Automatic Breakfast Machine Fails to Awake Interest
March 16th, 2009 link to (permalink)
The teasmaid and its close relation, the automatic coffee maker, are fundamentally flawed. Not as designs, but at a conceptual level: The only time you actually need coffee before you can leave the bed is when you have a monstrous hangover — which means that, by definition, you were unable to...
March 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am
The teasmade is a particularly interesting form of bad design.
Its something that sounds like a good idea, but isn’t, and therefore will always be the kind of thing that crops up periodically in in-flight gadget catalogs.