Robots are cool

Had a shower this morning, sitting on the bath seat thing as usual. Took my brace to put it back on when the top metal part fell off. Not cool. Closer inspection revealed a proper crack on the plastic bit too. Hmmm.

It felt a little shaky at Stuart’s house last night and now it was decidedly limp. Luckily my Mum and Dad were around to hunt out a replacement bolt and after a 20 minute service in the bath it was good to go.

This isn’t the first time I’ve wondered if the designers of this brace have ever bothered to try the thing on. There are bolts going into nuts that are imposible to grip, one set that you can only do up hand tight and your ribs get bruised by another set. Usuability testing seemed not to apply to this product. Ack well, 5 weeks to go…

Off into Edinburgh now to discuss data structuring and interface design with Mike which should be cool.