Watch out for Professor Moriarty.

It's a slow day. Everything I've seen looks useful, tasteful, and generally well thought-out. Crazy, right?

Must be some sort of post-April Fools lull.

In a pinch, however, you can always turn to Japan...

It's a keyboard duster. In the shape of a gun. With a little pink brush.

How quaint.

Who the hell dusts their keyboard, anyway? Aren't they self-dusting? Isn't that sort of like cleaning out a tea kettle or washing an umbrella? Maybe the Japanese are just more anal about their cleanliness of their electronics.

I hear they have holodecks over there, now.

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Think Kanye will hawk these ones, too?

Kudos to Sacha for finding this one. I wish it was an April Fool's joke, oh god do I wish...

In the latest, outrageous example of hipster "avant-garde eyewear", a Baltimore-based start up introduces what are essentially wooden blindfolds with coinslots that they call "Slanties". Slanties?! C'mon guys, that's not even subtle - that's just outright racist. What's next, Kike Noses? Nigga Wigs? Towelhead ... um... towels?

They claim the design is based off of "ancient Inuit eyewear".

that's going to be one hilarious tan line

The inuits also built houses out of ice. Just saying.

If you plan to sacrifice function for form, then the design had better look damn good. Derogatory wooden coinslot facemasks? Not so much.

Anyway, I guess they might be valuable to middle school health teachers to use during their anti-smoking lessons. "This is what it's like when you have cataracts. Not fun, is it?"

No. No it isn't, Mrs. K. Not fun at all. And I look like a total douche.

Did I mention they were 75 fucking dollars?

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If you squint, it looks sort of like Homer Simpson.

Danish designer Ole Jensen may have surpassed Jason Miller in the race to design the world's ugliest chair.


It's like a giant brain with erect, nubby nipple arms.

Jensen claims it was not designed with style or function in mind (we could tell), but memory: "we all have special objects that refresh memories – things that have a meaning and create the pleasure of recognition".

Uh huh. Okay. So what does that have to do with this hideous, nipplebrain chair?


Reminds me of a very bad dream I once had ... I won't go into details.

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Quick! Somebody shoot it!

Oh for the love of god ... it's a fucking baby snuggie.

No. Just no. Babies are creepy enough as it is.

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Legend of Zelda, a cuffLink to the past.

There are gamers and there is formal wear and never the twain shall meet.

...or shall they?

Is there really a market for this junk? The tawdry tie market can survive on science teachers alone, but when was the last time you saw a science teacher wearing a tuxedo? The only people who wear cufflinks are grooms, politicians, royalty and James Bond. Do you think any of them would wear a wii-mote on their cuff?

If I wasn't at work, there would be a picture of James Bond wearing a guitar hero cufflink. Just pretend it's here and laugh accordingly.

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Some countries just don't get it.

Bad Russia! Bad!

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