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As a person of greater than average height I have a lot of trouble with cash machines, door handles, desks, shopping trolleys etc. The relative low positioning of these items makes use difficult and is harmful to my posture.
But at the same time, I am aware that there are people who are shorter
than me (mainly because the spokes of their umbrellas keep lacerating my throat) and that if all these items were positioned higher, then they'd have to wear stilts.
So, to prevent my walking like a wizened old geezer at the age of 26 and to prevent short people falling from their stilts and cracking their knees on the pavement, make every item of public "fixtures, fittings & furniture" height adjustable.
Adjustable Drinking Fountain
http://www.halfbake...Drinking_20Fountain by dbsousa. Wherein snarfyguy promised me a dollar. [my face your, Oct 05 2004]
Throw this on the heap...
http://www.halfbake...rgonomic_20Peephole [k_sra, Oct 05 2004]
Vertical positionable hand-drier
http://www.halfbake...onable_20hand-drier by FloridaManatee. A different motivation but a similar consequence. [my face your, Oct 05 2004]
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ATM's - the floor should be adjustable so that you descend (to the depth of your liking) similar to
the coming and goings of organists in the cinemas of yesteryear. |
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I think that it would be cheaper to
make the small number of
abnormally tall people adjustable,
rather than to make everything
that they are likely to use
adjustable. |
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Kind of a "you too" idea, isn't it? |
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Kind of but not entirely. |
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I thought it was a bit of a pre-emptive strike - I've certainly never seen height-adjustable public "fixtures, furniture and fittings" - and figured that if I could cover all of them in one idea then we wouldn't be living in fear of a plague of "height adjustable X" ideas. |
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Actually, that's all lies. I just want my dollar. |
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How small are you, krelknicks ? |
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come on back to back. I will measure you both. |
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[mfy]: "It's in the mail." |
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Too much hassle. The last thing I want is getting stuck with the shopping cart thats stuck on "gigantor" mode/"inumanly tiny" mode. (you thought having a shopping cart with a gimp wheel was bad) |
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I'm a pretty short person. I will post another rant: make everything retractable as well!!! Or... I can hire [mfy] to carry me around on his shoulders when I go to concerts and pass me the stuff on the higher shelves of the fridge ... how bout that? |
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Ha! Serves you right, you bloody giant freaks. |
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The biggest opportunity is cars. Everything else might be difficult to adjust, but more than once I've found myself in a tiny car thanking my stars that this particular person installed a sunroof because I'm way out there. Now, I'm not suggesting sunroofs (I might be comfortable, but in an accident they'll find the top of my head nicely severed), but height adjustable seats ought to be a safety feature, not a pricey option. It's the torso height, not the legs, not the legs, that's the problem here. |
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I'm sure short people have car horror stories too. |
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These problems would all go away if everyone would walk on all fours
like The Kat, for instance. |
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We had a very tall (7' 6") model at
my life drawing class once - I felt
like getting another sheet of
paper. |
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[po], it took me a full day to fathom //shoelaces//. |
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[snarfyguy], I believe you. Thousands wouldn't. |
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[Pericles], I'll perform those services, if you pay me into the concerts. Despite living in the city with probably the most stunted average height in Europe, there is always - *always* - someone taller than me at concerts. On the rare occasions that I cannot spot them immediately, I become nervous like a small boy without his security blanket. |
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[waugs], this idea isn't just for us //bloody giant freaks// it's for the shortarses, too. Equality, see? |
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you are quick MFY, it took me two. |
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You lot are so jealous of the way I am double-jointed and flexible and Cool and Gorgeous. Am buggaring off before 8/7 gets back. |
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