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The perfect present for someone that has everything? – Golden Mean Calipers
(sticK - 3 July 2012 ) Occasionally you come across a product so cool, so seemingly useful and unuseful at the same time……well here’s such a product, Golden Mean Calipers.
They, or at least the for sale on the internet version, are the brainchild of Nick Taylor.
In the two years he’s been making them, the former Wanganui, now Wellington resident has sold about $45,000 worth of the three sized, three-priced calipers. The innocuously perfect piece of hinged metal now provides the coder and MakerSpace co-founder, half an income.
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