Protective Rain Hat

http://protectiverainhat.com/

by coldtea • 11 years ago

81 36 11 years ago

protectiverainhat.com

Rainymood• 11 years ago

I seriously wonder why there are no pictures with human models.

stefantalpalaru• 11 years ago

No human models could be convinced to pose for this.

a3n5• 11 years ago

No human models were harmed in the making of this web site.

MadcapJake• 11 years ago

The pictures page is downright creepy

god_bless_texas• 11 years ago

I feel like I just got put on a list for browsing fetish websites

keithpeter• 11 years ago

I thought it was an art project or a master's photography exhibit for a bit. Like the one where they photographed a model frog in an aquarium against various landscapes.

yitchelle• 11 years ago

what makes you think that those heads are not human?

8ig83• 11 years ago

"THE PROTECTIVE RAIN HAT HAS FLEXIBILITY AND STANDS UP TO MOTHER NATURE"

http://protectiverainhat.com/index.html

CAUTION: PLEASE DO NOT WEAR THE PROTECTIVE RAIN HAT IN HAIL STORMS. IT IS NOT HARD AND WILL NOT PROTECT YOUR HEAD.

http://protectiverainhat.com/order.html

8ig83• 11 years ago

Looks like they originally had a see-through version...

https://web.archive.org/web/20070225104557/http://www.protec...

8ig83• 11 years ago

And here's the patent, which has expired due to unpaid fees...

http://www.google.com/patents/US6341380

thomholliday• 11 years ago

This is the apex of website design.

(Heck, it's the most memorable site I've seen today.)

And I can't help but think this looks like some weird cult. Will anyone put $41 down to see what we're getting in for?

evincarofautumn• 11 years ago

It is a sublime example of the good old-fashioned “motherfucking website” of 20-odd years ago. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

I would buy one, but I live in California, where I cynically expect it never to rain again.

Joeboy3• 11 years ago

It's more like an example of what happened when people started deciding a motherfucking website wasn't good enough.

It doesn't have parallax scrolling or underscore.js or whatever it is the young people are digging in 2015, but it does have an entry tunnel, a disgusting colourscheme and an ineptly embedded soundtrack.

Edit: That said, if you want to find out about Protective Rain Hats and maybe buy one, this website probably provides an above average user experience for a 2015 website. Loads fast, tells you what you need to know, probably works (well enough) on anything.

a3n5• 11 years ago

Thanks for that link.

I just looked at it from my laptop and from my phone, and it reflows on my phone so that I don't have to scroll, or embiggen and then scroll, just to read it.

Why have people forgotten how to do that?

analog31• 11 years ago

For my small business, I have a supplier who's website looks like it was created by a teenager in the 90s. For instance all of the navigation buttons are weird little animations. And yes, there's colored, blinking text.

But it always puts a smile on my face when I use it, because it's perfectly functional yet tacky in a good way.

nissehulth• 11 years ago

I believe this was the apex: http://www.lingscars.com/

baddox• 11 years ago

I wondering if they're really still located in Hunter's Point, San Francisco.

jameshk• 11 years ago

I'm tempted to just for laughs, but I'm not sure they ship to Canada.

benchdog• 11 years ago

Product design by Devo: na na na na, crack that whip.

japhyr• 11 years ago

which has a dome-like configuration and an interior surface that receives the human head

I love that it has an interior surface that will receive my human head.

kabdib2• 11 years ago

Yay for not having to use my non-human heads.

/totallyNormalHuman

/totallyNotAnAlienObserver

a3n5• 11 years ago

Do you get chastised by your homeworld when you walk up to the line like that?

JoeAltmaier• 11 years ago

...or in other words, a hat.

robmccoll• 11 years ago

Instantly made me think of this quote from Eurotrip:

Jamie: It's a traveler's money belt. Frommer's says if you have one of these, no-one can rob you of anything.

Scott: Except your dignity.

jmnicolas2• 11 years ago

I'd be really interested by a good rain hat : something that protects my glasses from rain (the one to invent really efficient anti-rain / fog glasses will be rich) and that dampen the noise of the rain when it falls on the hat.

It should not look like an alien spaceship though and I should be able to buy it on a website that was not made with Frontpage 97 ;-)

Joeboy3• 11 years ago

I should be able to buy it on a website that was not made with Frontpage 97

Would you boycott a useful product because of the aesthetics of its website (which is actually relatively accessible and functional)?

jmnicolas2• 11 years ago

It's not about the aesthetics but about security : a Frontpage 97 looking website screams noobs or fraud, I don't want to give them my credit cart info in either case.

In fact nowadays noobs and frauds are doing better than that, it's probably just a joke.

brianolson• 11 years ago

this appears to be somewhere between timecube and bronner soap

corysama• 11 years ago

Sigh... How is this even remotely relevant to HN? It seems inevitable that all upvote-base forums will eventually converge on /r/mildlyinteresting

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