COULD THIS BE THE WORLD’S FIRST NUCLEAR-POWERED AIRLINER? (NO.)
On January 5, 2011, I wrote the following: “Designer” is a dangerous term, because it usually means some crazy person with ridiculous ideas who then makes CAD drawings or actual…
Tag: design concept
4 REASONS SOLAR ROADWAYS ARE FUCKING STUPID
The idea of solar roadways has been around for a while, and I haven’t said anything about it because I thought it was self-evident how stupid it was. I was…
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…
THE TRANSPARENT TOASTER
A little over 18 months ago, this baffling object popped up on Memebase, well known for contributing nothing of value to the Internet ever. The caption that they gave for…
HERE IS A STUPID IDEA THAT IS STUPID
Hey there! You know how, each morning, you have a cup of hot coffee and then mess around on your phone, reading Facebook updates or whatever? And you know how,…
ELECTROLUX’S TEN DESIGN LAB FINALISTS (ARE ALL FUCKING STUPID): PART TWO
Last week, we talked about the first five finalists (I don’t think they’re ranked in any way) of the Electrolux Design Lab Competition. All of them, as you may recall,…
ELECTROLUX’S TEN DESIGN LAB FINALISTS (ARE ALL FUCKING STUPID): PART ONE
Think back to what you were doing on Wednesday, September first, 2010… Don’t remember? It’s ok, I do. You were eagerly reading through that morning’s blog post from your favorite…
NENDO’S CUTE PLANT-SHAPED AIRLEAF MINI WON’T DO A GODDAMN THING
Every once in a while, I think about how many of my posts come from Inhabitat. Sometimes I feel like this blog is just becoming a response blog to everything…
SHWEEB: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (THAT WON’T WORK) OF THE FUTURE
If you’re like me, you’ve always hated that our transportation systems like bikes and buses and cars all operate on an existing infrastructure, rather than one that would require a…
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…
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…
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…
NINE CONCEPT CARS YOU (WRONGLY) THINK ARE COOL
Here’s the thing about concept cars. They’re specifically designed to be way crazier than the end result. They’re about showing off design ideas and engineering feats, and since they’re not…
