My eye caught this gem via Steve Portigal at Core77.
Just in time for your Christmas shopping list, or even your Christmas wish list, we have Breakfix, the Cereal Solution. "Changing the World, One Bowl of Cereal at a Time," this invention will revolutionize eating cereal for breakfast. This simple device, and quite real, can with one simple touch dispense a healthy amount of cereal into your bowl without you having to get the box, open the box, and pour it into the bowl yourself. Imagine the possibilities. Dream of the vast time saved each morning, and how those seconds will be added to your life.
Ok. Ok. So I am infusing a bit of sarcasm. Still, this is quite real. There are no jokes, no strings attached, and no mirrors used. For a meager $79.99 you too, or your loved one, can enjoy this cereal dispenser. And apparently nothing like it exists here in the US. Enough of my thoughts. Let's look at some other critiques out there.
My cats have one of those. Except it dispenses cat food instead of breakfast cereal. Although I guess I could put some miniwheat in there. I doubt they would appreciate that.
How do you get the milk into the bowl?
Okay, I'll grant that if you've got disabilities, you probably could use one of these.. . . But everyone else, you of sound body and strong forearms . . . if you just don't have the time to pour a bowl of cereal, then you really must needs to clear your planners and agendas and take a freaking breath!
This would be great, but the milk is still all the way over in the refrigerator, and the bowl is in the cupboard, and the spoon is in the drawer... screw it, I'm going back to bed.
This also needs automatic milk dispensing, otherwise it's just not easy enough and so I will gorge myself on bacon instead.
But how are we going to eat when the batteries die?
I was just saying the other day, golly, I wish I could dispense my cereal faster.
Unless it goes to the store and refills itself when it's empty I really don't see the point.
Oh, glory days, my cereal will sit not on the lonely shelf of segregation, but rest instead on the welcome bosom of the countertop of freedom next to my automatic can opener
So is there an attachment that will pour the cereal out of the box and into this device? What about loading the batteries? Surely it's not manual, is it?
All this ridicule quite unfair. If you're so bloody lazy in the target market for this device, you're probably so bloody lazy far too busy to be posting your opinion of it
i understand why some people may find it funny to mock an invention like this, but over the course of a lifetime it could save you dozens of seconds. that's time you could be spending with your family, watching tv, or just relaxing. think about it, people: would you rather spend your life pouring cereal or eating cereal?
These things are good and fine until a rat falls in there and the entire family succumbs to the bubonic plague.
I like to load my Breakfix full of croûtons, then stick a bowl with one lettuce leaf and half a cup of ranch dressing underneath, and whammo! The perfectly-proportioned salad!
The terrorists have lost!
Obsolete. Breakfast was sooooooo 90s.
What they need to make is one of these things with a timer, like a coffee maker, that you could set to pour you a bowl of cereal mere seconds before you reach the kitchen. This would save you from having to A. go to all the trouble of pushing the button to dispense the cereal and B. wait the interminable amount of seconds it takes for the Breakficks to do its thing. And your Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs wouldn't be stale from having spent too much time sitting on the countertop of freedom
Come on now. I know you have your own thoughts on this one. And yes, there is a connection to graphic design in this. Product design is a large area of the Graphic Design field.
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