Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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  4. mr_flay

    Replaced all the little fleurs-de-lys with stylised little spaffing phalluses? It’s why the tissues are there, when all’s said and done.

    Okay, yes. And for when you have a cold, or runny eyes, or any number of other things. It’s (presumably) in a hotel though, so I stand by what I said.

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  5. simonsatori

    This is a difficult question.

    On the one hand you’re a practical man who probably sees that a cardboard box containing tissues is a simple and effective design so the only thing you might change would be to make it a plain box and save on printing silly patterns on it.

    On the other hand you are a techy. You are seduced by ‘the dark side’ and believe that microchips can improve most things if only to add amusing novelties to otherwise mundane items. Therefore your new design might include wheels and a remote control so that when you’ve got flu the box can come to you instead of you having to get up to find it. Or it could have a proximity sensor on it that pushes forth a new tissue when your hand gets within three inches of it, or perhaps it could have more lights on it, or some memory or something.

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  7. octalbunny

    Combine that with a printer, a microphone and either a rating community or a news website where users vote for what goes on the front page.

    You reach for a tissue
    A ratable page is printed
    If a sneeze is heard in the next 30 seconds, the last thing printed gets a negative vote.
    If another tissue is drawn and then a sneeze is heard, the first thing printed gets a positive vote.

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  8. neilh

    Ideally one which puts them into a different and exciting new personal hell that they don’t notice until they’ve bought it.

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