Error 1: Music playing while the laptop is still on!
Picture 1 (Laptop locked and still playing): By myself
So, I discovered this when I was in the Van Houten Library I just opened the laptop for opening moodle which I had opened earlier in and browser and closed the laptop and put it in bag! Unfortunately the browser was running with Jimmy fallon show and as soon as I opened the laptop in library it started playing and it was such an embarrassment for me to disturb others reading there!
So the prevention I looked up on the internet were as follows:
Apparently the Mac has an interesting setting for this in which this problem is used as making your laptop into a music player and eventually saving the battery.
But with my Dell Inspiron Laptop I have no such setting and the prevention is to always close the browser while closing the laptop lid and always pressing the mute button when you are closing the laptop lid.
Error 2 : Manual push and pull CD ROM Drive.
Picture 2 (CD ROM Tray): By myself
I would like to discuss another defect with my laptop, it has manual push pull CD ROM Drive, yeah most of the latest laptops have got rid of it because CDROM being obsolete but in some cases like my favorite games which I have a CD of makes it neccessary to buy a laptop with CD ROM Drive.
Due to push and pull if you can see in the picture above the tray is inclined at an angle, this causes hindrance while pushing as well as pulling and also eventually damage the guide itself which may lead to access of the laptop interiors to dust, dirt and moisture which can increase the maintenance and depreciation.
Solution the above problem is most likely implemented in high end laptops wherein the push and pull is automatic and there is zero chances of the tray not aligned in perpendicular direction which solves the problem!
Error 3 : Design Defect in Laptop.
Picture 3 (Fan on laptop rear): By myself
My laptop has a cooling fan affixed on the lower side which is normally kept against table or lap or any surface so if you play games for longer the laptop starts to blow out the heat from fan and this makes a high noise because of collision of the air with the table and this sound is very irritating and even worse when the hot air blows on your lap.
Solution to is like in Mac the air hot air blows out off the hinges of the laptop and this makes very less or no noise, thus making if very comfortable to the user and other people around.
Error 4 : Soap holder with erroneously small draining holes.
Picture 4 (Soap Holder): By myself
The above picture depicts my soap holder with very small draining holes, this makes the water dripping from the soap bar to accumulate in the holder and thus makes the soap very mushy and unusable.
The problem can be solved by making the pores very large so that all the water drains out leaving the soap dry and fit for next usage.
Error 5 : Headphones with wires.
Picture 5 (JBL Wire headphones): By myself
So I had a JBL wired headphones which I bought in India, these headphones cost around $40 and they didn’t even work for a month although the sound quality is perfect with no droppings as these headphones use wires the transmit the data, but the problem was its design which had inclined edges at the jack end and the ear bud end which would constantly be in tension due to activities like sleeping and listening music and running with the headphones on etc.
The solution to this problem is addressed by leading brands like Bose, Apple & Beats which have introduced new headphones with just rigid buds which fit in the ears and the data transmission is made through Bluetooth giving these ear pods the advent of no wires and user can enjoy full range of motion while listening to the songs like run sleep workout etc without having a need to keep consciousness to not damage the wires.
Error 6 : Unbalanced study table.
Picture 6 : (Legs of study table.) by myself.
The above picture depicts the legs of a study table I ordered from amazon last month, after assembling the study table I found that one of the legs is smaller than the other and so the table is unbalanced. I tried replacing it back but that was another headache to wait for a new one and assemble it again!
The above problem’s solution was very clear to me when I saw another steel table at Shoprite which had guides an each leg to adjust the height of table, in such case even is by defect a table has one short leg it can be compensated by setting the guide to desired height.
Error 7 : Chair with no back rest setting.
Picture 7 (Chair in CKB): By myself
The above chair is one in the central king building in our campus, these chairs have springs in the back rest, that means the more your exert pressure on the back rest more they incline, but the problem is when after a certain period of usage the spring gets deformed and is no longer able to come the original position and exert a opposite force to user back giving him comfort to lay on it. this makes it very difficult for a person who wants to sit in a upright position with a little bit of back rest.
The solution to the above problem is with some chairs in which the back rest moves on it’s own through a motor actuator to the preferred alignment or in some chairs with guides and locks at different angles.
Error 8 : My crocs shoes.
Picture 8 (Crocs shoes): By myself
I’ve clicked my crocs shoes which seems a little unusual, the thing is I have wide feet which makes it difficult for me to use standard sizes of shoes, for example I have an exact fit for Euro 11 number shoes length wise but the width is always narrow and causes rashes and scars on my feet, but this experience is worst in case of crocs shoes, when I looked over the internet, crocs is made out of croslite material which is closed chain polymer with a very low flexibility thus, rubbing my feet to an extent of bleeding.
The solution what I used was to, boil the crocs in hot water so that it becomes very plastic and easy to mold and wear two/three layers of socks and force my leg into the hot plastic, this actually works, due to three socks layer the plastic is expanded more than required and actually provides compensation for the size shrinkage while cooling down. So as you can see the picture the crocs have actually expanded in the front and conformed to my feet.
Error 9 : Recess at the top of my pitcher water filter.
Picture 9 (Pitcher water filter): By myself
The picture shows a recess provided at the top of the pitcher to facilitate the pouring, but this is major cause for unclean water and dust on the top of the lid to percolate into the filtered water.
Error 10 : Water clogging in the pitcher.
Picture 10 (Pitcher water filter): By myself.
As you can see the pitcher is divided in two colors the blue part and the transparent white part below, the blue part is a reservoir to store unclean water needing filtration the filter connects between the both compartments the lower compartment is to store the filtered water, but when the filtered water rises to a certain level and goes above the end of the filtration unit due to capillary action the water from the upper reservoir stops to flow through the filter into the lower compartment and this causes the dirty water to stop in the upper compartment and when we need to retrieve the clean filtered water from the pitcher it mixes with the remanent unclean water in the upper compartment and contaminates it!
A water filter attached to tap adress both the problems in error 9 &10.
Error 11 : Non standardized electric chargers.
Figure 11: (my Indian Samsung charger) by myself
The above picture depicts my Indian charger, unfortunately this works only in Europe and India there is different charger slots for Japan, Australia and the US.
I had to buy a travel charger adapter with multiple charging heads suiting to the various countries requirements.
Error 12 : Half covered tempered glass protector.
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Figure 12: (tempered glass protector) by myself.
This is my old phone with tempered glass cover which does not cover the bezels due to this my is weared at the corners.
Solution to this problem is tempered glass which covers the bezels too and extra protection which may be phone cover so that the first impact is always bared by the cover.
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