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Saturday 23 November, 2024
Saturday 23 November, 2024
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8 everyday problems that should have been solved by 2014
WE CAN PAUSE live TV, we’re sending tourists into space, we carry tiny computers around in our pockets…
Why then, are some things still so hard?
1. Microwave controls
We just want to heat up our soup and defrost a few chops.
Can we have a microwave with a “Heat Soup” button and a “Defrost Chops” button, and no other buttons or controls? Thanks.
Oh and while we’re at it, can we sort this out?
2. Using printers
If we could even solve one of these problems, just one…
3. Removing the flimsy protective film on foodstuffs
You know the type we mean: It comes on things like tubs of hummus and frozen meals.
In theory it should peel off smoothly and easily, like this:
In practice, this happens:
4. Pringles tubes
Come on Pringles. Cut us some slack.
5. Flash crash
It’s 2014. Sort it out.
6. Blister packaging
Some companies just want to watch the world burn.
7. Cinema armrests
“Oh, hello stranger. Allow me to awkwardly caress your elbow with my elbow in the dark”… SAID NO-ONE, EVER!
8. USB sticks
There must be an easier way.
What enraging first world problems do you deal with on a daily basis? Let us know in the comments…
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