Sunday, February 24, 2008

Toshiba's Bubble Helmet


I stumbled upon this photo some days ago, later I found out that it's the Toshiba's 360 degree view bubble helmet which according to Toshiba "will give its wearer a 360-degree panorama when watching TV or playing games".


Now forget about its usability and user friendliness to it's end-users. Even if it's just a prototype do you really think that at the user trial tests the subjects would perform normally when trying the helmet?

Some times during user trials, performance of the subjects gets affected by the novelty of the product which is a normal phenomena. In this case however, I think the performance of the subjects must have been affected by the stupidity of the product rather than its novelty. No disrespects to Toshiba, but I'd like to ask the designers of this so-called bubble helmet to have a second look at what they've designed! 

2 comments:

parham said...

It weighs 2.7kg and They plan to sell the helmet within two to three years.but why not now?!?!because according to the rapid evolution of humans neck,our neck can support its weight EXACTLY after that three years.

encrypttie said...

nice comment Parham! lol