Posts Tagged ‘Dumbest Product of the Week’

It seems that dumb products fall into broad two categories: overpriced entries into an established market and creative attempts to address non-existent problems. The first, whether blindly following current trends, representing yourself as something you are not, or repackaging a mediocre product to cash-in on fame, all receive my highest contempt as modern day huskerism. [...]

It is a new year, and fortunately for the author (and unfortunately for you, the consumer), there are still dumb products being produced for our enjoyment. The economy is bad, but not that bad. This weeks nominee, Cadel Evans’ Winners energy bar, surpasses previous nominee, Mike Ditka for shamelessly cashing in on minor celebrity. According [...]

Due to family commitments and a general post Christmas, stuffing induced malaise, Dumbest Product of the Week will be taking a one week hiatus. We’ll be back next week with more skewering of silly items foisted on the general public. In the meantime, you can reflect on the year in dumb by checking out our [...]

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and I was searching the web, hoping America’s habit of buying crap would finally ebb.  Seeking left and right for a silly item to mock, with nothing to write about on Friday at 2 o’clock. When what should my weerly eyeballs peek, but another winner of Austin Bike Blog’s Dumbest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]