Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life

Posted by rexercises on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:49AM
from the wired.com dept.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by telesilla on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:30AM (#15097187)

The reference manual itself is fascinating:

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by kwhitefoot on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:26AM (#15097396)

Thank you for finding that. It really is fascinating. Mind you most of the numbers need updating :-)

U.S. 50. %tile weight is now 194.7 lb not 161.9 lb and I suspect that the 97.5 %tile is even worse (but a cursory search didn't find any data).

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by mattlondon on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:32AM (#15097670)

Amazing - thanks.

I thought the reliability statistics for the different dial types was fascinating.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by jweir on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:40PM (#15100529)

This reminds me of this article

How in WWII a statistician noticed there are no average sized humans and the dangers of building for a mythical average.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by seliopou on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:50AM (#15098835)

Available for pre-order but neither the article, nor the product's website, has a ship date estimate.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by patchorang on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:52AM (#15099365)

The Kickstarter says December 2017.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by artur_makly on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:20PM (#15101392)

omg - THATS what that double-tap feature was for?!? i always thought it was a bug.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by DiThi on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:24AM (#15097172)

What are the units?

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by datagram on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:17PM (#15102684)

The FAQ on the Kickstarter page says it has both metric and imperial units.

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by mysterydip on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:20AM (#15097624)

Looks like inches, feet, and pounds

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