Comments on: It's not a question of where it grips it.

It's not a question of where it grips it.

secretdark — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:44:08 -0800

It could grip it by the husk. (SLYT)

By: gauche

gauche — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:47:52 -0800

I _so_ wanted this to be a video of a sparrow struggling to carry a coconut.

By: brennen

brennen — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:50:34 -0800

Genius.

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:53:32 -0800

Potentially useful, too, for those pedestrian-passing situations where the path is plenty wide and you don't want to be all DINGY-DINGY!!!!!! but you would also like the pedestrian not to suddenly lunge to the left. *remembers that silly thing about Britain* Er, to the right.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:57:22 -0800

How ironic. I was just sitting here trying to figure out how to make my horse sound like a bicycle.

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:08:39 -0800

I _so_ wanted this to be a video of a sparrow struggling to carry a coconut. What do you mean, African or European?

By: orme

orme — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:09:38 -0800

Gee, can't they make it out of cardboard instead?

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:12:36 -0800

I _so_ wanted this to be a video of a sparrow struggling to carry a coconut. Swallow. er... that's a correction, not an imperative

By: angrycat

angrycat — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:12:51 -0800

Thank God they invented this because it is completely necessary for nothing.

By: angrycat

angrycat — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:15:09 -0800

(Due deference to Gurple. I don't understand not wanting to ding-dingy, I guess. Plus, one could just put a playing card in the spokes)

By: BrashTech

BrashTech — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:21:55 -0800

Plus, one could just put a playing card in the spokes. Now I'm imagining the squires following the Knights of the Round Table going "BRRRRRRRRRRRRT bbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttt, BRRRRRRRRRRRRRT" to make them sound like motorcycles. Because apparently that's how my brain works today.

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:25:19 -0800

I don't understand not wanting to ding-dingy Sometimes, pedestrians freak out when you ring a bell. If someone's into their music, or something, and they sorta-kinda hear a bell and suddenly they're like "omigodFIGHTORFLIGHT!" they sometimes lunge exactly the wrong way. Particularly if they were already walking on the incorrect side of the path or if the path is curved. ... The coconut thing is not actually a good solution for this.

By: CheeseDigestsAll

CheeseDigestsAll — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:33:37 -0800

The other video is way more fun.

By: cmoj

cmoj — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:48:46 -0800

I've been around horses a fair amount and actually was in a play recently in which I had to as accurately as possible sound like a horse using coconuts. So maybe I've over-attuned but I'd definitely be startled thinking that there was some kind of drunken horse missing a leg or two bearing down on me.

By: kcds

kcds — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:06:00 -0800

Metafilter: some kind of drunken horse missing a leg or two bearing down on me

By: jiawen

jiawen — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:17:56 -0800

The overall effect sounds more like a train than a horse, to me. That's probably a good thing for a bike to sound like, though.

By: jamjam

jamjam — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:15:37 -0800

How ironic. I was just sitting here trying to figure out how to imagine fixie hipsters getting kicked in the head by a horse more easily. But you couldn't, so you settled for an insult by a horse's ass.

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:21:23 -0800

The other video is way more fun. posted by CheeseDigestsAll That one was posted on BoingBoing and it was pointed out ( rightly, IMO ) that you never actually hear the noise it makes, which is ostensibly the selling point.

By: CheeseDigestsAll

CheeseDigestsAll — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:10:35 -0800

FPP's can have more than one link.

By: Scientist

Scientist — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:38:02 -0800

Genius idea, hamstrung in execution due to the fact that the rhythm of the sound is all wrong. It sounds jerky and arrhythmic, sort of a "Clop. Clop-Clop. Clo-Clop Clop. Clop." when it should be a nice crisp "clip-CLOP-clip-CLOP-clip-CLOP-clip-CLOP".

By: xedrik

xedrik — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:34:49 -0800

It sounded to me like this thing was making the clop sound in doublets, while the Pythons did it in triplets.

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:45:14 -0800

FPP's can have more than one link. But then they can't put "SLYT" on it and you won't know what you're getting.

By: sneebler

sneebler — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:09:24 -0800

Sadly, I think this great idea needs more work. I'd buy one to see if it could be tweaked to actually sound like a horsey, and the second video is great. But, from the FAQ: Trotify is made of wood, so like any wooden object we wouldn't recommend leaving it out in the rain. A water resistant wood varnish might be a solution if you live in a very rainy place - but note that Trotify doesn't work well if it's dripping wet. So there may still be some bugs to work out...

By: Lexica

Lexica — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:03:13 -0800

Love the idea, if only because IME something that makes an ongoing, low-level noise works better than an intermittent sound. Think a bear bell's *jingle-jingle-jingle* vs. a sudden *BRRRING-BRRRING* as you approach a pedestrian. (This is why I don't care too much that my lock rattles a bit where I've got it locked through my rack — it helps pedestrians hear me coming; they seem to adjust more smoothly when I ding my bell if they've heard me coming first, even subconsciously.) Don't love the execution.