Horseshoe crabs. Unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.
Or just the form of a crab in general! Carcinisation is so weird, but apparently evolution sometimes goes “Let’s just do crab again, that shit was 👌”.
Tetris
You’re welcome
I remember watching a documentary about it, and I think even tetris was based on one of those physical puzzle games with the same pieces, that you had to fit correctly into a square.
Instant Pot.
Apparently they went bankrupt because they built their units too well. Everyone bought one and never needed to buy a replacement.
Same with Saab cars
The Princess Bride.
Inconceivable!
Working analog clock minute hands after the first minute.
Was only a few years ago I realized that the minute hand is entirely superfluous for most applications. You can easily tell what ten minute interval of the day you are in by looking only at the hour hand.
My kitchen must have is an analog clock.
Years of training and using it daily, never wore a watch and don’t give a shit what time it is when I am out of the kitchen.
Batman hitting his target with a batterang.
The first twilight zone. All the followups just lacked the stark yet innocent tone of a someone reasoning with an unjust reality.
I’ve been making my way through the original recently, one-by-one and though some of them are hit and miss, even the misses are doing something amazing cinematically.
Splatoon. The design, the music, the art, the gameplay and the idea was executed so well.