8 pointless uses of carbon fiber
Carbon Fiber matches wood in terms of flexibility of form and surpasses steel in terms of strength. Because of this it is beginning to be used as a decorative item, replacing walnut in car dashboards, for example.
This consciously decorative use can work well, but where carbon fiber is used for pseudo functional design, like the carbon fiber letter opener shown here, the choice is inappropriate and ridiculous.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. A carbon fiber mousetrap is not a better, just more expensive. This item would make a great trophy in an competition for bad design - the worse mousetrap awards.
Note that the tissue box has the same rectangular form factor as the ‘mans tissue’, rather than the girly square version. Tissue box covers often balance the rear of cars where furry dice hang at the front, they are pointless and ugly. This adds expensive to the list of attributes. The tissue box perfectly compliments your toilet seat.
A high performance dog food bowl. Dogs are not much interested in tableware over food, which is why they don’t get served haute cuisine in fine bone china, let alone state of the art modern materials.
Knuckle Dusters are traditionally made of brass, making them heavy and strong enough. Whatever the issues of the weapon itself, to use a material like light-weight carbon fiber for an item which is designed to increase the inertia of a punch is knuckle headed.
Opening letters would make the most boring of Olympic sports. That alone says something as to why the action of letter opening should require anything other than the dullest of dull knives.
This is the bottom end of the F1 brand food chain, offering the same material used in state of the art race cars costing millions of dollars for an item usually given away at trade shows.
The official Formula 1 mouse pad. Carbon Fiber, leather and a nearly $500 price tag.
