Michael Young's an industrial designer. After over six years of tinkering, he came up with this frigging masterpiece of a prototype: a framing hammer that dispenses nails. If it ever makes it to market, having mashed my digits setting up a nail to be driven into boards an untold number of times, I will be the fist in line to buy this thing.
This nail dispensing hammer is a work of genius
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Patent for a toy turtle operated by houseflies
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Make: a non-patent-infringing enclosure for your 3D printer
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The Bite Helper removes the itch of a mosquito bite in seconds
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