Purple Monkey Dishwasher

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That is truly some of the most creative engineering I’ve ever seen. Like, my brother designs airplane wings for fighter jets. Which is cool… but wings haven’t changed much in decades. He’s kind of a… re-engineer. (Sorry, bro.)

Whereas a custom built machine that sharpens dozens of pencils at once must have had some interesting trial and error problem-solving. How did they settle on this design and what other designs did they try?

Or how did they make this ice cream sandwich masturbation mechanism. 

I want to see the messy test footage of ice cream going everywhere on the beta version. 

Who engineers these things? How are they built? How much do they cost?