The other day, I was working with instant noodles, specifically, taking photos of noodle blocks and sachets, and packaging. Well, watch the video and I’ll continue…
So yeah. The idea for this came when I thought why not try using the old Microsoft Surface 3 tablet that’s on my desk that’s screwed up to try doing the same thing. It worked pretty well, but wasn’t big enough insofar as surface area. Well, I had already visited a company that worked in Plexiglas to do the marquee for The Ramen Rater arcade machine (oh, I haven’t told you about that? I will soon I promise) and I thought hey – I wonder how much it would cost for a slab of Plexiglas that was both the right size and had some weight to it. Then I thought I’d need a way to pick it up. I got a suction cup handle that’s made to assist people getting in and out of the shower – something people guessed this thing had to do with. But no. This is for flattening instant noodle packaging.
You see, when I do a review of a variety of instant noodles, I have to do some photoshopping on the scans. Packaging poses some difficulties that paper does not. Chiefly, it’s thin and plastic and wrinkles easily. These wrinkled reflect on the scanner itself which causes glare. These spots must be dealt with or the image looks like garbage and sometimes take a long time to edit. This thing doesn’t solve the problem 100%, but after using it a couple times I can safely say it saves me half or even more time off of what I spending doing this. Time is all we have and saying it’s money is pretty humorous, so this tool will probably save me 24 hours of time over the course of a year. I’m not going to say that’s a mathematically arrived at amount, but with the sheer amount of reviews I do on a regular basis, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
So yeah – the RPFD – the Ramen Packaging Flattening Device. That’s what it is, and what it does.
