That 4Q2 fork seems particularly cromulent. I’d pay ca$h money for it.
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Reminds me of the Catalog of Fantastic Things (originally Catalogue d’objets introuvables).
Forks:
Cat carrier:
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That spoon looks like it’s perfect for gagging someone.
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Thank you! I saw that exactly once and it just cracked me up. Always wanted to see it again.
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I find it interesting that the speedometer in my Kia can’t be seen from the passenger seat. Somebody in design had JUST ABOUT ENOUGH from his usual passenger?
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You may laugh at the open-toed wellies today, but mark my words, the time will come when they feature in a fashion show.
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They make Berry Bowls with draining bottoms so I like this idea, the berry bowls have too many holes, this could be placed on the sink edge to direct the flow.
The chopsticks probably are shaped like right angles, though.
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or all twisty, or made of flexible rubber 
I have a 2002 Prius as well, and it’s all-around great. But I’ve ridden in some of the newer models, and… ugh. Everything got super bulky, weirdly-placed and generally uncomfortable. Driving one feels like piloting a tank in comparison.
We are pretty much already there with the new Uggs / Teva sheepskin sandal boots…
http://mashable.com/2016/09/16/ugg-teva-hybrid-ugly-shoes.amp
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It was probably the pile of skinless dead weasel carcasses on the back porch that scared her off,…
Now you’d made an ermine Barbie dress / spare toilet roll cover, well that would have been a much different outcome. That would be pure class… 
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That Oreo looks the opposite of frustrating.
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Came here to say that, thanks 
Exactly. Jacques Carelman’s catalog, which I fell in love with back in the 70s, is the clear precursor and inspiration.
http://impossibleobjects.com/
I forget exactly where it was, so I’m going to choose at random and say it was Gloucester cathedral, where the pews that the monks used to sit had folding seats. The idea was that the monks weren’t allowed to sit on the seat, but instead on a small ledge on the bottom, with the seat folded up. That way, if they relaxed too much during morning prayers, they would fall off, and the seat would come down with a crash.
(Apparently called a “misericord”, although no one seems to mention the story I was told.)
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Here it is. Still haven’t had a chance to cut it off. But it gives me an excuse not to mow the lawn for now.
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I drove a 2002 Prius for 10 years and over 150K. I eventually totalled it by hitting a deer at 65 mph at the I95/I295 merge. Great car, probably my favorite Prius.
I currently have a 2012 plug-in Prius as my daily driver. I’ve driven intervening models when my employers have insisted on flying me to distant places where I had to rent a car.
The 2002 had mildly heinous UX. It had an unusual shift lever and a couple of controls that were hidden from view by the steering wheel, for example, and some lame screens. I did not buy the navigation system or CD player so I don’t know how awful (or not) they were. But it wasn’t ridiculously horrible considering it was USA version one.
Every revision afterwards got worse. Every single one.
Starting on the list from my current Prius - for one thing it, has the absolute worst nav system I’ve ever used, bar none. It’s dangerously bad.
And now there are several controls I can’t see, including the charge timing controls and passenger side heater control (that last hidden under the ludicrous Reverse Polish Shift Knob on the “flying bridge”).
The infotainment system is a hot mess of bad touchscreen controls and a bank of dashboard buttons set up for minimal tactile feedback, so the only part of it you can use effectively without taking your eyes off traffic is the volume knob - and you can do that from the steering wheel controls anyway!
The dash is stiffly textured so it literally grinds material off things that happen to get rubbed against it like a cheese grater. I could rough-finish drywall with that dash.
It has a low quality backup camera that isn’t centered on the back of the car so that the view is subtly distorted. And since the kammback design is seemingly optimized for worst possible rear view, a good backup camera sure would be nice. The 2012’s stock camera doesn’t have any graphical backup assist lines onscreen at all, either.
In fact, although the 2012 still has some of the same screens as the original 2002 (such as the lame cartoon car screen) those are actually the best of the current UX. The cartoon car screen does misrepresent the actual drive system of the car (there’s more than one electric motor, you know) but at least there aren’t screen decorations that appear to be controls that aren’t, which will pass a touch through to the invisible thing under it, which probably is a control point, so as geocities-primitive as it is, it’s still a better design than the nav system.
The cupholder is constructed so that a very deep crevice is right next to it, placed so you can easily see any gunk or gumiddgy that escapes your cup, but you’ll need six-inch Q-tips to clean it out. The crevice has no function, other than trapping spills - it’s a consequence of the previously mentioned “flying bridge” center console.
The window visors are very short - so short as to be mostly useless at actually blocking sunlight. On any other brand of car, of course, there will be little slide-out wings that solve this problem - not on the Prius! You have to purchase aftermarket visor extenders.
I could go on for some time. It’s pretty telling that the only people disagreeing about the lameness of the Prius cockpit are the people with 14 year old Priuses - because even though that was not a good user interface in any exceptional way, at least it was the best one a Prius ever had. By far. They just keep getting worse every year!
Edit: kept typing 2010 instead of 2012 for some reason. 
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