Gadgetory

for thousands of years people spent a lot of time making their clothing in the modern world that isn't necessary but making your own clothing from scratch is very fulfilling knitters often call this going from sheep to shawl there are two major steps in going from sheep - all the first is taking the animal fiber and spinning them into yarn the second is taking that yarn and making it into clothing that second step is pretty easy since every crafts store has knitting needles and the internet is full of free tutorials on knitting everything from socks to sweaters to hats however the first step of spinning the yarn is more difficult the cheapest and oldest way to spin yarn is a drop spindle but using one is slow and difficult humanity greatly improved on the drop spindle over a thousand years ago when they invented the spinning wheel the issue with spinning wheels is they cost many hundreds of dollars so the problem I set out to solve was how in this modern age can I help more people spin yarn so they can feel the pride of making clothing from scratch what I came up with is the electric eel wheel mini the electric eel wheel mini is a very affordable electric spinning wheel it is easy to use because the motor handles twisting the fiber and putting the yarn on a bobbin all you need to do is focus on feeding the fiber to the wheel this adjustable speed control means you can set it to a slow speed while learning and then a fast speed once you are more comfortable with spinning another feature is the tension band this allows you to control how much twist the yarn has those are all the major controls in a full-sized spinning wheel and with this mini wheel you get them at a fraction of the cost as an added bonus this cute mini sized wheel takes up a lot less space and is great for traveling so do you want to try out spinning so you can make your own mittens or shawl from scratch maybe you have a friend or family member you'd like to teach spinning to or perhaps you just want to add a travel friendly spinning wheel to your collection that was a good one hi there my name is Matt Faulkner last summer a new story came across my feed of the tragic incident where falando Castillo lost his life during a traffic stop and that story really impacted me and I thought to myself we can come up with a better solution to help with the process of a police officer and a driver during the interaction of a traffic stop violation of the 26 million traffic stops each year 1.5 million of those end up in some type of force and so this is an important device that I came up with this is called the pullover pouch it's essentially a magnetized document holder you can see the magnets there and the pouch holds all of the drivers credentials in the event of a pullover you simply place it over your car door window and the magnets hold it in place and it notifies the officer that all your credentials are prepared to you're not moving around the vehicle causing alarm the year is 2017 after finally concluding that the word swag is on the way out mankind turns its attention to an even larger problem one that has been looming on the horizon for decades thousands of computer users have been afflicted with the inefficiency of constantly switching between using the keyboard and the mouse it was out of control I mean so much time was being wasted yeah I mean we estimate that the time that it took to move from the mouse to the keyboard could have effectively powered a small outpost on the moon for 38 minutes he rose from research centers around the country attempted to circumvent the problem using a variety of creative techniques for one reason or another however impracticality unfamiliarity all were doomed to failure some of the ideas that came out of this type period were revolutionary but what we needed was someone who could tie them all together and that's where dr. Brook Heusen came in and that's when dichotomy started dichotomy was advertised as an elegant weapon for a more civilized age each half moved independently and functioned as both a keyboard and a mouse eliminating the need to switch between the two ever again when asked how it worked the inventor wrote dichotomy functions using a carefully aligned Kyber crystal in conjunction with the force to enable a perfectly synchronized energetic connection critics argued that he was merely describing a lightsaber to which he responded shut up they're basically the same thing a new age had dawned for mankind through the visionary efforts of dr. Joshua Brooke Heusen an engineer who called himself a doctor because in his own words did you know that you can just buy a lab coat dr. Brooke has it was a revolutionary but it's not like dichotomy just two came together overnight there was a a protracted prototyping period where he pulled all the best ideas together the idea of attaching the mouse to the keyboard came early on but it took time to refine even though one of their innovators had similar ideas dr. Brook Houston was a first to combine the two technologies in a way that felt comfortable and familiar for users and he really set himself up for the success by designing dichotomy in such a way that it was easy and fast to produce I mean if you look at one of the first prototypes you can see it's it's got no curved surfaces no custom components I mean he was just working with what he had eventually dr. Brook Heusen started offering dichotomy through a crowdfunding website called Kickstarter using this very documentary to raise funds for a production run it's interesting you see as I've been compiling a detailed chronology of dichotomy the timeline at this point gets really convoluted it seems dr. Brook Heusen in order to engage viewers more with his Kickstarter video tried to insert a self referencing joke that somehow included time travel and it really just wasn't funny most scholars of the time period that's really just me but anyway most scholars of the time period attribute this to the fact that while dr. Brook Heusen was a formidable engineer he did not have a made-up degree in advertising fearing backlash from not including a lot of technical details in his Kickstarter video dr. Brook Houston compiled them in text form lowered down on the Kickstarter page so all the people watching who wanted to use a different key layout or needed to know exactly what type of mechanical switches were available could find out today Joshua's Kickstarter is still alive indicating that this documentary may have been created prematurely he needed your help to fund dichotomy or needs your help or maybe sometime in the future we'll need your help we're not sure anymore as we took the time-travel joke way too far but regardless dr. Brooke housing needs your help so that he can make a whole bunch of these things and sell them to people please give him money please you you