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General Science or Chatting? It's a difficult one, but it's certainly technology in the broadest sense.
I have a wonderful solution. The only problem is, I don't really have a good problem that it's a solution to. And a solution without a problem is rather like the sound of one hand clapping.
So, my question, can anyone think of another good problem that this is the solution to. My problem, that of furniture design, appears to be completely irrelevant, as it can be solved by simpler means. In the few years since my solution, I've put out feelers to see if anybody could make money from it, with a resounding silence.
To describe the furniture design problem. It's a shelf system. All panels have identical fingered ends, and are small integer multiples of a length like 300mm or so. The shelves and uprights are in fact identical, except that the shelves run with the 'A' edge facing outwards, and the uprights run with the 'B' edge facing outwards. Together, shelves and uprights are assembled to form a box system. The only form of assembly I have come up with is for the fingers to be drilled through, such that a rod can be passed through the holes when in alignment.
The clever bit? At any point where ends of shelves or uprights join, any number can meet and interlock. Obviously, each end must present 25% or less of its width as protruding fingers for 4 to join in a star. As it happens, they present eaxcatly 25% of the width. However, whether any 3 or any 2 meet at a corner or straight join, the interlock requirement means that at least two fingers on each panel must touch 2 on every other panel, at least one on the inside and one on the outside.
Here's a Lego(tm) model of two shelves interlocking, and you can see by inspection that reversing the fingers will allow two more to interlock in the same space. There are several alternative arrangements of fingers, but they are all trivial reflections and rotations of this unique prototype.
So, as a solution, does it have ground-breaking potential for some other problem, or should I just get out more?
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I have the solution !
