Dumb Product Concepts

Well, except for those of us that commute on motorcycles and carry our stuff in courier bags. My bananas regularly get bruised -- guess I should try to find me a bananaguard!

The thing got passed along from friend-to-friend until it found a home with someone who thought it was entirely dumb enough to actually use.

Well, except for those of us that commute on motorcycles and carry our stuff in courier bags. My bananas regularly get bruised -- guess I should try to find me a bananaguard!

I reckon one might be asked to explain oneself after pulling out a "banana guard" at work if one's boss didn't know what they were.

I agree with Turbo and so do top-tier chefs. About twelve years ago, Tsu and I attended a brunch at a high-end hotel, in Portland. The scrambled eggs were so good that I made a point to hunt down a chef and ask how they were made. Based on what he said, I needed to add about three times as much milk as my mother had taught me. Sure enough, that was the trick.

Part of my objection to a product like this is the waste. It is convenience taken to the point of aburdity. I actually find products like this to be offensive.

It takes energy to manufacture and distribute any product. In a year, when you throw it away, it will go to a landfill and probably last for decades, if not much longer. Any convenience found here is trivial. Products like this are plague on our energy-hungry, oil-powered society.

1 - It strikes me as novel. Quirky, sure, but not harmful. It's not like it's claiming to cure cancer.
2 - It's electrically powered, electricity you can get from numerous non-polluting sources.

It's made from plastic, which comes from oil. When it goes into landfill, it's pollution = harmful.

Nobodies talking about the electric for its use - although it does increase demand on the power plants. Remember, the limited eco-supplies and as such only do so much. Everything else comes from the power plants. There's not enough green supply now to cover what we use which means anything else, such as this product, increase demand on the power stations not the green sources.

Make it out another material.

I'm just surprised how much dislike this little gadget acquired. It's something that I'd give as a present to one of my geeky friends.

Try it. You'll never go back. If you want to make a really fluffy base for an omelet, you need to use a liquid lighter than egg, and entrain the air.

Another dumb food product. It's too late to buy your valentine one of these, but I only found out about them today.

http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/index.a...469&PageID=424

£1.00 ($1.60) for a mis-shapen piece of something that is 98% water anyway does not seem like value for money.

I like them. I'd buy heart shaped cucumbers. That's close to the price for winter cucumbers here.

Beware of inferior overseas imitations.