Saturday, January 9, 2010

Roach-Tech

When a company designs a product, there are many aspects to take into consideration. The product should be appealing to the eye, ergonomic, cheap to produce, etc.. One aspect I believe most vendors don't consider is that the product should be roach unfriendly. What am I talking about?
Well, take for example Avaya's phone:
You can see that attached to it's back (didn't find a better image) is a panel that gives it it's angle. Apparently this panel is a great habitat (at least in the Israeli climate) for roaches and they even consider it a great place to drop eggs:

That's right, this brown thing is a roach egg.
The phone doesn't look so attractive right now, does it?