Meet the Baby Juicero you never knew you needed

America polishes its droppings. It is our way. Now MSCHF – the arty net drops factory behind blood sneakers and one cookie distribution plugin– created a crappy online monument with a gift shop from a generation of IoT and garbage robots. The objects that inspired them passed on silently, as we never enjoyed items like Juicero, the wifi-enabled Keurig juice that barely produced liquid from packets of juice and yet lifted 120 million dollars in funding. Does she bring us joy now, commemorated as a miniature totem? I will buy this. Without doubt, it is much more functional than the original.

MSCHF’s new Dead Startup toy store features tributes to these concepts, two of which have led to law enforcement investigations. Namely, that of Elizabeth Holmes fake home blood test machine which led to an exhilarating indictment for fraud. Think about the activated speaker mixer / cooler who raised over $ 13 million on Kickstarter and never shipped; then consider a less technological cooler with four taps that a function only when connected to drums.

We can also now own a small, affordable memorial to this 21st century $ 900 Wall-E twerk adaptation. In order to, reduced to its peak by Alexa, much cheaper and more versatile. (Consumer tech journalist Victoria Song thinks he needed more twerking.) And maybe we should thank the One laptop per child project to somewhat achieve its goals of expanding children’s knowledge with a crash course in defective junk food. Each drop is accompanied by a small obituary with lifespans and funding.

In short, the selection of the MSCHF asked us, And after? A training bike for kids? Smart doorbells for police surveillance? A hairbrush that listen to your hair? Is it postmodernism or late capitalism, or are we just not thinking about it because of YOLO?

You might also be wondering what happens to those little PVC keepsakes. Before your mind wanders off the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, know that toys weigh about as much as a Apple-small enough to stick on the dashboard of a cybertruck every time they finally hit the road. About nothing, check out these NFT Space Jam.

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