Delightfully frustrating household items

I love that bowl. it is deliciously evil.

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I recognize that teapot!

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Great book!

I maintain that the designers of the Toyota Prius user interface read that book, and then implemented the opposite of every single design principle in it… great car, atrocious cockpit and controls.

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These look like renderings of digital models, not actual created objects, anyone know?

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Check her Facebook page. She really made them.

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Some of these are nowhere near new–I remember seeing the fork and spoon a few years ago. And yeah, I think most of them are 3D models.

wouldn’t throttling the wifi in the bathroom have the same effect? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I don do no steenkeeng facebook!

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A lace shower curtain (think a bunch of doilies taped together in a grid.)

A telephone handset with the speaker and the microphone next to one another (effectively no distance between them.)

A horseshoe shaped pencil, where the eraser end touches the writing end.

A floor lamp whose post and (opaque) shade reaches to within an inch of the ceiling.

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Pretty sure that middle one is just an elaborate dabbing rig.

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You, sir, have won the internet for the day!

Bowl of poorly drained pasta would be my thought.

The lace shower curtain exists, but is recommended for use with a curtain liner.

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There is no wine glass that I could not make work. Keep trying!

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Having had the original 2002 Prius for several years, I proffer a hearty “BAH!” Although geeky and unconventional, that car had a highly usable layout. The speedometer was so visible and precise you could read it from the back seat, and possibly the next car back. My current Ford’s is a small, round tachometer-like thing, destined to cause losing arguments with patrol officers. The Prius graphical display was positioned so that it was well within the driver’s, as well as the front passenger’s field of view while driving. In my 2016 Ford it sticks out so much that I have to take my eyes off the view ahead to see it.
I will grant that the shift lever and the wiper control took some months to get the hang of. Of the many cars I’ve driven (the oldest from '66), it still seemed better than the others in most respects.

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this was back in the 80s. So no wifi

This ermine ashtray I made for my then-girlfriend:

She dropped a keeper, I tell ya.

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This art installation answered the age old question of what it would look like if you crossed a dating website with an ikea catalog.