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Monday, October 13, 2008

Finger Food

Juggling a drink, a napkin, finger food, handshakes, and forced conversation has always been a challenge. As the drinks flow and the night stumbles on, the task gets progressively more difficult. If this product works well, it may save you from making a complete ass of yourself. If it doesn't, and chances are leaning in this direction, it will make your failure all the more spectacular. As an alternative to 'FingerFood,' I would rather see someone produce a shrimp flavored Ring Pop or a genuinely possessed shrimp cocktail.

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[links: www.yankodesign.com]

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Foreskin Prosthetics

I spent some time investigating all of my possibilities on SenSlips website. R.J. from Cambridge England, the voice of experience, was most insightful when saying, "...I am 70 and have regretted being circumcised all of my life, I have found the greatest benefit of the SenSlip is psychological, it makes me feel safe and more confident." While it is perfectly understandable for a man in the eve of his life to search for comfort and confidence in this product, needing such a device is absurd for a man in the prime of his life. Advertisers pressure men into subscribing to all sort of products (cough*) designed to secure their manhood. Before committing yourself to pay over a dollar a day for another unnecessary product think of the options. Reskin your confidence by going on an underwear shopping spree. A few good pairs of boxer briefs will keep things in place and comfortable, and it is something that a women will not mind looking at. Imagine being on a romantic date, when in the heat of the moment your partner reaches for 'you' and unexpectedly rips off your prepuce! It is a moment that will be hard to recover from. This blow could be softened only by the knowledge that in a few short minutes your penis will have to be adorned with another suit of armor. In the specific case where new underwear isn't stylish enough for you, and you don't want to wear a glorified condom all day, and you just HAVE TO HAVE your old self back, don't dispair. With todays medical technology, not even Aposthia can keep you from enjoying the full use of your – well, a – fully functioning foreskin. Foreskin restoration comes in several flavors, both surgical and non-surgical. For me, the most exciting, utilizes biological 3D printing technologies to design, print, grow, and implant custom foreskins. Digital penises are almost here! For proof, just watch CBS's Cutting Edge Video (3D segment at 2:58). All other options aside SenSlip, and their competitor ManHood, are here to give us hope. They give us the hope that if a man can restore the one part of himself that physically defines him as a man, there might be a chance for restoring the parts that emotionally define him as one too. It is important to have objects that can inspire hope, comfort, and pride in their users. Without them one can lose their place in the world. While they give use some foundation, they simultaneously expose and sometime exploit our deepest insecurities.

I learned many things on my SenSlip journey. Most of the things I learned came from SenSlip's compelling and informative website containing useful diagrams, testimonials, sizing charts, and a creative use of spelling and grammar. Although SenSlip answered most of my questions, they left me wondering about one thing: how does one cure those terrible foreskin phantom pains?

* Gillette & Schick, how many blades will be enough?

[links: www.boingboing.net & www.viafin-atlas.com]

Sunday, May 4, 2008

"To Protect and Hurt"

Fear of being mugged and robbed is a general fear in American society. This fear is fueling the debate over the 2nd amendment, and is the motivation behind the following Chindogu candidates. I find that these object are more terrifying then the fear of being mugged, because they expose the open social acceptance of violence as a valid form a conflict resolution. Yonko Design's Anthony James sheds some light on the Pepper Knuckles, "...Designer Idan Arbel has come up with this brilliant idea. Once you have successfully rendered your assailant a curled up crying mess on the floor, with these “Pepper Knuckles, you can proceed to give him the beating of a lifetime. Go ahead, hit a criminal when he/she is down… it’s only fair play. While you are at it, steal his/her wallet and drop it off at the nearest police station just for laughs." It stuns me that a victim of a robbery would go as far as give his assailant "the beating of a lifetime". It would be more dramatizing to inflict severe pain and injury to someone, than it would be being robbed or injured myself. Sure, it is not fair to robbed. But, retaliating against the perpetrator does not solve the problem of crime. It doesn't even solve the problem of being mugged in the first place. And retaliation does not even address the issue of environmental justice, at best it makes things worse.

What happened to turning the other cheek, or embracing the Other? According to a study by the Graduate Center in New York, over 79% of the United States claim to be Christian (wiki). With a demographic this enormous this attitude towards violence does not make sense to me. Jesus would not have a gun rack on his bed! I am also fairly certain that He would definitely not buy "one for each side of the bed!" I propose a device that captures the robber in a large glass cup (similar to the way one captures a spider in the kitchen), then a group of peer counselors retrieve him/her, rehabilitate them, and give them a job (possibly as a counselor). Once a critical mass of rehabilitated counselors is reached, they can run for office and start NPO's to try to actually change the environment that caused them the rob in the first place. Watch the video, it is worth it.

[links: www.geekologie.com & www.the-backup.com & www.yankodesign.com]

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Chopstick Glasses

Sushi has every nook of the urban landscape. Earlier this year I was five hefty, yet satisfied, construction workers exiting a local sushi joint. This artifact exposes the social need for easily accessible readily available chopsticks. I can only imagine that number of trees I would have saved if I had a pair of these.