Form Follows Function: These Swissies, a Fitness Invention

As with the EDC market, the fitness market is awash in gizmos with curious forms. Like these things: Those are called Swissies, and if they were to survive for centuries, future archaeologists would have fun trying to figure out what they were used for. Perhaps they could guess by inspecting them. The surface has been modified in two areas, one with knurling, the other with rubber strips. They hew to form-follows-function, though the function might not be obvious to...