I greatly admire the guys at remarkable.co.uk – they started off doing some earnest work with pencils and branched out neatly into complimentary office products. In fact I like them so much I bought one of their mouse mats made out of recycled car tyres.The product arrived on time and I was delighted with the look and feel of it – and quite frankly over the moon with its strong rubbery smell. This product had clearly lived a life already and here was me giving it a second bought. So everything was looking pretty good until I’d been using it for two hours. Then I realised just how hard I was having to work to navigate the mouse over the pad. In no time at all my arm was well achy.
So my thoughts returned to high school physics and my rudimentary understanding of how cars stay on the road. Yes – surely there was something about rubber tyres and friction. Tyres generate a lot of that – so good for cornering at speed, terrible for something that wants to glide effortlessly like er?! like a mouse on a mouse matt.
Now if you glance over the atlantic they know how to recycle tyres (and not any tyres – oh no – former extras from days of thunder). Earthfriendlygoods.com might be a bit of a mouthful but they’ve go it sussed. Take one tyre, turn into coffee table appropriate for petrolheads bachelorpad price it up at $185 and, guess what, not a hint of bad friction.
