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Dec 20

Watchmen Rorschach Toaster: Bread Will Look up and Shout “Save Us!”, and I’ll Whisper, “No.”

Lambert’s Technabob post. December 20th, 2013. Cheap cash-in online this morning, legendary comic book character reduced to novelty item. I am afraid of this culture. I don’t know if it has a face, but it does have a thousand gaping maws. The sites are extended PR machines and the PR machines are filled with… holy crap it’s a toaster that makes Rorschach patterns!

I think the most depressing thing about this is how uninspired the toaster looks. It’s just a plain plastic case with a Watchmen decal slapped on it. I think we should just all treat this as a reference to the psychological test and not to Walter. Okay? Okay. You can order the inkblot test toaster from Amazon for about $32 (USD).

[via Topless Robot]

Nov 18

Kisai’s Rorschach watch is a test in telling time

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“So it’s extremely difficult to read the time, but how do you feel about that?” That’s the question Kisai is posing with its new Rorschach watch, which puts one of the company’s trademark inscrutable watchfaces into the shape of the famous psychiatrist’s inkblots. You can choose between three levels from “readable but still not easily” to “please just tell me what the hell time it is!” (Actually, once you get the hang of it, the hours are read at the top right, and the minutes from the bottom left.) The watch uses an e-paper display, giving it high contrast and a battery life of 2-3 years while letting you switch between black on white or vice-versa. You can grab one in white, brown or black with a leather strap, or black and silver with a metal bracelet at $179 for the next two days — though you may have to line up behind Watchmen fans.

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Sep 17

10 Vivid Rorschach Tests, Made By Camera

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You can call them Rorschach tests, or you can call them inkblots. But what happens when you merge the idea of abstract symmetry with photography? You get the incredible entrants in this week’s Shooting Challenge.