Design for technology addicts

Great idea, originally I planned to buy a HMD system but it's much more cheaper and safer!

hahahaa, wtf. i hope you get mugged wearing that.

Dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Great Idea, you'll never see your attacker coming, then you can use the excess cloth to soak up the blood from where the bat hit you in the back of the head

So... I can get this as a plugin for my burka, right?

Uh, I think it's an art project and not something you...ya know..really wear, guys.

this is a good how to never get laid tutorial

I just thought I had seen it all until now...

I doubt these will ever take off and prolly aren't really real anyways...

Hey, the military may pick up this for viewing top secret documents!

That is the most awesome thing!

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I want one. Badly.

this is the gayest shit ever

that is hysterical! loving it.

Im shocked at the extreamly, narrow minded nature of the posts on here. Its a piece of critical design thinking, and quite an insightful and poetic one, can't you morons understand that.

what an awesome idea;) all u people who insulted it r freakin dum.. cause they obviously rn't gunna change anythign just cause a few morons started bitching. i totally want one for my ipod.

This idea has actually already been done by Archie comics circa late 1980's. Unlike the mobile phone however, the comic strip used the idea with a television set (and Reggie Mantle).

In what way is it a 'piece of critical design thinking' James? For me its just a good image. An illustration, which is well art directed but not particularly critical (comics and artists have played on this theme with television, as someone mentioned before). Its definately a photo that will make people smile and magazine editors happy but not much more. It is in a similar vein (and uses much the same *design methods* ie. Slick photography and copy) to Anthony Dunne's work, but like much of the work from students that try to ape his style (some featured here already) the work is just not clever enough or critical enough to get away with it.And sometimes they end up inadvertantly insulting those scientists, social scientists, writers and academics who have been devoting years and years to envisioning a future or developing breakthrough technolgies and medicines.
I think its a fun piece of communication design - and most people seem to appreciate it as that - I don't think its a 'peice of critical design thinking'.

I really like this device, but I wouldn't try to walk while using it. "What curb?!" Here in the NorthEast we have been doing a variation of this at football games, on beaches at night, etc. It involves the use of a large blanket, 2 people, and mutual interests.