age, but you don't need to go rolling coal down the street, leaving your A/C on 20C while you're out, and have the TV running in an empty room either.
We can do with a lot more waste while we adopt our newer technology.
The entire PC / laptop market had its origins in "clones."
Not at all even remotely on point. "Clones" were defined by their functionality. The capability of running the same software or being able to perform in the same way.
What it wasn't was a visual copy. If anything the "clones" were the ones that started driving changing styles and innovation, the exact opposite of what is happening in this case.
She also barcoded herself for her own convenience?
You just described the very excuses businesses will use (loss/theft) in order to take away the option of choice.
Sweden is not the third world. Employees have rights and protections.
Build one. Give it a go. Let's see how much of a rip off you think it is by the time you finish the R&D for an incredibly low volume piece of gear.
Good headphones can last a decade; but their cables rarely do.
They are headphones, not a lasso. You must be using them wrong. May I suggest you buy my headphones? Firstly the headphone cable is replaceable, and secondly you'll quickly realise you can't use them as a lasso when they go flying away while you mistreat your shit.
Mind you as an Apple fan you probably don't know what strain relief is since the fruity nutcases decided they didn't look good leading to http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-...
How about we just buy a phone that we don't have to go through all that bullshit on straight out of the box? Why is that a hard ask?
It's not a hard ask. People just seem oblivious to the fact you can hard disable the crapware and have been able to do so for several years.
Actually Facebook is the smallest app on my phone. ... Well Facebook Lite is anyway. It's actually quite impressive in that it isn't just a portal to the website yet it has all the basic functionality you need in Facebook without the stupid fuckery like stories, marketplaces, games, and shit that no one ever uses.
Now I'm just trying to find a way to run Windows 10 IoT edition for my main desktop OS and I'll be sweet.
there is no way it meets the safety standards for a car. It is likely being classified as some other vehicle type
Define a car. Each car has different safety standards. A truck has different ones from sedans, has different ones from hatchbacks, has different ones from whatever. Mind you in the EU there is already a NCAP classification called "Quadricycle" and it has vehicles in it far smaller than what is being proposed here, and yet far safer than an car you drove 15 years ago.
By the way what do you need all this safety for? Do you intend to drive a bubble down the german autobahn weaving between giant trucks? The thing is, cars serve a purpose, the type of purpose served by bubble cars or e.g. the two Renault Twizys parked in my office carpark is typically small short commutes. You're not competing with Volvo S90s for safety. You're not competing with 5 series BMWs or Ford F150s. You're competing with mopeds, motorbikes, trikes, and similar class cars. You're buying something you're unlikely to ever take on an interstate or into an industrial area. Hell chances are you'll never leave a 50km/h zone in one of these, and for those purposes it's safe enough.
Now I understand the thought of a scenario like this may be foreign to Americans, but it is very real in Europe. My nextdoor neighbours are close to retirement and never even got driver's licenses, and that's not actually uncommon where I live. So there's a very large range of use cases between people who never need to drive and people who must own a tank to get around safely.
No. I do however have two friends who are biomedical engineers who do work for hearing aid companies and thus know quite a few people in the industry and how it works, and I briefly interned at a hearing aid company while at University as well.
You think you can produce something for closer to $100? Do it! No seriously DO IT! You would corner the market. You would instantly push out all competition. ... You would also very quickly file for chapter 11 and learn a valuable life lesson, namely that designing and building quality and highly customisable low volume equipment which needs to meet standards is actually incredibly fucking expensive.
there's a min 60km/h speed limit.
Something which has never been a problem for even the smallest of electric cars.
Two things.
1: I've never seen someone use a double -- at the end, and
2: In many european countries we don't delimit the thousand.
for a form fitted earbud of questionable quality
There's nothing questionable quality about most of the hearing aids out there. They are often incredibly well manufactured to specs Dr Dre has never even heard of, using very bloody advanced even for current times - realtime audio filtering which has continued to be adapted and improved over many years.
The fact you think they should cost $100 let alone could be made for that is laughably ignorant.
But by all means, go buy a cheap chinese headset, strap an audio processor and some batteries to your forehead. I won't laugh at you, I will genuinely feel sorry for you.
A good portion of my daily commute is done on road with a 110 km/h speed limit.
Cool story. 100% of my partner's commute doesn't exceed 50km/h
It's almost like there's different use cases for different people.
Side note: My doctor is 65 years old and has never had a drivers license. He commutes to work just fine too.
12,000 euro's or about $13,600, you might as well buy a real car for that much.
Implying that it's not a real car despite the ability to transport people and their belongings from A to B?
What is a real car? Does it need balls dangling from the towball (tow hitch, or whatever Americans call it)? Does it need to belch black soot? Does a real car need a ladder to get in? Or maybe it's not a real car unless it doesn't fit in a standard European parking spot?
is already a bubble car with 200hp. No need for smaller as it serves both as a tiny car and easy parking and I can drive it comfortably for 1000km and have power to have fun.
26MPG. Abysmal. Give me something smaller with an electric engine over your mass produced toy anyday.
I can see two of these from my office window sitting in our company carpark: https://www.renault.de/modellp...
Don't be silly. This would be a "lifehack". Normal hacking is for nerds.
And yet you think you're qualified to be a car designer?
Given the buttons I see on my dashboard, yes I think he's qualified.
Jokes aside there's very little water you can drown in in much of the country. Many drownings happen at the beach and in swimming pools. But that's why I along with everyone else pay 300EUR / year in dyke maintenance fees. Living 6m below sea level makes that money seem worthwhile.