Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Electric paper plane launcher

By: My New Obsession — Unitaskers « The Non-Consumer Advocate

My New Obsession — Unitaskers « The Non-Consumer Advocate — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:26:22 +0000

[...] The electric paper plane launcher [...]

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:03:59 +0000

I was going through some of the thrift shops and saw something that would make it into your unitasker ideas.
It only seem to make ice cream cones. It is by black and decker, from the past, something like artic blast or something. It was like what you get at ice cream places that make ice cream cones. I don’t know if you could try making snow cones, if it would hold together on that.
It reminded me of these kind of ideas. Good articles.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:31:47 +0000

Seeing this gave me a reason to pull out my old Lego Technic Boxes. I built a Paper plane Launcher out of Lego Technic (including two lego motors and the lego train’s trafo).

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:37:37 +0000

I bought this for my nephew this year for xmas…I have not heard the results yet, but if the reviews are good, I will have to get one for work:) I think we can use it in the atrium for some real fun.

By: PJ Normz

PJ Normz — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:39:16 +0000

Oh they would love this at the Meadowlands (home of the NY Jets & Giants). All the fans do in the upper deck is throw planes. Some of them have terrible accuracy and could use a tool like this!

By: Another Deb

Another Deb — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:07:14 +0000

I could have used this with hunderds of students over the past 10 years if I had known they existed. One of the hardest things to control on their paper airplane experiments was the launch angle and force. This would have served me well, but I went ahead and made the kids figure it out for themselves. Possibly the best route at that!

By: kate

kate — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:14:00 +0000

My son who’s now 7 got one of these last year when he was big into paper planes, it’s fantastic! I love your site but you got this one wrong, it’s a toy not a unitasker!!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:03:11 +0000

How long before we see a Williams-Sonoma version of this that puts bay leaves in your soup for only $1995?

By: momofthree

momofthree — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:20:06 +0000

Gees, all I need is a job (trying to reenter the work force after being a SAH mom for 18 yrs) with a desk, and with ALL top of desk unitasker items, I wouldn’t have any room left upon which to work!!

I just love this site and all the tips I have gleaned from the articles and those who post comments.

Happy Holidays one and all and may we all unclutter our lives for the better in ‘09!!

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:49:07 +0000

The best part is that a desk or table is really eye-level for a small child witnessing the 30 mph launch of a pointy tipped projectile. A good way to ensure your youngest’s new playground nickname is “Cyclops”.

By: Bonnie Blackburn

Bonnie Blackburn — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:56:18 +0000

Justthe thing when my manager comes in to give me yet another task…

By: Bobk

Bobk — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:43:22 +0000

I LIKE!!! Just the thing for the cube farm.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:38:29 +0000

Matt, this is awesome. Great find.

By: Luis Fernando

Luis Fernando — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:21:02 +0000

Do I care if it’s a unitasker or not? NO, I DO NOT. I want one now, tonight.

By: Carl Cravens

Carl Cravens — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:53:59 +0000

You realize this is a science kit… the purpose isn’t launching paper airplanes, it’s teaching.

So it’s not a unitasker… it launches paper airplanes *AND* can be used to teach about mechanical laws and conversion of electrical energy to mechanical.

You could spend all year filling Unitasker Wednesday if you walk down the science kit aisle, calling educational kits “ridiculous unitaskers”. By their nature, science kits are very simple and generally useless as functional items.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:48:10 +0000

If only this was powered by USB…

By: Krisha K

Krisha K — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:38:10 +0000

hand power was never enough for MY paper planes!