Stop the presses! Eject! Nuke! There's no denying it's more fun to slap a big red button than to gingerly flip a switch. But browsing the aisles at B&Q, you won't find any such warp actuators among the brushed nickel and light almond plastic light switches.
Enter mechanical engineer Sam Feller, designer of the panic button replacement kit ($24.99, or £15.95). "Any time I see a red button in a machine shop I just want to push it, but we're not supposed to," Feller says. After testing industrial-grade models, he found they were too expensive and not ideal for domestic use. That led Feller down the entrepreneurial path. "If I wanted one so badly, I thought other people might want them as well," he says.
By: Joseph Flaherty, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
Continue reading...
via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/09/panic-button
No comments:
Post a Comment