Clever cake pan

Call me a nerd, but I get excited when companies take a thoughtful approach to redesigning and improving upon everyday products, especially when they do away with minor flaws and annoyances. Sometimes the tweaks are just for fun, as in the case of my pink sparkly spatula,* and other times they are borderline brilliant, like the Beater Blade or the zigzaggy brownie pan that everybody loves.

Well, fellow culinary design nerds, behold the Ding3000 cake pan.

Isn't this smart? It makes it easy to address all the strange size-related sensitivities, proclivities and dark, smouldering desires of your guests. As long as their darkest desires are of the devil's food variety, that is. And the resulting cake is kind of architectural and strangely beautiful in its multi-leveled state. You can buy one here or here. Yes, yes, I KNOW that you can just use a knife and cut different size pieces for each person according to their desires as has been done since time immemorial, but this is still a neat idea, don't you think?



*I know that buying stuff, at least for me, leads only to the most fleeting, false sense of happiness or satisfaction, which is then followed by some delicious combination of guilt, despair, boredom, and inevitably a new desire for something else, but my stupid pink spatula continues to spark a tiny zing of cheeriness in me every time I use it, as does my Fire-King jadeite pie plate. Who knows why?