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1 HN user recommended this in 2010, in one comment.
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Seen Gopher Pick Retrieving Tool
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
Some people in my lab worked on laundry manipulation, and it's surprisingly hard. My personal guess is that it's the lack of touch sensors. You can fold socks with your eyes closed pretty quickly, but if you had to do it with visual clues alone (e.g. by using a pair of those Gopher tools http://www.amazon.com/Seen-Gopher-Pick-Retrieving-Tool/dp/B0... ) it would take you significantly longer.