Flexible Glasses and TurboFlex Hinges

I'd really like some memory metal glasses.





They also have these 360 swiveling hinges called TurboFlex.

Laser Welding for Eyeglasses

I managed to break my eyeglasses *again*. I've got to stop doing things like falling asleep with my glasses on and waking up with them broken after I've rolled over on them a couple of times.

Apparently you can have eyeglasses laser welded. I thought this was a cool idea. You mail your glasses to them and get them back in a week.

I didn't have time to wait so I had them repaired locally with solder.


http://www.eyeglassrepairusa.com/lasereyeglassrepair

They might want to change the stock picture of the guy on this page though.


http://www.eyeglassrepairusa.com/serviceareas

My favorite plate - corelle pie plates

I love these corelle pie plates. They're great for soups or juicy stuff because they keep the juice from rolling off your plate. It's not a bowl, or a flat plate, but a fusion of the two.

I got a bunch of these at the corelle factory store. Who says you have to use them for pies?



http://www.walmart.com/ip/Deep-Dish-Plate-Winter-Frost-White/15065033

Kill a watt KWH display bug

I put one of those P3 kill a watt meters on my new refrigerator to see how much power it uses. I leave it in the KWH display mode because that's all I'm really interested in. What I notice is that when the KWH goes over 99.99 that it displays 1.00 instead of 100 and doesn't update the decimal point. I've got one of the newer kill a watts that computes the cost per year and it does the same thing in the KWH display mode.

Cycling through the display mode resets the decimal.

I know it's minor but just one of those things the designer overlooks.

ptouch pt-d200 7v or 9v

So I got a pt-d200 and was trying it with a 9v brother adapter and it doesn't light up. The plug is labeled 9v, it uses 6 AAA batteries (for 9v) but if I plug in a 9v power supply it plays dead.

Now if I plug in a 7V brother power supply, no problem. It's happy with 7V.

I see the same thing with the PT-1880. It's labeled 7-9V but it only lights up with the 7V power supply.

Go figure.

One day I plugged a 9v supply into a PT-1750 (which requires 7V) and it displayed "CHANGE ADAPTER" and shut itself off.