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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Microsoft Surface (movie)
Chindogus are not always born in the basement of a blue-collar worker who wants to make life better for himself and his family. They are frequently given birth to by some of the largest corporations in the world. Microsoft Surface is the Penthouse of gadget porn; high resolution, airbrushed, and high priced. In the best of worlds the table, often combined with the preparation and consumption of food, is a gathering place. It is a place of salvation, salvation from the business of life. This is especially true of the dinner table, which the Microsoft Surface is clearly not trying to replace. But, even the bar table is a place to get away technology itself and spend time interacting with people face to face (talking about technology). This video sarcastically points out that using a digital display surface as a table is going to detract from the simple interaction of two individuals. This exposes two important questions for me. The first, how do you encourage honest, direct, quality human to human interaction through a table display? The second, how do you prevent feature creep in a totally digital interface? The companies that find good solutions to both of these questions will be the ones to succeed.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Molecular Chindogu: Bisphenol A
There have been many (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,) articles published in the past 48 hours about Canada declaring Bisphenol A a toxin. Thereby banning the use of polycarbonate in all food and beverage containers (e.g. Nalgene bottles, most baby bottles and some canned formula linings). According to Wikipedia, "...(Bisphonal A) is a difunctional building block to several important polymers and polymer additives. Bisphenol A has become controversial because it mimics estrogen and thus could induce hormonal responses." It comes to mind that Bisphenol A is a solution that is causing more problems than it is solving (on medical, fiscal, and social planes). Therefore, I am submitting it to the Unuseless chopping block.
Diet Sunglasses
"...blue calms the brain's appetite center, and they also make the food look disgusting."
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Foodogu
These next three are brought to you by Dr. John Marshall (University of Michigan School of Art & Design Professor) via treehugger.
The Handpresso
A portable espresso machine, powered by a hand pump. My fear with owning one of these is, when leaving for a bike ride, that I would confuse it with my pump. When I get a flat I won't be able to get back home. But at least I could enjoy some good coffe while I wait for someone to pick me up.
Personally I think this item can be a little bit too not unuseless to be chindogu. Just check out these youtube videos.
The Exhaustburger
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