"A Moose in Love" > wrote in message
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On Jun 1, 3:03 pm, "Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" <atlas-
> wrote:
> Japanese dentist Hideki Watanabe has invented a pot that stirs itself,
> thanks to
> a series of ridges on its sides.
>
> The product is being called Kuru-Kuru Nabe, or ³pot round and round.²
>
> According to a roughly translated article on TV Tokyo, the grooves cause
> the
> water to boil in such a way that creates a vortex. It also produces more
> even
> and efficient heating, and less foaming means the pot is less likely to
> boil
> over.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...-pot_n_1559254....
> ing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl7|sec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D165877

I'm not surprised. You can do some real weird shit with metal. When
I worked at a machine shop here in the area, we made components for
production lines. There was something built by the American Shaker
Company. An operator threw some parts in there, and this hammered out
shaker would shake the parts until they formed themselves into a
uniform position, so that once they got ready to go into the line,
they were all uniform, and could easily be dealt with. Difficult to
explain, but once you saw it, it was like magic. The components that
went onto the line had many facades. They needed to be very uniform
in order to be accepted.

like this stuff: http://www.vibromatic.net/