Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
My 3 favorite activities.
They sold the rights to make the magic wand about a decade ago. No longer Hitachi, alas.
Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.
I thought Magic Wands were used almost exclusively for holesome activities.
Nice
You’re not supposed to put that thing into your hole.
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Seems like it would be a violent torturous way to make orifices much larger than they’re supposed to be 😳
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Says who?
You gonna tell?
Just like TI… They no longer make the famous calculator
Well that makes sense, he had to focus on his music career.
Get off my lawn
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Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
They fucked up San onofre so bad it’s now being decommissioned 😡
https://newsroom.edison.com/stories/sce-formally-serves-mitsubishi-with-notice-of-dispute
It was a $680mill job, and SoCal Edison (SCE) had such an inept legal team, they missed a term in the contract with Mitsubishi which limited payout for failure within the 20yr warranty to $125mill.
Can you fucking believe that shit? I only found this out after investigating why there was a $3 “decommissioning fee” on my first electric bill after moving to California.
“Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?”
ACs, planes, CNCs, and solar and wind energy, too.
But like many Japanese corporations, they are legally distinct but interlocked companies, see Keiretsu.
and plastic. I CNC Mitsubishi plastic with a Mitsubishi controlled machine.
funny how that works, but it do be like that.
Just Zaibatsu things…
Mitsubishi and GE can beat that.
GE
They own the Sheinhardt Wig Company and NBC!
They also make trains, industrial and automotive components and some random bullshit for the military I can’t remember
Funnily, they no longer make either of these products. The glass jar division was sold decades ago, and the aerospace sector was purchased by BAE last year. Ball is still the largest manufacturer of aluminum cans, however. They also make plastic bottles.
I like their idea of aluminum cups, but the boxes they come in are unfortunately made from plastic coated paperboard. (Not sure why, with their whole selling point being more environmentally friendly.)
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Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it’s touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.
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We’ve been storing and drinking beverages in aluminum cans for like a century now and this hasn’t been a big problem.
It’s a big enough problem that products are sold and even given away specifically to combat the issue.
Also, the aluminum drink can was invented in 1959, and the koozie started becoming a thing in the early 70s. But I’m sure people were insulating their cans with DIY koozies before then.
Did you know you can get pint glass koozies, just like for cans?
Eg
We also have those nice paper sleeves for coffee cups that would do the job as well. At least where you touch.
So it’s an already-solved problem for this application.
Well, plastic lined cans, though i’m not sure that affects the thermal properties significantly. And beer coozies exist for a reason.
Sure but isn’t it mostly for camping equipment? Don’t really see why you would use it when strength/weight isn’t much of a concern.
Soft drinks and beer have been in aluminum cans for like a century at least.
Yeah, for sure. Though if you drink it fast enough, it won’t warm the drink noticeably before it’s gone.
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I used to make, consume and share a lot of frozen beverages. I had a set of aluminum cups that I loved, but everyone else hated them because they started frosting over as soon as the frozen drink was poured in. My then girlfriend, now wife, would only use them with a towel wrapped around them for insulation.
Oof. I think I lean more toward her side, to be honest. I don’t like having cold hands.
I didn’t begrudge her the right to be warm, but it did make the cups look a lot less pretty. The ones I had were shaped differently, but basically this:
I got them at a thrift shop, so no clue what brand they were. I think I technically still have them somewhere but have only used them once any time even remotely recently.
Those do look really nice, for sure. They’d make great snack cups.
If you’re sitting in hot bleachers, the cooling effect on your hand or forehead is pretty nice, and you’re gonna drink the drink before it’s warm anyway. Hot is more of a problem unless you’re cold enough to be wearing mittens.
Yeah I have some and they 100% require a koozie/beverage sleeve.
Most people think “oh, cup so cold, my drink stay cold!”
Capitalism baby! If nobody buys your environmentally friendly aluminum cups they won’t do much good, and people are more likely to buy a product with “luxurious” feeling packaging. They’re likely still a net benefit vs plastic solo cups, but the market leads to perverse incentives.
Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?
those aluminum cups make milk taste fantastic. also taste colder for some reason.
Ever heard of Big Deal Custom Cases? They’re a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba who started out making road cases for musicians before diversifying into laptops, field equipment, basically anything breakable anyone needed to carry from one place to another.
Imagine what they thought when NASA phoned them up to build giant cases to carry the sails for the James Webb Space Telescope from the manufacturer to their headquarters.
What the hell I thought they were just a local place that does work vehicle retrofits and other small stuff. That’s awesome.
Yeah! I didn’t know until I visited with a friend of Gary Dealy (nicknamed Big Deal.) They have framed photos of the whole process. You should ask about it if you’re in there, Gary told us the whole story. Very nice, cool, hilarious people.
I’ve had one of their cases for my Epiphone for 20+ years now, I’ll be dead long before that thing ever needs replaced.
Does it really have a resting shocked Pikachu face?
Only from that perspective, the “eyes” are on the supports for the sensor in front of the mirrors
It knows it’s going to see some shit
It does
Honestly, I really love glass. What a fantastic material.
I’ve been getting into stained glass lately. The textures and the various “dichroic” styles and swirly colorful patterns on some of them are absolutely amazing. I’m really lucky to live near a giant place that deals specifically in stained glass and it’s a treat for the eyes just to look at all the beautiful glass they have there.
I took a class on Tiffany style. Super cool stuff. Expensive for the material, but the skill level to get started and have something decent is super low. Glad I learned about it!
Nice!! Love that style!
I took a copper-foil stained glass beginners course and turned out a pretty nice 1st attempt. Very excited to see what else i can do… Just in the process of gathering the needed tools and materials to start making some pieces in my own little shop…
you might enjoy this video (Angela Collier - the most important material in science) https://youtu.be/1eUI38MpiYo
A bra company made NASA’s spacesuits.
I saw a documentary about that which was a total hoot. From some stiff necked old coot talking about “At Hamilton Standard we made propellers and transmission gearboxes for military and commercial applications. They made brassieres.” To this sharp old girl talking about “I was making baby pants and they asked me if I wanted to try something different. They put me in charge of quality control, and I issued each girl color coded pins. I was examining one suit, and I found a red pin, so I looked up who was issued the red pins and I went over to her and said “Here’s your pin” and I stuck her in the behind with it.”
I like to think those two are married.
Would love to know the name of the doc if you can remember!
Moon Machines Episode 5.
That’s a great story.
Of curse, today the supervisor would be arrested and put on a terrorist watch list.
Two cups in the front, two loops in the back. How do they do it?
Is there any situation where Seinfeld is inappropriate?
When picking up his teenage girlfriend at her high school.
Those things are feats of engineering!
Spacesuits are cool too I guess.
They had me at “unladylike karate chops” 🤣
See the whole movie.
honeywell: has home thermostats also honeywell: need defense/data center/aerospace industry products?
Honeywell licenses their name for consumer products. They dont actually make that stuff anymore.
Same with Ball and canning jars.
And that’s only naming a few.
I have a cheap Honeywell soundbar. It’s quite crappy but enough for podcasts.
And just about half of all beverage cans in the world.
Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar… Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.
John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?
Muncie, Indiana
iswas the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.If you don’t have a Ball cookbook, do you really cook?
But what style is a Ball Jar?
If Ball makes a Mason jar, its still a Mason jar, so are all other jars made by Ball just ambiguously “Ball” jars? Or is there a specific design that is referred to as a Ball jar?
Well, currently Ball doesn’t make any jars, as I understand it. And I don’t think it’s in Muncie anymore either. So the term is just a holdover.
Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!
Ball doesn’t even make Mason jars anymore, though.
Corning: dinner plates, Gorilla glass, space shuttle windows
And fiber optic cables!
This is like General Mills, the cereal company, also designing DSV Alvin, the deep sea submersible.
Lol balls
Thank you for this, i had the reverbed “balls” in my head with kurtis’ silly face
Even the telescope looks surprised!
See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.
Ball was spun off and is a subsidiary of Rubbermaid.
