Design
A Mirrored 'Stealth Cap' for Hiding in Crowds
Who doesn't want to enjoy some alone time in a shiny polyhedron from outer space?
People who carp that design schools aren't producing anything of value these days should stop to consider the OwnZown, an innovative attempt to give privacy to pedestrians in overstuffed cities.
Recall those street-corner confessionals for noisy urban environments? They seem positively quaint compared against the alienating OwnZown, a wearable piece of camouflage that employs two-way mirrors and looks like it just dropped out of the seventh dimension. Created by students at the Detmolder Schule für Architektur und Innenarchitektur in Detmold, Germany, the OwnZown debuted last month at a Milan design fair, simultaneously baffling and charming audiences with an inhuman design that only a student of Archimedean solids could love.