{"id":197,"date":"2006-06-26T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2006-06-26T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:28:49","slug":"useless-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Useless design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;NASA spent 8 years and billions developing a pen that could write in space. It needed to be able to work in zero gravity, at a range of temperatures, and be able to write on any surface. The Russians used a pencil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the pen took only 2 years and 2 million to develop, but it is a great story that is true for many products.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of term for useless inventions coined by <a style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" title=\"J@pan.Inc\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japaninc.net\/article.php?articleID=762\" class=\"broken_link\">Kenji Kawakami<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chindogu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/history\/useless.html\">chindogu<\/a>, more <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chindogu 2\" href=\"http:\/\/website.lineone.net\/~sobriety\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kuhf.org\/programaudio\/engines\/eng1460_64k.m3u\">here.<\/a> Some of these inventions are hilariously funny, however, I suspect that car companies stumbled accros the the Softdrink Holder and thought it wasn&#8217;t such a useless idea after all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image49\" alt=\"invnts5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/invnts5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portable office tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;NASA spent 8 years and billions developing a pen that could write in space. It needed to be able to work in zero gravity, at a range of temperatures, and be able to write on any surface. The Russians used a pencil.&#8221; It seems that the pen took only 2 years and 2 million to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}