I find elegance in simplicity. If something is simple, but works as well as something more complicated, I prefer the simple. What's more, if you are buying, the simple tends to be both cheaper and more reliable.
And so I share with you, a picture of this little garden sprinkler that I bought the other day, that delivers an even spray of water over a circular area, with no moving parts. I think it works on the basis of a turbulent flow of water around a vortex, that somehow creates the random distribution of droplet speeds that you need for that to work.
5 euros each, and on sale, probably because no-one believes they work. I'm going to get another one.
Friday, 6 September 2013
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Where are they on sale? If there's a branch near frends I'll ask them to buy a job lot for us for Spain.
Hi Helen, the one I bought was on sale at the Espace Emeraud in Evron. I don't know if other branches of this chain have them, but I think they'd be worth a look.
The best ideas are always simple and straightforward... alas, we are conditioned to see simplicity as somehow suspicious.
Completely agree - part of the design process of late was getting the things which moved simple, removing the complications.
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