[based on a throwaway line in "Obfuscating Shredder"]Basic shredders are not secure enough - you can, with a bit of patience, stick all the bits back together. Cross-cut shredders are better, but what could be more secure than a papier-mâchè modelling shredder?This shredder would cross-cut your documents, mix them with water and glue, scan the operator standing in front of the machine (who has chosen to adopt a pose out of "Saturday Night Fever"), and then mould the papier-mâchè into a tiny model of the operator.When you have enough statues of yourself around the offfice, you can get the machine to make papier-mâchè models of logs for burning in your fireplace.-- hippo, Jan 27 2004 For [wagster] https://www.youtube...watch?v=1zLMBAl-aqQ..." To all my friends ! " [normzone, Sep 01 2015] xkcd https://xkcd.com/2369/Today's XKCD cartoon! [hippo, Oct 08 2020] 3d printing using paper maché https://newatlas.co...p-3d-printer/57153/ [xenzag, Oct 08 2020] This is fantastic!-- calum, Dec 29 2005 excellent. happy new year, hippo.
<holds hand up> put your mod hat on for a mo. why is this idea not emboldened in my recent view? I thought it was a churned idea for a few moments.-- po, Dec 29 2005 And if someone steals your information, you know who took it.-- Jscotty, Dec 29 2005 But [po], it's dated early 2004. Good churn, [calum].-- Worldgineer, Dec 29 2005 Duh! how the hell was this ignored for a year?-- po, Dec 29 2005 The same way a lot of good ideas are missed. Like my "Pothole-based GPS calibration" idea posted earlier this month (hint).-- Worldgineer, Dec 29 2005 Timing is everything. Posting during a lull can let a good idea sink unnoticed, and posting during a flurry of good ideas can do the same.
Like all my ideas (hint).-- normzone, Dec 29 2005 odd - I could have sworn this had some annotations betwen Jan '04 and Dec '05-- hippo, Jan 01 2006 I don't think the "Pothole-based GPS calibration" idea was so much ignored as it was left alone out of a strange mix of apathy and exasperation.
At least that's my take on it...-- zigness, Jan 03 2006 I would post them to all my friends so they wouldn't ever have to be without me...-- wagster, May 18 2008 I'd prefer a pinata version, with candy inside. You can then post them to your friends who might harbor negative feeling toward you.-- Worldgineer, May 19 2008 3D printing has made this idea almost do-able now-- hippo, Sep 01 2015 I'll vote for this as long as the glue price is not set to pay the subsidy of the the shredder price.-- wjt, Sep 02 2015 //3D printing has made this idea almost do-able now// Yes indeed....[link] I have been researching 3d printing using glass, and this cropped up amongst other materials. As with many ideas, the HB lead the way.-- xenzag, Oct 08 2020 Have the document scanned and use it to pick the model of what's being printed.
So if it's contract to buy a house, the scanner sees the word "house" repeated more than anything else (nouns only) and it makes a little model of a house. That way you can remember what the document is about by having a collection of these things for a while.
Eventually you could throw them all into the recycling bin after enjoying them for a few months or years.-- doctorremulac3, Oct 08 2020 [Dr R.E. Mulac III] - An intriguing suggestion. Is there though a risk that this would lead to people printing out, and then swiftly shredding, erotic stories?-- hippo, Oct 08 2020 I would feed it with philosophy papers to see what it came out with-- pocmloc, Oct 08 2020 Fine, just don't let it teach itself phenomenology ...-- 8th of 7, Oct 08 2020 //Is there though a risk that this would lead to people printing out, and then swiftly shredding, erotic stories?//
Yes, and unfortunately, I had no control of the visualization of what one of those models might look like. Probably something you wouldn't want to display on shelves in the office.-- doctorremulac3, Oct 08 2020 random, halfbakery