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Baffle Box Video
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Baffle Box Video (Art Grater)
Date: Thursday, 15 March 2012, at 3:10 a.m.
I started with the idea that I wanted a really great baffle box that would ensure a fair roll, even if someone was a cheater and tried to set the dice. I developed that, and sold 20, but the major criticism was that they are bulky and who wants to travel with them. I, myself, didn't like carrying it to the corner bistro for our chouette. So I starting talking to my son, (masters in design and brilliant and now head of User Experience at Sears/KMart) and he said the answer is collapsible, and he suggested that pegs or magnets are the answer.
I was against magnets, because people have a little aversion to magnets and dice, and also I knew they could be cause some possible damage to electrical devices and small children, but the first prototypes we made with pegs and slots and hinges were simply too ugly and bluky. So I settled for magnets, and they are absolutely perfect. I took the first model to the geeks at Best Buy and the pros at Micro Center and asked if the magnets created a serious threat to computers, cell phones, and electronic equipment, and they said they would not certify anything, but they highly doubted it. Anyway, we put a warning on the instructions. I tried to pry magnets loose to see if kids could get at them, and I see no way of that happening.
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