QUICK NOTE: I wrote the bulk of this post almost a year ago, but it got lost in the shuffle and I didn't finish it until just now. I realize the news item in question is long gone, but the points still stand. Recently, American Eagle made some headlines by announcing that their lingerie line, Aerie,... Continue Reading →
KICKSTARTER, MEET SCIENCE.
UPDATE: I came back in this morning and elaborated. I was being pretty lazy with explaining the math when I wrote this, but I've expanded it a bit. This is where I find a thing on Kickstarter that someone is raising money for, then I point out that it won't work, then hundreds and thousands... Continue Reading →
IT’S A PUDDLE. THAT YOU PAY FOR.
Two artists in Holland would like to sell you this. Now I know you're thinking that that looks like a tiny plastic pill-shaped case with a poorly-contained chunk of ice slowly melting inside, and you're probably also thinking that because it costs $33, it can't possibly be that. It is that. It's an ice cube... Continue Reading →
A STUPID ACCESSORY FOR AN OBSOLETE PRODUCT
It's the year 2011, and you know what's really starting to take off in the world of music? CDs. Yes, CDs, the newest and shiniest addition to the music consumption market, are capable of holding up to 20 songs at once. Now granted, you can't erase the songs, or add new ones, or change the... Continue Reading →
FIVE GREEN GADGETS FOR GUYS (YOU DON’T LIKE)
Look, I'm sorry I use Inhabitat so much. But they're idiots. It's a great source of material. That said, here's their list of "Top 5 Green Gadgets For Guys." 1. The Citizen Ecodrive Watch Technically this is hundreds of watches, because all of Citizen's watches are solar powered, or "fueled by light" in the douchey... Continue Reading →
SIX MORE CATASTROPHICALLY USELESS CONCEPT CARS
I have written about concept cars twice before. First up was GM, whose car concepts sucked in a kind of general way, but weren't really inherently impossible. Then there was the list of concept cars on Walyou, which were picked solely (as far as I can tell) because the person who wrote the article is eleven... Continue Reading →
A COLORFUL HOME ACCESSORY (WAITING TO KILL YOU)
Dominic Wilcox is a designer. "Designer" is a dangerous term, because it usually means some crazy person with ridiculous ideas who then makes CAD drawings or actual mock-ups of his crazy ideas and yet, for some goddamn reason, I appear to be the only person to notice that said idea is crazy. Wilcox actually has... Continue Reading →
MORE USELESS ACCESSORIES FOR USELESS CREATURES
I have written about tiny dogs and dog products before. Here's an example, and another one, and what the hell another one too. I am of the very firm opinion that tiny lap dogs are a race of creature that should not exist (and would not, if not for human selective breeding) because they are... Continue Reading →
