What's wrong with batteries?

What do you get when you combine the utterly mystifying Japanese sense of humor with the frivolity of USB gadgets?

This piece of crap (no pun intended).

It's sort of like a dancing Santa; only it somehow manages to be even more taste/useless. USB ports are meant for printers, mice, keyboards and data storage devices. Why anybody would occupy one of these precious slots with some worthless tchochke, I will never understand.

via crunchgear

The ears look ironically uncomfortable. In your ears.

Apparently, eggs aren't the end of Disney's most recent, absurd branding streak. Now they're making their own bedazzled, in-ear headphones!

Something about toddlers with iPods just weirds me out. And why do they need in-ear headphones? Are they jogging in the park? I mean, we're not suggesting that adults will buy these, are we?

Please tell me adults won't be buying these.

*kudos to Donald for the clip

via itechnews from rayout

Ugly muppet chair.

Been searching for a 70s-style chair haphazardly covered in fake buffalo fur? Brooklyn-based Jason Miller designs furniture that purposely appears dirty, damaged or ugly. I'm not kidding - that's his schtick. In this case, he has definitely succeeded:

I'm not saying that's a good thing. God damn.

Maybe if it didn't have those creepy eyes in the middle...

via designboom

Remember when Christopher Walken wasn't just a running joke?

This belt buckle makes me angry.
This thing is a trifecta. The design is half-assed and lame. It references an SNL sketch that everybody is sick to fucking death of hearing about. And it includes its own drum stick in order to offend the ears as well as their eyes.

And how does this even work as a belt buckle? I would like to see one person - just one person - wearing this thing to see how they would pull it off.

And then I would shoot them. Because it makes me that angry.

productpage via fashionablygeek

Geography isn't that difficult.

The Port Authority claims to be "Making our world better one step at a time." But wait... which planet are they talking about?


I never realized The Port Authority was an alien organization. It all makes sense, now.

via boingboing

And if you think their logo is bad...

This is the new tourism logo for the state of Wisconsin (yes, states have logos).

Is the little red man doing a handstand supposed to represent how Wisconsinites should be living? And who thought blood red/pea soup green was an inspired color palette?

The better question is: why do government institutions keep spending obscene amounts of money on logo design and branding that I could have done with ClarisWorks in my middle school computer lab?

This trash cost Wisconsin taxpayers $50,000.

Wisconsin, I'll redesign your logo for $500. Just let me know. I'll totally do it.

via yourlogomakesmebarf