Over Engineered

Sometimes things are just over engineered. Not even sure that is the correct expression to use as it may be argued that they are under-engineered. The item I'm thinking about is the razor and what made me consider this was buying replacement blades for a Gillette Fusion - a 4 blade razor that vibrates.......

Great to market and create a real fuss about. The problem is the blades are so close together that they get clogged very easily - the vibration doesn't help here. Also, the price of replacement blades is double that of more normal units. So I bought a Wilkinson Protector 3 with 5 spare blades for the price of just 4 replacement blades for the Fusion. There is something completely wrong there somewhere........

The thing is - the Wilkinson Protector 3 gives a better finish - so there you have it a far better more balanced piece of engineering that just gets the job done. Not so sure that there is a marketing line in that though................

Links

After saying that I had come across a corrupted link, I'd like to know if there are any great Science and Engineering resources that you think we should link to?

Corrupted Link

Every now and again you should check the links that you add to your site. I know that you're not responsible for other site content, but nothing worse than clicking on a link and finding that it gives a problem. Well I just happened to click on a link to a site that we had included, luckily McAfee immediately warned me that the site was running software that was trying to gain access to my PC. The site was science.blogdig.net - now maybe there was no major problem, but I really don't want any issues....