Objects In The Rear-View Mirror May Appear Better Designed Than They Are

The concept behind the Monitor Rear-View Mirror is a very simple one. It is a small, convex mirror on a hemisphere with a chunk taken out of it so the corner of your monitor can fit in, and comes with two adhesive-backed Velcro pads so that it can be attached and detached from your monitor with all the ease of doing up a three year old's trainers. Now, it's not the most singularly useful product, but when it's sitting up there, it gets the job done. You get a pleasantly wide view of whatever room you happen to be in, and all is right with the world. But there's one small design flaw, and it's one that seems so contrived as to make me think it might just be intentional. Velcro, let's face it, is often pretty poor at holding stuff together under any kind of force. But this product's velcro is of a really quite astoundingly high quality. It's certainly far stronger than it needs to be to hold the slight weight of the mirror to your screen. In fact, it's far stronger than the adhesive on the back of the pads as well, which really makes the whole velcro system seem a little pointless. I can only assume that Team Velcro and Team Glue were engaged in a fierce rivalry and lost sight of the overall goal of the product in their selfish drive to outdo the opposition's feeble attempts at attaching junk to other junk. And that's a sad thing indeed.