Tools are sometimes designed to be highly specialized to do exactly one job, and they do it exceptionally well. Seriously, these are the tools people talk about when they say robots are coming to take your position. They have been designed with exactly one thing in mind: to do a job and to do it well– and I think they are pretty darn incredible. There’s something so satisfying about seeing a machine work exactly the way it is supposed to.
1Hole saw for digging skyscraper foundation
2A tool for researchers to quickly shuffle between different books
3A washing machine for garbage cans
4Cell phone hotspot in Australia. Set your phone on the post, dish focuses the signal to the nearest tower. 100% passive, the tool itself uses no power
5Laser docking bay guides
6Squeezer for a single slice of lemon
7Found at 99 stores, a Hotwheels mount for your GoPro
8This 70s Tupperware patent lid holder at my grandma's house
9Men stand with the giant chain links that were forged for the Titanic's Hingley anchor, 1910. At the time, the Titanic had the largest anchor in the entire world. At Hingley and sons
10This sign turns on when you can no longer see over the snowbanks
11Smoke detector tester. On a stick
12Hexagonal paper for drawing organic compounds
13Specially designed screwdriver for removing the calendar nut on a Rolex
14Specialized rulers for fashion pattern drafting
15A tool so specialized, nobody knows what it is anymore
16At my job we use this triple-bladed knife to score our hamburger buns
17A keyboard designed for one-handed people
18Lego brick separator - 630
19Every year after Glastonbury festival this tractor with a magnet attached to it picks up thousands of tent pegs so that grazing cows don't choke
20Coal stacker reclaimer
21Several years ago my uncle made this special hat so he could see and feed hummingbirds up close
22Pizza slice grabber
23Make way for the 'medium nut gatherer'
24The tool used to remove the skin to be used in skin grafts
25I really didn't want to eyeball this curve, so I printed a Radius Gauge
