Not only is the name in very questionable taste, but the product itself seems useless to anyone with access to a laundry closet. The Laptop Burka is a sheet of “breathable, lightweight fabric” which you drape over both yourself and your computer to cocoon the pair of you in a glare-free, psychologically separate space.
Let’s take a look at some of the “features”.
Laptop Burka lets you work or watch movies in your own portable private space.
If you watch movie under this thing whilst in public, there is only one kind of film that passersby will assume you are watching.
Laptop Burka lets you work and play on your laptop without the glare of sunlight or stares from uninvited strangers.
Clearly wrong. Strangers will actually stare more. You just won’t be able to see them.
No more eye straining or battery draining from glare.
True. But neither will there be any more laptop after somebody sneaks up on you unnoticed, deals you a carefully aimed whack to the head and makes off with the machine. Worse, nobody will approach your unconscious form for fear of, well, for fear of meeting the kind of nutjob who would cover themselves like this in public.
And did we mention that it is called the Laptop Burka? Avoid, and as the Lady suggests, just go indoors. $36.
Product page [Laptop Burka. thanks, Mark!]
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