• Fitting Boeing 707 as a passenger carrier (removing discomfort)
• portables
• protection (avoiding but possibly dangerous)
o motorcycle helmets
o ear protectors
• Philips Shaver
• Pencils
Some magazines (I’m thinking of Eye Magazine) have both a wonderful texture due to the quality of the paper stock combined with a fantastic smell as you open it’s pages. Leather goods have a similar effect – more for some than others.
A refined and well engineered tool such as a Wüsthof cooks knife has a pleasing heft and balance that is noted immediately upon using the tool. It also conveys a pleasure to the user of being highly effective — making light work of the often mundane tasks for which it is employed.
When we close a car door and it makes a satisfying clunk we experience a certain pleasure. This is a combination of the acoustic feedback that the door is definitely closed, combined with an aesthetic enjoyment of the sound itself. The sound will have been engineered to produce this response.