your terrible ideas

Pb bru - trust me, it's just peanut butter!

Portable, cybertruck-looking, woodfired pizza ovens seem to be fashionable. I want to design and sell a "usb fired" miniature version for warming pop tarts and hot pockets called the "yoozbee dorbin".

i googled "usb oven" and found that many others have already acted on your terrible idea :(

look, you gotta get a dorbin though: *cross-section of the dorbin with many circulating orange arrows indicating engineering was done*

https://www.gadgetreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/beanzawave-portable-microwave.jpg

Unlike conventional microwave ovens, the Beanzawave uses a combination of mobile phone radio frequencies to heat the inserted food or liquid

I don't know enough about how microwaves work and the radiation spectrum to know if this is actually a terrible idea, but it certainly seems like a terrible idea. Dorbin>>>Beanzawave

People of my age and class and temperament are like, "you mean a Holly Hobby oven?"

Funny that if you spell the name on that disposable cup backwards, it's STOP PANS.

EVAWAZNAEB
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i notice the letter Q is conspicuously absent, hmmm

Unlike conventional microwave ovens, the Beanzawave uses a combination of mobile phone radio frequencies to heat the inserted food or liquid
I don't know enough about how microwaves work and the radiation spectrum to know if this is actually a terrible idea, but it certainly seems like a terrible idea. Dorbin>>>Beanzawave

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, September 10, 2020 7:31 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

they probably do that because of the availability of small, cheap, and efficient microwave sources for phones. microwave ovens use larger non-chip sources with metal waveguides and other parts that would be hard to fit in this small package. you don't want a source frequency that will be strongly absorbed by water because you'd just heat the outer surface of whatever you're warming up. so cell phone spectra work for that, otherwise your signal wouldn't reach the tower.

every microwave oven is a metal resonator with standing waves inside, which creates hotspots. the cell spectrum uses longer wavelengths, so the hotspots in the beanzawave are spaced further apart, which is bad. you can picture the resonant modes as concentric rings in the top down view and sinusoidal from top-to-bottom. I think most regular microwave ovens have a "mode stirrer" after the source so that you don't just excite one resonance of the metal cavity, which would make the hotspots worse. you could think of the spatial cavity modes as your basis set. each mode has fixed nodes or coldspots, but ideally you can add up the modes with different hot/cold spots to heat a more uniform space. the beanzawave's smaller cavity means that there are fewer cavity modes and this would make the hot/cold spots worse. That's why they use a combination of frequencies - to try and fill in some more coldspots because the hotspots will shift spatially for each source frequency.

a microwave oven's source also requires a much larger voltage that would be hard to achieve with a USB source, especially in small space.

Sufjan I am assuming you have seen this https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/microwave-oven-diagnostics-with-indian-snack-food/

i have not, but that is cool! you get the concentric rings in that case because of the rotating plate. the beanzawave will get them from the cylindrical cavity shape.

i wish so badly to be a professor someday so that i can solve for the "beanzawave modes" in an Emag course

May have to settle for being in a band called the Beanzawave Modes

we've gotta mode these beanzawave ovens

bless you all

Lulz @ Dr. C.

this has brought me great joy, especially “beanzawave modes”

EVAWAZNAEB
STOP
PANS
ZNIEH

― Karl Malone, Thursday, September 10, 2020 8:11 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

STOP
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SMEE

Fed up of being Rickrolled? How about being Rickyrolled?

Youtube ads are ruining the 'roll

They are literally pre-roll ads.

Time to license the song and use it in a YouTube ad

i am blocking ads so i got properly 'rolled. never gonna give you up was on in the gym yesterday!

was playing pokemon go with kids this morning, and thought of a similar game where you are the coronavirus and you have to infect all the Republican politicians at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement in the Rose Garden, "gotta catch em all!" etc.

a fake conservative meme with hunter biden's face pasted over Gunther from Friends face at central perk. Rachel's head would be replaced with a briefcase overflowing with $100 bills. The side of the briefcase says 'LOBBYING CASH' and the caption is 'Gunther Bitin'.

Chopsticks with pencil-style erasers on them. So you can eat something but then change your mind.

(Could also work with drumsticks, so if you flub a note you can just erase it.)

As I woke up this morning, I had an idea for a standup comedy routine built around the idea that modern products/appliances are too high tech/internet connected. I'd start with a joke along the lines of "So I woke up this morning, went to brush my teeth...I couldn't, toothbrush wasn't working. ...Got an error message saying I had to update the operating system." I'd continue on "So then I go down for breakfast to make myself toast, and my toaster said it was 'downloading updates, 54% complete.'" But it would just continue on with that same joke premise for like an hour, following the mundane details of my entire day. "Got in my car to drive to work, but the engine wouldn't start. Said the wifi signal was too weak." etc.

Delivered with a slow, grumpy "can you believe this shit?" tone, with lots of pacing back and forth and long pauses for laughs.

thanks i hate it https://t.co/etOwb6d3Yx

— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) October 12, 2020

hahaha amazing, I really thought picking "toothbrush" was a safe bet for a joke

yeah, posted in the last week as well. interesting examples on the account, cars that are effectively bricked because OTA updates failed because they were parked underground...

what is the DEAL with the internet of things? *laugh track* *bass*

https://tribzap2it.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/andy-rooney-cbs.jpg?w=550&h=380

fwiw when we got our most recent car we actually did have a glitch where we couldn't use basic features like the radio because there was a GPS problem and we couldn't get past the GPS error message on the touch screen. And I genuinely do hate internet of things.

I have a terrible idea and it's called Quibi 2 (or perhaps New Quibi). It's just like the old Quibi except you need to buy a dedicated portable device to watch it. And there isn't any way to connect headphones so you have to use the built-in speakers. And they're LOUD (no volume control, sorry).

the Q-phone

You can't receive content, you can only send content.

This is some kick-ass Quib.

QuibX

After being bombarded with YouTube ads for Hankook Tyre (cue footage of supercars doing burnouts and donuts), I came up with this: a remake of Hancock's Half Hour that constantly shoehorns in references to Hankook Tyres ("A pint? That's nearly half a tyre full!") called Hankook's Half Hour. Or as the character Hankook (played by Danny Dyer or Dean Gafney or someone equally unsuited) would say it at the beginning of each episode "Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhankook's Half Hour".

I’m American and I don’t know what any of those things are

you should really check out youtube silby, at least

lol

a turkish spice company with justin bieber as its spokesperson called justin biber

I bought some pul biber for the first time recently, there's a store here called Pull & Bear and both of them keep mutating into something like pul and beiber

a turkish spice company with justin bieber as its spokesperson called justin biber

actually no, it would have to be

cöstın biber

temperamental horse a.i. for electric bicycles where you need to feed and take care of it like a tamagotchi

Horse eBikes

lol