Automated gestures

2024

Profit-driven design creates irrelevant products; battery-powered objects to replace simple gestures.
A mouthwasher dispenser ↗, a portable fan ↗, an electric corkscrew ↗, batteries are everywhere.

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Irrelevant products for lazy people

As long as battery manufacturing remains linked to exploitatible mining operations and environmental pollution in poor countries, products that replace simple gestures should be reserved for essential uses; addressing motor impairment or limb loss for example, rather than products for lazy, lazy people; you are using an electric corkscrew with your two perfect hands: fuck off!