Posts under ‘Dumbest Product of the Week’

My apologies for posting this late on Monday instead of the normal Friday publication date. If you’ve been reading the site lately, you know I was in Michigan learning to build bike frames for the last two weeks, and Friday was spent packing up my frame and traveling. I had intended to write this up [...]

The Dumbest Product of the Week has taken a detour in the last month away from cycling specific products into some generally inane offerings. While that’s completely within my vision of this series, we are a bicycle site so I do not want to go too long before dissecting silly bike products.

This week’s nominee was [...]

Today is Black Friday, the day retailers are supposed to be in the black for the first time all year. The way things have been going the last few months, I doubt very few retailers are coming close to being in black. Indeed, there are signs that American’s 60 years of rampant consumer consumption may [...]

This is a good time of year to be trolling for a nominee for Dumbest Product of the Week. Dozens of papers and magazines are doing year-end rosters of the best products introduced this year which gives me a chance to catch up on “innovations” I may have otherwise missed.
This week’s winner comes courtesy of [...]

I hope by writing this weekly column skewering some of the dumb products developed by the industrial world that we will all re-evaluate our consumeristic tendencies and reduce the market for silly stuff. I’m now hoping I’m not too successful as I may be forcing some future race of cyborgs on a parallel time plane [...]

After another one week absence, our “Dumbest Product of the Week” is back for its tenth edition. My thanks to Marcus for filling in last week with a Dumbest Bank of the Week.
I’ve been on a bit of a food and drink binge with this series lately, and this week we are continuing the trend.  (Bonus [...]

I’m a little late in the afternoon getting this week’s Dumbest Product of the Week up since this is the busiest time of year for my day job, and Marcus and I decide to add the Austin Bike Plan Petition on top of that. Still, I do not want to disappoint our readers by skipping [...]

Sorry folks, but due to time commitments for another exciting Austin Bike Blog project we’ll be announcing next week, I’m going to have to punt the latest Dumbest Product of the Week until next Friday.
We’ll be back to ridicule silly consumerism next week, but in the meantime, in the fine tradition of a sitcom clips [...]

With the complete meltdown of the free market system as we speak, it seems odd timing that the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book would come out this week. Not to be outdone with previous gifts like a personal submarine or 18 karat gold cell phone, the high end retailer released their annual holiday catalogue which included [...]

I’m pretty miffed at BikeSnobNYC for stealing the thunder of my original Dumbest Product of the Week for this week, the titanium commuter bike called the CoMooter from Moots. He artfully muses on the the stupidity of an almost $9000 commuter bike as well as the rampant inflation plaguing the high end bike market these [...]