RE: My stop sign broke

From: Brock Hinzmann (bhinzmann@sric.sri.com)
Date: Wed Mar 11 1998 - 22:45:07 EET


Steve, we were just finishing up a project on how to design foolproof
products when your message came through. We concluded that there is no such
thing as a foolproof product, but we figured toy companies must be one
industry where someone actually takes the time to test totally inappropriate,
nonintuitive uses for their products, in order to get as close as they can
to foolproof, or at least reducing liability. We now see the kinds of
methods you employ. Thanks for the anecdote.

Brock Hinzmann
Technology Navigator
SRI Consulting
bhinzmann@sric.sri.com
Deak, Steve wrote:
>I broke my stop sign, too (and one of the retaining tabs)! But I
>finished the job by shooting the thing out of a water cannon, now it is
>in 20 pieces! Test now complete. Material fails test.
>
>Still having fun.
>
>____________________________________________________
>Steve Deak e-mail: sdeak@hasbro.com
>Manager-Rapid Prototyping voice: (+1) 513-579-3270
>Hasbro, Incorporated fax: (+1) 513-579-3250
>615 Elsinore Place
>Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 USA "Our Business is FUN!"
>
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: rfzubric@amp.com[SMTP:rfzubric@amp.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 9:18 AM
>> To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>> Subject: My stop sign broke
>>
>> Did anybody elses stop sign toy from the NASUG break? Mine seemed to
>> get extreamly
>> brittle one week later. It could have been the cycling of the material
>> or something
>> else. My stop sign broke then the next day one of my latches broke and
>> I didn't flex
>> them past the plastic state.
>>

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