“Take My Money!”: 50 Wacky Products You Didn’t Know You Needed, As Shared By The “Odditymall” Facebook Page (New Pics)
At first, you may think a laser grid for your bicycle is weird — but once you ride down unlit roads in the pitch of night, you immediately understand its purpose. The world is loaded with millions of similarly bizarre products that bend the limits of your imagination. And if you think you have already seen it all, from genius product design ideas to plain weird ones, trust us — you’ve barely even scratched the surface.
To show you what we mean, we introduce you to one entertaining corner of the internet called the 'OddityMall' project. This web magazine is dedicated to unique and unusual gadgets, odd devices, quirky design decisions, and downright strange solutions you'll ever lay your eyes on. Featuring heaps of useful and utterly useless products, the news outlet shows that our hands can create whatever our minds dream up, leaving us entertained and inspired.
Our design-loving team at Bored Panda has gone through their feeds and gathered some of the most noteworthy items you can buy, but should you? Well, we're not here to judge! Continue scrolling to see the newest batch of pictures down below, upvote your favorite ones, and let us know which of these products you loved and hated most in the comments.
Psst! When you’re done scrolling through this list, check out Part 1 of this post right here.
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This Is Too Good!
That is one masterpiece of a review Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes fellow Pandas! I didn't expect it at all!!
I Need One Too Grandma!
Awesome!
The 'Odditymall' project was founded in 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ever since then, it has grown into a very popular news outlet that focuses on the newest brilliant inventions, odd gadgets, unusual product designs, and weird contraptions that appear across the web. As it states on their website, as long as the product is obscure, unusual, interesting, or awesome, "you will see it featured on Odditymall."
The web magazine has branched out to all the major social media channels and has gained a strong foothold there. For instance, it has amassed nearly 3.2 million followers on Facebook and 198,000 devoted fans on Instagram.
'Odditymall' continues to surprise every single design enthusiast by consistently gracing them with the strangest products that can be actually purchased online. It's safe to say that weirdness clearly sells, and it wins over the hearts of many internet users.
Genius!
Lover This Idea!
Looks Amazing!
When i was younger i got a kitty and we bought her a cat bed- a really hairy one. And i would crouch in it and sleep with my cat
This social media project also shows that the global marketplace is a crowded, noisy arena. For the end users, there’s plenty to choose from. And for the creators, competition is at every corner. To succeed in the chaos, designers believe they must craft and build products that stand out.
A brief scroll through this list will prove that creators can achieve their goal — even when they do it in a not-so-conventional way. Sometimes, they get so focused on developing a unique product that function, purpose, and aesthetics become more of an afterthought instead of a critical part of the product development process.
Wow!
Love This Look!
This Is Brilliant!
But by now, we are used to well-thought-out products. When we think of great design, items that look good or work well immediately come to mind. From our phones to our cars to our everyday appliances, we have high expectations. After all, companies are investing time, money, and other resources into developing solutions that cater to the needs of the users. To make our lives easier. To solve problems we didn’t even realize we had before.
This is just one reflection of product design. A blog post on ProductPlan defines it as the process of imagining, creating, and iterating objects that solve users’ problems and address specific needs in a given market.
"The key to successful product design is understanding the end-user customer, the person for whom the product is being created. Product designers attempt to solve real problems for real people by using empathy and knowledge of their prospective customers’ habits, behaviors, frustrations, needs, and wants," they explained.
Yes Please!
Brilliant!
This Is Brilliant!
Design thinking means approaching innovation by drawing from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of the client. "Ideally, a product's design execution is so flawless that no one notices; users can intuitively use the product as needed because product design understood their needs and anticipated their usage."
This Is Too Cool!
Too Good!
This Is Brilliant!
To achieve this, it all starts with an idea. And although it may seem that by the 21st century, everything noteworthy has already been invented, that’s not entirely the case. While every designer strives to develop new creative work, original designs are not always the answer. According to Nick Babich, a developer and tech enthusiast, everything is built off something that preceded it.
"Creativity in design is the ability to take past experiences and new information and synthesize them to create something new," he explained. "That’s why designers should always be passionate about expanding their knowledge of the world and stay up to date with current trends (designers need to understand what is generally acceptable and what has been done before). This cumulative knowledge and experience is what helps us craft more insightful designs."
But coming up with innovative and meaningful solutions is far from an easy task. Even if you believe in the idea to its very core, you can’t predict what kind of results the end product will bring. That's why it's important to improve your process and understand that good design practices thread themselves throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Genius!
My dryer came with a removable shelf that stays level for shoes to dry on.
Awesome Idea!
It's Glorious!
As Bruce Mau, a designer and CEO of Massive Change Network, explained, empathy is key as it helps with problem-solving. "Empathy is really at the core of everything I do," explained Mau. "When you think about what a designer does, we start with empathy and try to understand the problem that helps us solve it."
Although design thinking is often thought of as a human-centered approach to innovation, modern practices should move towards having more appreciation and insight for the environment. "Everything is designed as if we own nature and as if we're not part of nature," said Mau. "As if nature is unlimited."
But it is not. "We now understand there is a real limit to the boundaries of nature," he noted. "Everything we do has to be designed in this new way. It has to be designed to be part of life and not separate from it."
"It is daunting, but it's also one of the greatest business opportunities in the history of mankind, the opportunity to take on that level of reset."
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Love that it's an old guy in it not a kid Sone times grown ups wanna slide too
This Looks Pretty Awesome!
Its a student project made by students of the TU Eindhoven {A technical university in the Netherlands} And they drove it al the way to Spain.
Load More Replies...And if you live in the North of England, it generates enough power for two cups of tea per day. If you like your tea tepid.
While we all enjoy a whinge about the weather, I feel I should point out that solar panels work perfectly well in England, even in't north. Average sunlight power per square meter is around 60% what it would be on the equator (yes, taking into account cloud cover). This camper was built in the Netherlands which isn't exactly the Sahara.
Load More Replies...It's actually a student made project by students at the TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands: https://solarteameindhoven.nl/article?presenting-our-newest-solar-vehicle-stella-vita
Load More Replies...Never understood why there aren't solar panels on top of EV cars? Trickle charge is better than no charge.
It CAN be done! We have the schematics to prove it but the auto companies aren't interested. They could have electric vehicles on the road tomorrow running on inbuilt solar panels that would cost nothing to run. Look up Sono Motors in Germany. North American manufacturers are so short sighted.
Load More Replies...Yes it will. It's made in Holland, infested by speed humps, mini roundabouts, speed limits that change every 50ft AND every 5 minutes, and cyclists that ignore just about every traffic law.
Load More Replies...What an awesome project! And built by a team of students: https://vita.solarteameindhoven.nl/about-show
Unfortunately the 450 miles per day figure is not correct - it has a range of 450 miles but it takes 3 days to fully recharge. But that's still way better than I would have expected!
Load More Replies...Maybe it’s just me, but when I go camping I just want to get away from technology.
If this really was a thing, all electric cars would have solar panels. Sad enough you need at least 3 days in a very sunny place to fully charge it.
The claim in the picture cannot be true. 450 miles per day is not possible with current solar cell tech. A quick "back of the envelope" calculation tells me that this thing would produce about 1/100th the power of the batteries in a tesla, which has a bit less than the claimed range of this camper. Given that, and even accounting for some amount of continuous charging on the go, it would still take *3 or 4 days* to build up enough stored energy to go 450 miles. So yeah, not 450 miles per day, more like 450 miles twice a week.
17.5 square meters times let's say they're the most efficient on the market at 220 watts per square meter. Be real generous and call it 4 Kw/h. Yeah, not even close. People are credulous as hell.
Load More Replies...I don't believe this will produce enough energy for 450 miles. Maybe it's 450 on a full charge, but that won't be in one day. Best solar cars can do 45 miles on a 12 hour charge in sunny areas.
This is misleading. It can't actually go 450 miles just on solar power. The battery's range is 372 miles (which is still pretty good!) and if you add in the a sunny day, the car can go 450 miles. So--plug in your camper and fill the battery up, then drive on a sunny day and you may reach 450 miles.
Does all that but can't take a speed bump or pothole, methinks. Looks way too low to the ground.
This would help so many people. Specifically homeless people. Stuff like this should not cost anything and should be given away to help anyone in need.
IF there's a sun to be seen. As a michigander. That's not a thin you see unless it's july or august.
looks nice but the lower part of the vehicle does not seem to be designed for a terrain with obstacles bigger than a tennis ball...
Finally, my escape plan can come to fruition. Any Sugar Daddies available?
No - it doesn't harvest enough solar to drive anywhere near 450 miles - there's just not enough solar panel area, even if you assume an unlikely 34% energy conversion efficiency. And then - the batteries to hold the power? It's rare even for an electric car to have that much range.
Lol. Would never work in the US!! Our roads are too Shitty. You'd tear apart that bumper & underside so fast.
I hope the production model has the actual ground clearance of the pic on the right, or the only place you are going to be able to park is on level, macadam surfaced carparks.
Unless it has a large water tank, you're not showering without being hooked up to a water supply.
Wow cool, but my camper doesn't need any electricity at all. It's also called a tent. I guess I could put wheels on it 🙃
This was a project by students at TU Eindhoven, a technical University in the Netherlands: https://solarteameindhoven.nl/article?presenting-our-newest-solar-vehicle-stella-vita
Load More Replies...I’m kind of in the middle about electric vehicles, yeah it’s cool that you don’t need to pay for gas or mess up the environment but I love the sound of engines (I’m a classic car guy). This thing is awesome though because who needs a camper to make noise.
Have you researched the environmental damage caused by the mining for lithium? And what do you think the electricity you need is generated? What happens when the grid shuts down? In my humble opinion, electric cars are BS.
Load More Replies...Something like this can help so many homeless people, or people in general. It is supposed to be about helping people and thriving during our existence. Yet for some awful reason so many people have made it about money and profit. I honestly don't know how people live with themselves. Knowing there are great things like this solar camper. That can help so many people and the only way you will have access to something like this is if you are already well off financially. Because we all know this thing costs more than the majority of us can afford. It's just so upsetting seeing all the amazing things people have created and it will just go to waste because of profit over people. :``(
These Look Amazing!
So Mau discussed his enterprise design method, which is underpinned by empathy and an understanding of natural ecosystems and human behavior. "The first principle is design leadership," said Mau. "In other words, design is a leadership methodology, a way of imagining a future and systemically executing that vision. Designers have the ability to produce that vision and systematically execute that vision."
Moreover, the designer believes that education must "unlearn a human-centric approach" and be focused on how to integrate design into the natural world.
"Most cities are designed to push nature out," Mau explained. "We have to get to a better place —we have to think about ourselves integrated into the natural world, and that challenges us to do everything differently."
It's Beautiful!
It's True!
While good design should include a balance of form and function and solve our problems, it can even be pretty fun. After all, the debate on creating valuable and completely irrelevant products is a never-ending one, but at its core, good design isn't just aesthetics and usefulness — it should also communicate well and push the boundaries.
What do you think of these unique and unusual contraptions featured in this list? Which ones caught your eye the most? Feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments.
These Look Incredible!
These Should Be Everywhere!
Amazing!
Brilliant!
Wow!
When you want a brain freeze and harden arteries at the same time.
Amazing!
Oh No
Too Good!
Awesome For Tiny Homes
Love This Idea!
The Perfect Napping Spot!
Genius!
Awesome Idea!
I'd Never Leave!
Want!
So Cool!
This Looks Too Fun!
Innovation At Its Finest!
It's Very Sofishticated
It's Glorious!
They missed the perfect opitunity to make a squidwad liquid soap disspenser
Wow!
This Looks Amazing!
Such An Awesome Idea!
No More Mess!
Yes Please!
Thanks, I Hate It
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I wonder how many times you can post "take my money" before bp block you for spamming?
Some of these were pretty cool, but some people will dump on anything, the Negative Noodles.
Would have shared about half these with my cat-sessed daughter, but then i would have come home to find them in my house in a week or so...what are all these charges on the MC?!?!?!
I wonder how many times you can post "take my money" before bp block you for spamming?
Some of these were pretty cool, but some people will dump on anything, the Negative Noodles.
Would have shared about half these with my cat-sessed daughter, but then i would have come home to find them in my house in a week or so...what are all these charges on the MC?!?!?!