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AT 7:45 AM
Thursday October 23, 2008

Teacup with a CD as a saucer

Most enthusiast product designs fall somewhere between practicality and whimsy... usually closer to a Lewis Carrol-esque fantasy of the technology trade than anything else. This singing teacup concept by Jongmin Kim thoroughly falls under the Cheshire smile of gadget design: the obsolete compact disc is slotted into a saucer, with the tea cup its volume knob.

Singing Teacup [Yanko]

6 Comments

#1 – 10:04 AM October 23, 2008

Yanko is the John the Baptist of crapvendors; I'm always expecting their next design to be a head on a platter--but the head sings!

#2 – 10:52 AM October 23, 2008

I could see this going REALLY well.

#3 – 11:09 AM October 23, 2008

A bit late in my opinion. I don't know many people who buy CDs anymore thanks to MP3. This really would have been a better idea for the 90s.

#4 – 12:12 PM October 23, 2008

Heatherb, I still buy them, then rip them to MP3. I like having the physical media. (Plus I won't buy low-bit-rate or DRM laden music in any form.)

#5 – 1:20 PM October 23, 2008

I guess I just download my music, a do most of my friends. It's cheaper and I'm not left with CD's that I have no use for.

#6 – 3:37 PM October 23, 2008

Delicate electronics + spillable liquids FTW!!! :)

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