Things to put on your head

The 'Office Collar'

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Remember when you were in fourth grade and wanted to stop other kids from copying your stuff? You'd erect a fortress of open books around your paper, blocking it from prying eyes and creating a little courtyard in the middle for your work.

That's what the "Office Collar" essentially wants to do for your head, except in reverse: It's basically a horse blinder for humans, aimed at keeping you from getting distracted by your surroundings. Textually.org notes that this self-imposed isolation device, the brainchild of designer Simone Brewster, could also be used to help spare co-workers from the intimate details of your phone conversations. Never mind that it makes you look like The Flying Nun in the process.

Head in box

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What really intrigues us, though, is the project pictured just below it on the same page, depicting what looks like a guy who had a box dropped on his head Looney Tunes-style. The description, which says this contraption "uses wireless CCTV observation systems and LCD TV screens to allow him to both fly a kite and see what the kite 'sees' from the sky," makes no sense to us--the guy flying the kite in the video doesn't have the box on his head, for example--but we don't care. The photo alone is worthy of our weird helmet collection.

[philberto]

Is there a top ten dumb ideas blog anywhere?

Of course the person can also effectively avoid going to lunch by also strapping
on a feed bag. And why not a bed pan in the chair to avoid those annoying trips
to the bathroom.

This idiotic idea is also dangerous in that it effectively blocks your peripheral
vision, a necessary component to finding your way safely around.