Comments on: Impracticality is the new practicality

Impracticality is the new practicality

Fuzzy Skinner — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:53:43 -0800

Get your creative juices flowing and challenge your thinking with a visit to trucdesign.com, a showcase of innovative, incredible, and often impractical products and concepts. Just a few direct links: Cardboard furniture for kids, CoffeeTime seating, Paper Airplane coffee table, Double-O cooking system, Carpet-lounge.

LobsterMitten — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:12:54 -0800

Truc is one of my favorite French words (disclaimer: I know very little French). Just means "thingamabob" or "whatzit".

LobsterMitten — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:15:12 -0800

See also chindogu, Japanese inventions that are deliberately quasi-practical. Also the web design of the chindogu.com page is impressively 1997.

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:39:10 -0800

Truc means "trick", as in "That's a cool trick."

Monochrome — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:12:10 -0800

Thanks for this. It reminds me of the HalfBakery.