EEVblog #69 - Sex Toys, Telescopes, Cable TV, UHF Modulation, Renewable Energy, & Silly Shower Taps

Dave goes on holidays to Hawaii and rants a little bit about a variety of things, yet ultimately manages to tie Sex Toys, big Telescopes, Cable TV, NTSC, UHF Modulation, Renewable Power Generation, and bad product design together in the one blog.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sex
• toys
• shopping
• shop
• cable
• tv
• telescopes
• mauna
• kea
• ntsc
• renewable
• power
• generation
• hydro
• wind
• solar
• shower
• tap
• product
• design

[DagGirl]

You think that TV is ancient? I watch my regular, non-digital, free-to-air programmes on a pre-VCR, late 1970s model Rank Arena television set. I have to lift my ass to change the channel and volume ffs!

(Upside, outlasted all other TV's in my house).

[EEVblog]

@DagGirl Love it!

[baddspella]

your wifes cute ;)

[eydryan]

you just made me deaf Dave. windy up there :P you should've just narrated it afterwards.

haha, loved the odyssey music :D

Really nice episode, really liked it :)

[Riskteven]

11:30 I have a such tap and I live in Sweden. I agree! It is incredibly nuts! Really! I got the whole room sprinkled once because that darn knob stuck! I realized that if you _twist_ the knob, it is locked in the out position! Crazy!

[ph7ryan]

You are like the crocodile hunter of electronics!

[CoolDudeClem]

Even nuclear energy is better than burning fossil fuels, sure it's not renewable and is dangerous and poisonous if not enough care is taken, but at least won't run out as quick as fossil fuels.

[fingerboy18]

Off the coast of Denmark, they have a very pretty wind farm. It produces an insane amount of power. I'm American and I say we should get rid of all the fossil fuels and switch to nuclear, wind, and solar power. I'm sick of coal plants releasing smog and radiation into our air.

[TheChipmunk2008]

@sfbox You used to be able to put your hand over the end of the tap and force cold water back into the hot water system... I never did this while anyone was in the shower, that would have been evil :-)

I lived in the US for 5 years, and I did find the system a lot better with mains pressure hot water from the tank in the basement.

The 'pull to switch to shower' routine is definitely a hotel thing, I've seen it in hotels in the UK too

[sfbox]

@TheChipmunk2008 :) Thanks for the explanation. It is good to understand what is behind that the design is like it is.

[TheChipmunk2008]

@sfbox The reason for the mixer taps like that in the UK is because traditionally we had gravity fed hot water but mains cold water, so the cold was at a much higher pressure. Things are getting better now, but there are still rules about connecting hot and cold together inside the system (you need backflow preventers and suchlike).

I agree though, the mixing outside the tap really sucks

[Dms12444]

I would agree that Wind power MIGHT ruin the coastline if there are hundreds of them. But Solar and Hydro power would have no such effects, and whats more I find it extremely odd that they don't use any of this; especially when there sitting on top of a giant generator. The Islands themselves could be used to produce Geothermal energy.

[LaughTonyLaugh]

Hey, I totally agree with those style of taps they really suck. When it comes to that I think people are really susceptible to fads of all kinds. Luckily my house doesn't have them. Its bad design. We definitely have to many damn channels I don't understand them when most people watch 2-3 channels at most. When it comes to those cables too your right, but in the states power of the dollar dictates how things are done, and its cheaper to hang then to put in the ground. Anthony