Apple’s BIGGEST design flaw gets (sort of) fixed by this YouTuber’s 3D-printed plastic accessory

For a YouTube channel named Unnecessary Inventions, this might be their most necessary one yet…

If you’ve been on the internet long enough, you’ll have come across Matty Benedetto or one of his hundreds of creations that solve some of the world’s most ridiculous problems, like wanting to eat an Oreo without hands, or wanting your sunglasses and AirPods to exist as one singular device. Benedetto finds ridiculous problems and over-engineers even more absurd solutions, prototyping them and putting them to the test (some are even available on his web store)… although this problem may not be so ridiculous after all. Widely touted as Apple’s biggest design flaw, the company’s Magic Mouse is infamous for needing to be flipped over in order to charge it, making it entirely useless in the process. It’s inelegant, and the only (logical) explanation seems to be the fact that Apple doesn’t want you using the mouse while you charge it, but Benedetto has a clever solution that defies it all… well, sort of.

Designer: Matt Benedetto (Unnecessary Inventions)

Having faced this problem too, Benedetto decided to tackle it head-on, or rather, underside-on, because that’s where the charging port is located on the Apple Magic Mouse. Benedetto’s solution just involved bending the wire and introducing a makeshift trolley that still allows you to slide the mouse around your mousepad/desk WITH the bent wire. Simple, isn’t it?

Made from 2 pieces of 3D-printed plastic, with massive ball-bearings on either side, this unnecessary invention lets you route an L-shaped lightning cable through it and right into the charging port. On the other side of the mouse lies its optical sensor, which Benedetto believes wouldn’t get affected too much, because his invention literally props the Magic Mouse up instead of having it lay flat against the surface. Using the Magic Mouse with this nifty gadget actually proved that his calculations were right, and that the optical sensor could, in fact, still work even when angled ever-so-gently… but that wasn’t where Benedetto’s solution ran into a brick wall.

Much to his chagrin, Benedetto discovered (quite literally the hard way) that no matter what sort of over-engineered solution he would come up with, it was doomed to fail. You see, the evil folk at Apple didn’t just awkwardly place the charging port on the Magic Mouse… they also built a kill-switch into it which would cause the mouse to NOT WORK while charging. Pretty devious, isn’t it? I guess it’s just Tim Cook’s way of telling us all to just buy the Magic Trackpad instead.

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Meet the unnecessary designs that have taken the internet by storm: Part 4

Design is about problem-solving. Designer Matt Benedetto, on the other hand, changes his approach to design by changing his understanding of the problems we face! Meet Unnecessary Inventions, a collection of designs by Matt himself that solve ridiculous problems that you honestly did not know existed until you came across his solutions! Don’t be surprised if you want these products, as we surely have a list.

Popping bubbles on bubble wrapping paper is a guilty pleasure of its own, something we’ve all indulged in at some point or the other. The Burst Your Bubble Belt Buckle™ allows you to strap bubble wrap onto your belt using this special utility device. Feeling stressed at work, or just simply saturated with life? Keep bursting bubbles all day along with this buckle, relieving yourself of all your worries!

The Jigsaw Puzzle Coffee Table™ is actually a reason why you could be late to your zoom call – it sounds better than the ‘dog ate my notes’ excuse. Along with providing great pass time, it is literally impossible for you to work from home with ease without your trusted laptop table that currently lies in pieces. FYI – the table comes with NO instructions included!

Stepping out in this pandemic without a mask is like stepping into a line of fire, only here we cannot even see the bullet aka viruses coming our way! Fear not, the Coro-neck™ is here to save you! Stay sexy while staying safe with this deep-V neck t-shirt whose flap converts into an emergency mask – staying COVID-free has never been this fashionable!

The OldSpice Hat Hoverer 2000XL™ lets your wavy locks shine while your sport your favorite cap, hovering a few inches above your head! The innovative vacuum suction machine comes with an easy-to-wear harness, allowing you to lug your hover machine with ease while your good hair day will go ahead with ease!

When settled in a warm cozy bed, it is one of the most hated tasks, having to step out and switch off that pesky light! While IoT promised to save us from those forgotten lights or switches to be turned off, an easier and fun solution is what the Bedtime Finger Blaster™ brings to us with this innovative take on a Nerf gun. Stay comfy and snug while this portable finger slings across the room to get those switches for you. Happy sleeping!

They say two is better than one but in this case, one is more than enough to take on both of your pockets. We are talking about the Solo Stash™, a uni-pocket that stretches across the back of your jeans, providing a huge space to store all things extra. Now only if we could store this lot and sit down comfortably…

Come out of this quarantine with muscles to flaunt along with a freshly painted home with the Paint-ercise Rollers™! These easy to strap on rollers let you unleash your creative side while giving you a full-body workout – who said quarantine had to be boring?!

Summer is here and while we can’t wear our Beer Cap, The Mixer Mask™ is the safest way to chug your favorite drink while keeping the nasty virus away. For the days you do step out of home, this protective mask comes with a 16oz pouch that holds your beverage for you while you suck in some Vitamin D!

Crocs Gloves™ feature the best of the iconic shoes, including the thick foam material and safety strap. Start getting all your household chores done in style.

For the days when you are too cold to flip people off but just have to, because how else would you display your feelings for them, you have the Flippin’ Mittens™! Designed to keep your fingers warm and your opinions public, this mitten arrives with a very specific middle-finger cutout that can be flexed to flip people off without losing the warm sanctuary of your mittens.

For more of these innovative designs so unnecessary, we just want some of them for fun, check out the collection here!

Meet the Unnecessary Designs that will take your wfh experience by storm!

Taking the definition of product design and turning it topsy-turvy, our favorite designer Matt Benedetto is back with designs, that are by his definition, unnecessary! While staying home has brought out our creativity, Matt (of the Unnecessary Inventions page on Instagram fame) has used his considerable powers into making work from home work for us. Fun, quirky, and innovative, each of his designs require 3D Printing, Sewing, Mold Making, and more to go from an idea to a physical product. Made with humor and love, the products provide a solution to problems we had not considered as a problem until we come across one of his solution-oriented products. We hope you love this collection as much as we do and don’t be surprised if you actually want some of his designs, we certainly do!

The Jigsaw Puzzle Coffee Table™ is actually a reason why you could be late to your zoom call – it sounds better than the ‘dog ate my notes’ excuse. Along with providing great pass time, it is literally impossible for you to work from home with ease without your trusted laptop table that currently lies in pieces. FYI – the table comes with NO instructions included!

Summer is here and while we can’t wear our Beer Cap, The Mixer Mask™ is the safest way to chug your favorite drink while keeping the nasty virus away. For the days you do step out of home, this protective mask comes with a 16oz pouch that holds your beverage for you while you suck in some Vitamin D!

While we remain safely encased at home, the downside is we have to take our own pictures of us ‘working productively’ from our newly setup work corner. How to achieve that feat without investing in a tripod? The easy solution is to use Selfie Sandals™  to get those coveted shots! Twist and lift your leg as needed to take the perfect selfie, free leg workout is a bonus!

 

Hardly Working From Home Desk™ is the desk you secretly wanted but did not know about it till you saw this! This desk balances your work and the not-work activities with special accessories such as an integrated beer dispenser, a dedicated snack cubby and a flip-up smartphone mount that hold your phone above the screen, so you can watch the show while fooling your meeting to look like you are staring intently at the screen – just remember to add some nods in between! And when you are finally ready to get some work done, the desk comes with chains to strap you in place till you get the work done!

With Zoom Shutters™ you know that the 5 min break you take is not visible to your team with your camera ‘accidentally’ being left on. These shutters attach to your laptop and work just like the window blinds for your front camera. Now take your Zoom Meeting breaks and prance around without pants with your privacy intact!

After a hard-ish day at work, you just want to stream a show and lose yourself in the dramatic world of great story-telling. What you don’t want is to get confused about what should your choice be? To take away your decision-making woes, Matt created the Streaming Roulette Dice Game™ to let the dice decide for you. So get on with streaming and leave the decision making to these bad boys.

In all honestly, I could do with The Stop Snacking Scale™! Balance and monitor your food intake by taking your willpower out of the equation with this design. The logic is simple, the more you eat, the higher the tray goes, taking those delicious munchies out of your reach!

With quarantining and avoiding food deliveries, ramen is our savior. However, have you been poked in the eye or lost your noodles, dumpling, or food in general to chopsticks manhandling? The Handy Chops™ is here to save your morsel! These hand-shaped chopsticks carry all the style of the chopsticks without requiring any kung-fu ability to take the food to your mouth. Now conveniently eat with hands, albeit not you own.

The Snooze-Omatic™ ensures you have an even deeper sleep, perfect for that lazy working day! While we all tend to hit the snooze button at least once every morning, with this automatic snooze hitter, you won’t have to bother moving your arm to quiet that pesky alarm clock. Stay warm in the cocoon of your blanket and let this attachment do all the snoozing for you!

Take the guesswork out of reading time with the Drink O’Clock™. This 24-hour clock uses only one hand to tell you whether it is Happy Hour yet! Forget about knowing the exact minute, this clock highlights what is really important – are the working hours over yet?!

For a highly productive day, it is great to start off with some inspiration. What better than The CyberToaster™ to help you with that. Toasting Elon Musk’s face to your bread, this high-powered toaster is designed to match the aesthetics of your CyberTruck. Talk about power breakfast!

For more of these funny and intriguing product designs, check out these articles!

Meet the unnecessary designs that have taken the internet by storm: Part 3

It’s April first, aka April Fool’s Day! While we are acutely aware of how COVID-19 pandemic has us safely quarantined in our homes for the near future, we can’t help but worry over this nightmare and hope for some relief. So much so that many of us (including me) lost sight of the fact that its April’s Fools Day, the day traditionally filled with light-hearted pranks. Today we decided to push the gloomy news aside and bring to you some well-designed entertaining products that according to their designer and creator are completely unnecessary, but are sure to bring some well-deserved laughter and brighten up your day! Meet Matt Benedetto, the designer running the Instagram page Unnecessary Inventions whose inventions have taken the internet by storm!

They say two is better than one but in this case, one is more than enough to take on both of your pockets. We are talking about the Solo Stash™, a uni-pocket that stretches across the back of your jeans, providing a huge space to store all things extra. Now only if we could store this lot and sit down comfortably…

Even after the COVID-19 dies down a bit, we are going to require self-discipline and prevention techniques that ensure we don’t revive the pandemic. Built following the CDC guidelines, the Pandemic Prevention Utility Belt™ comes with spandex connected strings that won’t let your hands touch your face! The utility belt comes with 2 spare ‘hands’, one for shaking hands with the people you meet so you don’t seem disrespectful while the other hand comes with an attached sleeve for you to sneeze into! Lastly, two hand-washing pockets are attached at the front of this multi-functional gadget to keep your hands washed and clean at all times.

For the days when you are too cold to flip people off but just have to, because how else would you display your feelings for them, you have the Flippin’ Mittens™! Designed to keep your fingers warm and your opinions public, this mitten arrives with a very specific middle-finger cutout that can be flexed to flip people off without losing the warm sanctuary of your mittens.

Do you know those moments in life when you need to have a nugget to keep you going? This necklace is for all the breakfast, pre-lunch, post-lunch or whatever-ungodly-hour times the cravings strike. Whenever the chicken nugget fervor rises, the Nuggie Necklace™ is here to rescue you. If you ask me, I would take this over a Batmobile any day, unless the Batmobile has a nugget compartment!

Summer is almost here and who wants to waste all that time rubbing deodorant on our armpits? Well, now you don’t have to! The Dual-Odorant™ comes equipped with two deodorant sticks (go with the same fragrance or you can even mix them up for fun) that lets you get minty-fresh pits in half the time!

Stylishly transparent, the Transpari Pockets™ permanently solves the lifelong question – which pant has my wallet and keys?! Providing guaranteed 100% transparent plastic and durability, this hottest piece from the fashion runaways is the perfect mix of functionality and a certain, umm…shall we say, aesthetic quality!

This state-of-the-art Offensive Snowball Maker™ has you prepped for the upcoming winter. In fact, we are so impressed by it, we might just take it out with us to the beach and make sand structures of this perfectly sculpted middle-finger shaped mold. Who would dare to anyone kick my sandcastle now (evil laughter)!

Don’t you just hate it when you want to listen to your music with only one AirPod but the sound stops the moment you remove the unwanted earbud? Worry not, the ExtraEar Pod™ is here to hold onto the extra earbud while you single-handedly (I mean ear-ly) listen to your favorite tunes!

This invention might just become a real-life bestseller! Meet the Crapper Concealer™- your best buddy for those days you know you will let out some obnoxiously smelly fumes and don’t want to be recognized by your neighbors in the adjoining stalls by your uniquely fabulous shoes. Just enter the loo, put on your Crapper Concealers and happily go about making the space unfit for human occupation!

Have you been poked in the eye or lost your noodles, dumpling, or food in general to chopsticks manhandling? The Handy Chops™ are here to save your morsel! These hand-shaped chopsticks carry all the style of the chopsticks without requiring any kung-fu ability to take the food to your mouth. Now conveniently eat with hands, albeit not you own.

If you’re interested in more unnecessary yet intriguing designs like these, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series!

Meet the unnecessary designs that have taken the internet by storm: Part 2!

For a product to really work for us, and for it to work well, it needs to be jam-packed with high functionality, and promise to solve at least some critical issues for us. However, Matt Benedetto, creator of the Unnecessary Inventions page on Instagram, develops products to solve problems that don’t exist. Or maybe they do exist, and we just don’t consider them a problem, until we come across one of his solution-oriented products! And to be honest, I have half a mind to purchase at least a few of these!

Popping bubbles on bubble wrapping paper is a guilty pleasure of its own, something we’ve all indulged in at some point or the other. The Burst Your Bubble Belt Buckle™ allows you to strap bubble wrap onto your belt using this special utility device. Feeling stressed at work, or just simply saturated with life? Keep bursting bubbles all day along with this buckle, relieving yourself of all your worries!

If you own AirPods, you know the feeling when one of them goes missing, and you’re left sitting with only one pod in hand. You’re probably even more familiar with the feeling of rushing about trying to find it, the relief that follows when you do, or the shame if you never do. Benedetto’s BulkPods™ comprises of a super cool charging case filled with enough AirPods to last you a lifetime. An accompanying lanyard helps you to attach it to your belt or bag, and you can carry the case stuffed with AirPods everywhere.

If you’ve ever stepped on a piece of LEGO, you know there’s no pain worse than that. The Lego Socks™ were designed to make sure you never experience it again. Put on the socks, and try walking on pieces of LEGO. The flexible sole with a geometric hole pattern picks up the LEGO bricks, allowing them to get attached to it. And you’ll feel no pain at all!

The Tear-Rings™ is a pair of earrings to wipe away those treacherous tears! Pop these earrings into your ears, and let yourself have a little cry if you need one. Tug out some tissue paper from them, and wipe away those tears when you’re good to go. Refillable cartridges for the tissues arrive every other day on a subscription basis. Prepare yourself for some neat and tidy crying sessions!

Another product that’s even better equipped to handle your crying sessions! The Sobbing Spectacles™ feature two highly absorbent sponges to soak up your tears as you cry along. Carry these around with you everywhere, and shed a couple of tears without any fear. Simply squeeze out the salty water once you’re done, and the spectacles are as good as new!

Our Instagram feeds are always overflowing with posts, and going through them all can sometimes end up feeling like a chore. Here’s where the Swipe-n-Like 4000™ comes in. The little robot will automatically swipe through your feed for you, while its proprietary algorithm will like all the pictures that are suited for your Instagram and you! Give your fingers a quick break from the constant swiping.

JiffyCuts™ combines four nail cutters into one. You can now cut all your fingernails in one go, rather than going through them one by one. A nail cutting solution that not only saves time but makes the experience a lot more fun than you expected!

You know when you pick up a baguette from the bakery and just wish you had a suitable bag to carry it in? Well, me neither, but somebody out there must. The Baguette Pack™ is an ergonomically designed pouch featuring the perfect shape and size to carry a baguette. Simply slide the baguette in, and stroll home knowing your piece of bread is completely protected!

Now here’s one design I definitely need! The Chip-Xractor™ is a patented high-suction device with an ergonomically designed tip, that sucks out that last chip at the bottom of the can. No more struggling to fish out the final chip with this 4X long turbine shaft equipped design! An accompanying can holster allows you to carry a can of chips with you everywhere.

The MegaPod™ is basically a ginormous and supersized AirPod! Our tiny little AirPods can be exceedingly easy to lose, however, that’ll never happen with The MegaPod™. The 12″ headphone does everything at a 100X scale. Simply place the pod near your ear, and have yourself an XL audio experience!

With Facebook around, we have practically no privacy…except in the washroom. But The Zucker-Rug™ promises to invade that as well! The bathmat has moisture sensors to know when you shower, sound recording to identify when the sink is running, and smell-o-vision for when you use the toilet, with all this data reported back to Facebook!

If you’re interested in more unnecessary yet intriguing designs like these, check out the Part 1 of this series!

Meet the unnecessary designs that have taken the internet by storm!

Form and functionality – these are the core factors that define any good product design! But this one innovator has us scratching our heads with his ingenious take on some problems we may or may not have, with solutions that are as innovative as the trouble itself! Meet Matt Benedetto, creator of the Unnecessary Inventions page on Instagram who creates solutions, from his recently viral Croc Gloves, a version of Thanos’s gauntlet that comes with sauces for all your chip dipping needs, to even a Pizza Fanny Pack, that to be honest, would be a fun carry-on for those days when you just need that slice of pizza to make everything better!

Crocs Gloves™ feature all the best things from the shoes, including that thick foam material and safety strap. Start getting all your household chores done in style.

Incognito Kicks™ lets you feel the ground beneath you where ever you go. Just slip on these comfortable loafers and enjoy the sensation of walking barefoot while maintaining the appearance of appropriate attire. 

This Avengers-inspired Infinity Saucelet™ brings all your fast food dreams to life in one snap of your fingers. This extremely powerful gauntlet can wield the power of all of your favorite fast food sauces all at once. Cover everything in sauce… whatever it takes.

The Pizza FannyPack™ lets you carry your precious pizza, anywhere – anytime! Strap on our futuristic fanny pack that features two transparent pouches for your favorite slices on the go! The rugged waist strap has a high impact resistant buckle and reflector for a safe Pizza Party on the go. 

Meet the TetherPods™ If you are sick and tired of your Apple AirPods always falling out or getting lost, then I have exciting news for you. Those issues are now a thing of a past with our signature iPhone Case that features an attached flexible cord that easily slides onto each AirPod. Always have a secure lifeline directly to your phone.

The UtilityNails™ are here for any home improvement job. Simply secure these rugged steel nails with superglue and have all your tools at the tips of your hands. It features wrenches, screwdrivers, and an Allen key! 

The Digits Comb™ for the times you just don’t want to run your hands through your hair, simply use our silicone fingers comb. Breeze through your hair as if you would be doing it with your own hands to get each strand back in its place. 

Scooter Computer Commuter™ lets you grab your electric scooter and get those TPS Reports done before you even get to work. This stand-up desk is designed specifically for your electric scooter to ensure you are making the best use of your time. Now back to work and don’t be late! 

Wearing the FlopFlips™ means you can reverse your steps to ditch that stalker on the beach. These sandals feature a backward sole to ensure all your footprints always appear to be traveling the opposite direction you are walking.

With EyeWiped™ you can swish and say goodbye to those annoying raindrops on your sunglasses. Outfitted with water detecting sensors, automatically wipe away any water that gets onto your lenses when you are out and about. Finally no need to take your shades off during that class 5 hurricane. 

The SockLocker™ is a solution for all who are sick and tired of always losing just one of your favorite socks! Completely turn your life around with our handy little sock storage device so you never misplace any of your precious socks. Three proprietary sock hangers are included to neatly and safely hang your sock collection.