Monday, March 21, 2011
Not your average Power Tools
(NOTCOT): "Since Lowe’s gave us an excuse to dive deeper and explore the world of home makeovers, remods, etc ~ we decided to kick it off by exploring the designer side of power tools! Thing we want, things to come, things i can’t imagine life without! And these certainly aren’t your usual power drills, sanders, saws and more… and to spice things up, have you ever thought of using your power tool as a regular instrument in your kitchen? Or in your bar? Or how about just to sharpen loads of pencils?
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I always knew that power tool could be used for more than just building. I have often wanted to experiment with a cordless drill and use it for cooking and other things. But I never thought that it could be used for a pencil sharpener, now that's original. The only problem is that I already own a mixer, a corkscrew and pencil sharpener so buying a drill that does this doesn't completely interest me. And I already own a drill. But if all four of them suddenly don't work I guess this would be a pretty good investment. I would also feel weird using a drill when cooking, drills can get pretty dirty after a couple of crew calls. I'm not sure if I would want that preparing my food. But its still a really cool tool.
When I was in junior high, I used to have a poster of the Porche-designed aluminum reinforced P7911 Multihammer hanging on my bedroom wall. Oh wait, my bad. It was a 911 Turbo.
The fact that Porche makes a hammer drill is fascinating to me. I did not even know that they ventured outside of the designer sports car market. I now see they also make iPhone apps and GPS interfaces. Someday I hope to have a key chain with the picture of the Porche aluminum reinforced P7911 Multihammer on it.
From wine bottle opener to pencil sharpener and everything in between. It's nice to see good design interface with good tools. I don't have a clear sense of the tool industry, but it seems like things have stayed pretty static. Sure, technology has improved, we're seeing Li-Ion and even Li-Po battery packs, and neat new features. But it seems like the basic designs, and basic ideas behind tools have remained relatively untouched. Hopefully this trend will continue. I'm not looking to outfit a shop entirely with Porsche branded tools... but maybe having other guys bring the R&D to tool development would help everybody move forward.
YESSSSSSS. My two favorite things; baking and power tools!
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