Stanley Acquires Black & Decker, and PM Predicts Possible Outcomes - Popular Mechanics

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1. The FuBuster

A coupling of Stanley's FuBar demolition tool and Black & Decker's iconic Dustbuster , this tool would contain a wall-wrecking sledge on one end and a cordless hand vacuum on the other. Knock it down and clean it up—beyond all recognition—in one irresistible package.

2. The AutoFat Tape Measure

Black & Decker's product designers have a knack for putting a battery where you never knew you needed one—witness the AutoWrench and the AutoClamp . Stanley's 25-foot Fat Max Xtreme tape measure, on the other hand, boasts an incredible 13 feet of "standout," industry jargon for how far the tape can extend before it crumples and falls. During a long ago dinner with PM, Stanley reps boldly demonstrated the tape's abilities by extending it over an upstairs dining table's balcony edge, inching the stiff tape ever outward for a seemingly impossible distance over oblivious diners in the main room below.

The AutoFat would merge these two abilities, creating an unstoppable super-tape that would literally go to great lengths at the push of a button. After some improvement, the technology would surely enable contractors to simply hook the tape on the edge of a roof, push ...

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