You may have noticed the small counter at the bottom of each page on budtrap.com. It tallies the total amount of time saved through the use of BudTrap - time that would otherwise have been spent untangling headphone cables (you can find out more about how we calculate this figure at the end of the article). Recently, we hit another milestone - 2,500 hours saved!
This got us thinking, what could be done with this time our customers have back in their day?
1. Building houses.
The world record for 'speed building' a house was set in 2003 by the fabulous Habitat For Humanity. They built a house for Bonnie Lilly in just under 3.5 hours (granted, it was pre-fabricated). Amazing. Check it out:
If we assume 100 people worked on the house (which looks about right), and put in the full amount of time each, then we could have built more than 7 of these homes (for people who really need it) with the 2,500 hours up our tangle-free sleeves.
2. Andar en bicicleta (on your bike)
Alberto Contador finished last year's (2009) Tour de France in just under 86 hours. Cycling mad BudTrappers could have completed the entire race 29 times if they could keep up with the flying Spaniard!
3. Fly me to the moon...
This got us thinking, what could be done with this time our customers have back in their day?
1. Building houses.
The world record for 'speed building' a house was set in 2003 by the fabulous Habitat For Humanity. They built a house for Bonnie Lilly in just under 3.5 hours (granted, it was pre-fabricated). Amazing. Check it out:
If we assume 100 people worked on the house (which looks about right), and put in the full amount of time each, then we could have built more than 7 of these homes (for people who really need it) with the 2,500 hours up our tangle-free sleeves.
2. Andar en bicicleta (on your bike)
Alberto Contador finished last year's (2009) Tour de France in just under 86 hours. Cycling mad BudTrappers could have completed the entire race 29 times if they could keep up with the flying Spaniard!
3. Fly me to the moon...
It took the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission (the first to land on the moon) 3 days and 4 hours to get there. If we assume equal time to get there and back (and I'm no rocket scientist), we get around 6.5 days. I'm not sure how zero gravity affects the tangling of headphone cables (we do believe there to be a universal constant of annoyance), however we could have journeyed to the moon 16 times with our 2,500 hours and still have had some change left over.
Can you think of some more?
Let us know your thoughts on how you would use the 2,500 hours saved through BudTrap. Would you throw it into work or study, your favourite hobby or cause, or would you just use it to spend more time with your friends and loved ones? Either way, it really is extraordinary how much can be done when you save a little time from your day by eliminating an annoying time-waster like tangles. For the record, 2,500 hours is approximately 104 consecutive days - so you have quite a bit of time to work with!
How we calculate the total
Every time someone orders a BudTrap, we add that person to our ongoing tally of saved time. Each day from the day that order was placed, we add a very small amount of time for each BudTrap ordered to the total, representative of the amount of time, on average, a person spends untangling their headphone cables. We calculate the amount conservatively and have spent a mind-boggling amount of time studying tangles and testing BudTraps - so, we figure if anyone knows, it's us! It's all part of the science of BudTrapology. Beep.
Can you think of some more?
Let us know your thoughts on how you would use the 2,500 hours saved through BudTrap. Would you throw it into work or study, your favourite hobby or cause, or would you just use it to spend more time with your friends and loved ones? Either way, it really is extraordinary how much can be done when you save a little time from your day by eliminating an annoying time-waster like tangles. For the record, 2,500 hours is approximately 104 consecutive days - so you have quite a bit of time to work with!
How we calculate the total
Every time someone orders a BudTrap, we add that person to our ongoing tally of saved time. Each day from the day that order was placed, we add a very small amount of time for each BudTrap ordered to the total, representative of the amount of time, on average, a person spends untangling their headphone cables. We calculate the amount conservatively and have spent a mind-boggling amount of time studying tangles and testing BudTraps - so, we figure if anyone knows, it's us! It's all part of the science of BudTrapology. Beep.
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