We spend day and night filtering through all manner of gadgetry and awesomeness in order to bring you the best, the newest and the most likely to help you on date night. Then there’s the other stuff we come across, which we’re now ready to share with you. Behold: the great Rejection List of 2010.
While we here at UD (and we imagine you too) are completely pro-watermelon, there’s something so utterly silly about carting around (on wheels) a properly chilled, full-size melon that we couldn’t see anyone besides professional caterers (or maybe Gallagher) using this. Also: we can’t fully recall the last party requiring a fresh supply of hot melon, either.
Considering your spy-tech arsenal already involves an eyeglass camera, a lapel button-cam and a zipper-cam (which has come in handy on more than one occasion...), the idea of mounting a video recorder to the brim of a baseball hat seemed like false economy. Besides, it’s hard to stay incognito with a giant camera screwed onto your head.
Like competitive Lego-building, bacon soda and the WNBA Developmental League, the metal necktie is one of those concepts that seems good on paper, but in reality... not so much. While we applaud the ingenuity of their creator, we also feel like this gets a little too close to the comical “clothing of the future” idea people had in the ’50s about 21st-century style. Also: nobody likes a rusty tie.
For anyone who’s ever wanted to perpetuate the urban legend that Santa has begun robbing liquor stores, this is for them. For everyone else, it seems like the kind of item that you wake up with after a bender in Kansas City going, “Oh god, did I buy that last night?” Besides, when it comes to skiing with a beard-mask on, we just use our well-worn Chewbacca mask...
If the members of Spinal Tap took a look at a normal six-pocket coat (one each for hands, two on the chest, two liner pockets) and had one of their “this one goes to 11” moments, they’d probably design a coat like this. Sure, having 26 pockets to store all manner of cargo while on the move is handy, but you know what else is handy? A bag.
