If you think this is cool then let me tell you I have a device cool your room by nasa science 90 degrees 6 seconds. This item is so powerful it can’t even be spelled in stores tried 9 times and realtors refused sell it. This knife is so cool it won’t even overheat the meat in cutting and will help your grandma and dad when they are cooking the food without any problem

This link is showing me how to increase the power of a small engine in a go cart. I’m still gonna watch it but it’s not what I was expecting.

coulda been boneappletea, but it’s more like we’re having a stroke together

I’d imagine the handle is designed to absorb it.

To fix all the RCE bugs, of course!

It doesn’t…

But the kind of people who are impressed by a vibrating knife are also likely to be impressed by the ability to update firmware. They don’t know what firmware DOES, they just know it’s modern.

The incredibly silly true answer is that the software industry’s love for “deploy early, deploy often” has led to all embedded devices shipping with over-the-air (OTA) update support even when it barely makes sense. The earliest units of a given product run will ship with a minimally viable product build that has lots of bugs, but solid OTA.

Fun anecdote: I had a TV backlight die after about 3 years, and the root cause was a shitty embedded app that incorrectly regulated the voltage for the LED strips.

How would it vibrate without wpa3 support?

maybe scientists discovered new frequencies?

It has a battery, so circuity exists for that.

Don’t you think it would vastly improve your stabbing experience if the knife could vibrate the Halloween theme while you’re at it?

That’s what she said.

data gathering

they updated it so it also vibrates in rgb

To show you ads, of course. Duh.

Microphone was a little muffled, fw update supposed to clear that up.

Different frequency and patterns provide different results.

Motor with an eccentric shaft?

if you want to cut something very consistently and not spend much time to do it you use a mandoline

“Hmm, the stab wounds show that this guy was stabbed by an ultrasonic vibrating knife!”

“Really? Those must be rare, what can they sell, maybe a dozen of those per year?”

Remember that I am not a certified lawyer so you shouldn’t take my advice at face value. But, yes.

But when you press the orange button, the knife cuts with up to 50% less effort

Well, up to 50% less effort for that low price? Sign me the fuck up!

JapAnESe sTEeL!!1°!

Then demo cuts the most basic shit any other half decent knife would have no issues with.

we’ve engineered the bolster connection to withstand up to 50 lbs. of pushing force, so you can chop without worry. (Our human arms could only muster 30 lbs. This is why we’re nice to the robot.)

Noodle-armed motherfuckers could only manage 30 lbs of force with their arms?

And the wireless charger is sold separately!

I don’t see accessibility as the main benefit. I see reduced need for sharpening. Yes, you can always sharpen a knife, but it’s not as easy as people pretend. And it’s another chore you have to do.

This test: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PTd98UnJnnU looked fairly objective to me. It’s kinda cool, but not as impressive as most demonstrations (probably shills or “official”) make it out to be. It certainly didn’t pass through the crust of that baguette much cleaner with the vibration on.

Ultrasonic vibrations have been successfully used to make cutting tools more effective for a long time. It doesn’t make the cutting edge sharper or amplify the force, it just moves it back and forth slightly, in microscopic imitations of a cutting motion. That does work. Though at the end of the day it won’t magically make a dull knife sharp.

Ultrasonic vibrations have also been successfully used to get shit off of surfaces for a long time too. It is a common and effective method. Though it usually involves a bit more than just shaking the thing, but still…

Theoretically this knife could very well do both of those things. Probably not well enough to be worth 425 dollars, but probably entire useless either.

Even with ultrasonic vibrations things will stick because things are elastic and sucktion.

Eh, perhaps not.

Ultrasonic vibration causes tiny cavitation bubbles to form at the interface between metal and liquid, and then those bubbles collapse a tiny second of a fraction later … quite violently. If it’s well designed, then it should clean stuff off of itself just like materials you put in an ultrasonic cleaner.

But these cavitation bubbles are strong enough to eat away at the metal itself as well. I expect this knife might not actually last very long if you use the vibration a lot.

People freak out over the dimples because it means that some day they won’t be able to sharpen the knife anymore.

Which ignores that once you are even two millimeters worn down it is probably time to get a new knife regardless due to ergonomics and the like.

And yeah. Vibrations only make sense if you are sawing through food. That is why those (cheap) electric carvers are genuinely amazing and worth grabbing if you are hosting a big roasted meat party (e.g. American and probably also Canadian Thanksgiving). Non-serrated blades don’t do that. If you need to saw through your food with a chef’s knife then you should have sharpened that years ago. And if you actually CAN saw through your food with the chef’s knife, odds are the blade is so fucked up that it is not salvageable to begin with.

I mean, the increased damage compared to a regular knife is noteworthy.

They can’t know the password if they’ve been stabbed to death

why not? just solder an on switch into it

Most of mine are just like that, but getting the TS100 is a real bonus for SMD stuff, for heavy stuff,and primarily for me can run off my Dewalt drill batteries. Being temp controlled with swappable bits with different elements means you can go from a tiny tip to a massive wedge using the full 100w very easily, and being able to do that inside a speaker can in a field without having to find an inverter or whatever is well worth the price of admission

That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.

I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.

Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.