Posts Tagged ‘Dumbest Product of the Week’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thank you to another AustinBikeBlog reader for alerting me to the existence of this week’s nominee for our Dumbest Product of the Week. This week’s winner once again attempts to solve a legitimate problem, being seen at night, but takes a wrong turn somewhere along the way and ends up at a dead end with [...]

Since I am competing in the National Age Group Triathlon this weekend, it is only fitting that this week’s nominee for Dumbest Product of the Week be related to the first leg of triathlon, the swim. Thanks to the alert reader who let me know about this product that comes straight from the runway, the [...]

Not every product that makes the cut for nomination as Dumbest Product of the Week is completely idiotic in its original intent. Some products are truly trying to solve a problem but get lost on the way to market and never make it back out of the woods. This week’s product is such a product. [...]

We are back with another edition of Dumbest Product of the Week. Last week and the week before we got started with some really silly cycling products and while I don’t want to limit this series to just bike stuff, I could not resist nominating our next product. It seems the folks over at Trek [...]

Last week, I started a series I hope to bring you each week highlighting the silly, useless things being brought to you, the American consumer, in a fleeting chance that we might all think about what we are doing before we buy one more thing. If I don’t accomplish that, at the least this is [...]

I have a hard time writing about serious things on Fridays. I have a tendency to spend too much time thinking about upcoming rides and the beer that comes after them. In this spirit, I thought I’d start a weekly review of the dumbest products on the market right now. Now, I don’t want to [...]