Simplicity

Six simple machines for transforming energy into work.

If complexity is inevitable, is there any value in designing for simplicity? Certainly, we seem drawn to things that can do more in a single package; the modern smart phone combines a phone, camera, video recorder, audio recorder, flashlight, pedometer, computer, GPS receiver, and a half million other functions it seems. It’s compact, easily transportable, and readily available.

It does not, however, come with a knife blade. Well, not yet, anyways.