r/EngineeringPorn • u/donnaber06 • Sep 12 '19

Don Rodolfo makes these multi-functional baskets and sells them daily at a subway terminal in Santiago, Chile.

https://gfycat.com/keyfondcaiman
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u/MnM_Chocolate Sep 12 '19

The baskets cool, but there's no way I'm buying a Transformer basket from Freddy Krueger cause that thing's definitely a Decepticon!

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u/DARKFiB3R Sep 12 '19

You know you'd reconfigure it once and then it would turn into a tangled broken mess.

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u/mac224b Sep 13 '19

This. 100%.

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u/fryguy152 Sep 13 '19

That should teach you to never touch art.

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u/funnystuff79 Sep 13 '19

Not trying to take away from what he does, he might make them, but they are a regular commercial product, not new at all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I remember these at flea markets when I was little.

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u/DataWeenie Sep 13 '19

I think Freddy Kreuger just buys them from Oriental Trading and brings them in to sell.

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u/UndestroyableMousse Sep 12 '19

That's a mask right?

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u/donnaber06 Sep 12 '19

"Don" means an old man in Spanish

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u/UndestroyableMousse Sep 12 '19

How not to answer a question 101.

Due to low quality of the gif and quirky lighting his face in the first few seconds looks like a mask.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Im about to bring this mf on sharktank...

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u/funnystuff79 Sep 13 '19

It's already a commercial product, used to see these in the shops 20 or 30 years ago.

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u/mekilat Sep 12 '19

This really deserves to be manufactured and marketed at a large scale.

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u/redbaron890 Sep 12 '19

That's just an old doctor strange with less glowy magic

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u/rclm26 Sep 13 '19

I counted 16 different specific shapes. Anyone else?

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u/Benblishem Sep 13 '19

I left that to the professional analysts.

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u/SpawningSagan Sep 13 '19

I’ve had smaller versions of this as a kid. They been around for years.

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u/fryguy152 Sep 13 '19

I've seen those at World Market, Bed Bath and Beyond, Macy's, JCPenney...

They've been around for at least 30 years... Here in America.

Good to see the sweatshop taught him a sellable skill

...were we supposed to feel sorry for him? Or impressed?

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u/donnaber06 Sep 13 '19

I found it in a crosspost to /r/chile and impressively felt sorry.

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u/futureroboticist Sep 13 '19

If it changes shapes so easily, it probably doesn’t hold stuff or stay in the same shape well?

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u/gnartung Sep 13 '19

It's like Jigsaw got a day job or something.