Singaporean designs retarded looking vest with hardware store products that keeps people away from y
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[quote]Sometimes you're crammed into a line or on public transportation and don't have much choice other than to snuggle up with strangers. Industrial designer Siew Ming Cheng's [URL="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Spike-Away/12573867"]Spike Away vest[/URL]ensures unknown people won't want to squeeze next to you.Cheng created the vest for a workshop at the National University of Singapore. "Trains are usually crowded during peak hours. Everybody will push each other to try and get onto the train. How can I protect my personal space? The idea was then conceived," Cheng writes.
The materials came from the gardening section at a hardware store. The strips of spiky, plastic material were originally meant to keep prying birds and curious cats out of plants. Cable ties hold the strips together into a form that can be worn as a vest.
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And this coming from our Uni student. What is with design students and horribly looking inventions?
[QUOTE]"Trains are usually crowded during peak hours. Everybody will push each other to try and get onto the train. How can I protect my personal space?"[/QUOTE]
By not taking the train.
Just have some leather jacket with barbed wires while you're at it.
It expands rapidly whenever you detect a potential mate, too.
someone's gonna trip and impale their eye on that thing
Looks like something out of Mad Max / A BDSM dungeon
But the snuggling up with strangers is the best part about public transportation.
If you're THIS insecure about yourself and your personal space, then you shouldn't even go outside at all.
my privacy is more important than everyone else's when i'm in public so i'm gonna throw on this obnoxious hostile vest to make sure nobody gets in MY precious space
This is a great way to make trains even worse for everyone else. Imagine if everyone was using these...
[QUOTE=Andokool12;43075116]my privacy is more important than everyone else's when i'm in public so i'm gonna throw on this obnoxious hostile vest to make sure nobody gets in MY precious space[/QUOTE]
Coming from the place where chewing gum is a crime, Im not suprised.
[QUOTE=Primigenes;43075167]He should get ready to be sued for when he accidentally stabs someone.[/QUOTE]
With the way the vest is designed in terms of how the spikes are spaced and how it's made from plastic it'd be impossible to actually stab anyone I'm sure.
If someone fell into it unless their eye hit one of the spikes dead on or something it'd probably just feel like falling onto a really shitty surface.
I think the Russians beat her by a couple hundred years.
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[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;43075201]I think the Russians beat her by a couple hundred years.
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What is/was that even used for?
[QUOTE=kiloy;43075220]What is/was that even used for?[/QUOTE]
To blend in with the porcupines and learn of their plot to overthrow humanity.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;43075201]I think the Russians beat her by a couple hundred years.
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Is that seriously what the image name implies? You'd look so fucking badass wearing that while wrestling bears and shit. Good show, Siberia.
[QUOTE=kiloy;43075220]What is/was that even used for?[/QUOTE]
Bear hunting.
man this is dumb as fuck.
If you don't want people next to you, then don't fucking take public transport.
If you take public transport, being crammed up next to people is inevitable.
Instead, you wear this shit, getting people away from you but in the process make someone else even more crammed.
It's selfish as fuck
The stuff that she made can literally be found in the gardening section of a $2 shop called Daiso, and be made with duct tape.
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There you go, same shit.
[QUOTE=Araknid;43075294]man this is dumb as fuck.
If you don't want people next to you, then don't fucking take public transport.
If you take public transport, being crammed up next to people is inevitable.
Instead, you wear this shit, getting people away from you but in the process make someone else even more crammed.
It's selfish as fuck[/QUOTE]
And you can get sued for any injuries made to anyone, and they'd probably kick you off the bus/train
[QUOTE=Araknid;43075294]man this is dumb as fuck.
If you don't want people next to you, then don't fucking take public transport.
If you take public transport, being crammed up next to people is inevitable.
Instead, you wear this shit, getting people away from you but in the process make someone else even more crammed.
It's selfish as fuck[/QUOTE]
Men violating women on the subway/railway is a serious problem in some parts of the world, they've even got a special word for it in Japan. It might not be as easy as just "not taking public transport." They've solved the problem in some places with special women-only cars but it might not always be available.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car[/url]
This is a special level of social pariahism that I never wished to know about.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;43075524]Men violating women on the subway/railway is a serious problem in some parts of the world, they've even got a special word for it in Japan. It might not be as easy as just "not taking public transport." They've solved the problem in some places with special women-only cars but it might not always be available.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car[/url][/QUOTE]
First they friend-zone me, and now I can't even sexually assault them on trains? When is everybody gonna wake up and take the red pill!
Gene Simmons would totally wear that
[QUOTE=demoguy08;43075524]Men violating women on the subway/railway is a serious problem in some parts of the world, they've even got a special word for it in Japan. It might not be as easy as just "not taking public transport." They've solved the problem in some places with special women-only cars but it might not always be available.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car[/url][/QUOTE]
This would be the best solution for Singapore, since driving is expensive and traffic heavy. Singapore is amazing at executing laws (and people) so a women only cart would not be invaded by men on a regular basis like it is in India.
[QUOTE=person11;43075662]This would be the best solution for Singapore, since driving is expensive and traffic heavy. Singapore is amazing at executing laws (and people) so a women only cart would not be invaded by men on a regular basis like it is in India.[/QUOTE]
No man, that wouldn't work. Our trains are just so jam packed and so terribly inconsistent.
anybody who wears one of these on a train is literally the worst
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Come now, strike me!
[quote]The strips of spiky, plastic material were originally meant to keep prying birds and curious cats out of plants.[/quote]
What a fun and creative arts and crafts project.
Although personally I'd rather have it be a fashionable peacoat menacing with 6" nails and razor blades.
But this is still pretty awesome.
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