In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a cat-shaped robot that blows air to cool down hot food and drink.
Aimed at people with heat-sensitive tongues, the portable device named Nèkojita FuFu operates with an internal fan unit powered by a rechargeable battery and uses an algorithm to mimic human breath.
“A representation of everything that is wrong with design”
Commenter Getbacktowork predicted the device to be “a secret Santa present that will be in the landfill before next Christmas”.
“This is a representation of everything that is wrong with design and maybe even the world as a whole,” scorned Architect incognito.
“Should we really be wasting precious natural resources like oil (plastics) and rare earth materials (battery, processor etc) on an effin’ cat-shaped fan that blows your coffee for you?” they despaired.
Meanwhile, Patricia Thomas also couldn’t see the relevance, calling it a “wonderful, nothing device to fix a non-existent first-world non-problem”.
However, Jeff K was fully in support of the idea, stating “I would absolutely buy this and use it all the time”. They went on to suggest “this is far more useful than the majority of ‘collectible’ design created for no one ever to use”.
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“Perhaps a bit too respectful”
Commenters failed to reach a consensus about an extension entirely clad in rust-coloured Corten steel added to a 1950s house in London by architecture practice Studio on the Rye.
Betty Rubble was impressed. “Wow – a delight,” they applauded. “Elegant, which is a feat with all this asymmetry,” they added.
“I think it’s lovely,” agreed Rd. “Perfect balance between interesting (enough) and modest”.
For Tom Roberts, it was “crisp and clean but perhaps a bit too respectful”.
Jb felt that “they got the form right but everything else wrong”.
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Also stoking plenty of debate in the comments section this week was a story about automotive brand Nissan’s R32EV concept model, an electrified iteration of its popular R32 Skyline GT-R sports car known as Godzilla.
“Forget Jaguar et al’s EV designs – now this is an electric automotive design future I can get behind,” applauded Hey in a comment that was upvoted eight times.
Albia400 was full of praise and said “this is the nicest electric car proposal I’ve seen to date”.
Steve Hassler was also a fan of the concept, writing “I hope other manufacturers jump on this bandwagon”.
However, other commenters were more blunt. Moter Sport33 concluded “this is dumb” and asked “why would you ruin one of your most iconic cars with an EV?”
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Comments Update
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