Definitions
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- noun A
designed product , often ahousehold object, distinguished by smooth flowingcurves , bright colours, and an absence of sharp edges.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bruce coined popularized the term blobject to refer to curvilinear, mass-produced products, as part of his Viridian Green movement.
Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005
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I doubt it catches on like "blobject," but you never know.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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And hence I started creating neologisms like 'blobject', 'infosthetics', 'pleasurtronics',
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This chair is definitely an affable zaftig blobject, but very expensive compared to, and not very dissimilar from, the cheap $5 garden chairs made of polypropylene.
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The blobject has enormous spatiotemporal structural complexity, and enormous local variability ” even though it does not have any genuine parts.
Monism Schaffer, Jonathan 2007
whichbe commented on the word blobject
"When Blobjects Rule the Earth" by Bruce Sterling.
June 9, 2008