Don't tell anybody or everyone will be doing it

I was reading the article "7 headaches - and how to fix them" published in Popular Mechanics and written by Jamie Hyneman, the guy from the TV show MythBusters, and I found the following affirmations I do believe are worthed to be posted here.

(Illustration by Frank Stockton... copied from the original article)

• There are times when innovation produces aggravation, and when that happens, technology can flat out drive us nuts.
• As machines become more complicated, good interface design becomes more essential—you can't just keep adding buttons and menus.
• High-tech companies—stop messing with us on your treadmill of software upgrades while making the old stuff obsolete.
• To my mind, engineering is a high art, and it brings tears to my eyes to see it so disrespected at times by the marketing and legal departments of corporations. Ideally, form is supposed to follow function, and designing and manufacturing consumer products should be a collaborative process. Com­panies, it's time to wake up and pay attention to your engineers—and to your customers.

The best of any of the reader comments I spent time reading says... "Jamie, you have my sympathies, but so do the engineers who are forced but our market-driven society to create items that are incomplete as stand alones, too complex to fix yourself, or include far too many 'extras' to be easily used. My solution is this: become better consumers folks."

Finally, where can I find that "LED flashlight called the Fenix that puts out 1 watt, uses a single AA battery and lasts for months of use" that Jamie mentioned? Maybe, this is the one he is talking about.

'till the next post