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My elderly mother has trouble gripping the ice cold handles of a shopping trolley, so this is a simple idea to enable them to have heated handles.
The heat could easily be generated by storage batteries that are re-charged when the trolley is parked. Don't want/need the heat? - an "off" switch takes
care of that!
trolley
http://newsimg.bbc....-trollies203get.jpg
[po, Dec 03 2009]
An easier solution
http://stores.optim.../pipeInsulation.jpg
Pipe Insulation [rocdoc, Dec 04 2009]
BRENNEKE
http://www.brennekeusa.com/
Remarkably persuasive [8th of 7, Dec 04 2009]
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+ oh yeah, this is great! I bet it would dry off the wet ones left out in the rain, too. + |
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sainsbury's trolleys have a plastic covering to the handle which isn't cold - the norm here I think |
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Well so do Asda's but they are still cold. In fact regardless of the material, all handles stored under the same conditions will be of the same temperature. |
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[Smut Alert!]
It's always nice to have a warm pair of hands inside your cold trolleys. +[/SA] |
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They could simply activate when a certain part of the handle is gripped. Then they're auto-off and only on when needed. A master switch could turn them hard off for when the weather is warm. |
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Hey po, stroke me - I'll warm your hands |
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When you reach the age of 91 and have painful hands for various reasons, you will be able to reflect better on the benefits of warm handles. |
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[+] but WTF, she's 91 and pushing her own shopping cart ? Where are you while this is going on, riding in the basket ? |
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Made me laugh - clinging unto her back actually! (in reality she pushes the trolley because she likes the support, whilst I bark out directions and other commands.... like "mammy, mammy mammy buy me more nutella" - and she replies "Quit yer gernin or I'll give ye a skite!" |
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an easier solution would be to buy a 2 foot length of flexible foam pipe insulation to slip on the cart handle. Sanitary too! |
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That insulation pipe would do nothing to warm the hands. |
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Will you go away now, or would you prefer internal hemorrhaging ? |
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What does "go away" mean? |
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<sound of Mossberg pump-action 12-gauge chambering a 3-inch magnum Brenneke slug round> |
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"Vous comprenez, M'sieu ?" |
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