These Ignition Button Covers for Cars Will Surely Fill the Hole in Your Life

Occasionally in order to detect a disease, doctors must look for the presence of the antibodies our systems produce in response to the disease.

That reminds me of this category of objects. In this case, the disease is that we live in an increasingly unsatisfying digital world, when people were born to use tools and manipulate physical objects. The antibodies in this case are these:

What is that, you ask? It’s a flip cover for the ignition button on your car.

You install it, and now you have to flip the cover up in order to start your car. Why? Because, according to one manufacturer:

Another gives you two reasons why you need this:

Re: That caption on the left, this is why copy editors are important. Re: That image on the right—whose car is this, Wolverine’s?

Here’s a particularly brilliant design, where you can still push the button without having to lift the cover since there’s a hole in it. And what a great application for carbon fiber.

Some are sold with branding that lets you co-opt a comic book character’s logo to reinforce your political identity.

Or just co-opt a comic book character’s logo.

Assume that that actually was the Batmobile—you can see Alfred rolling his eyes after being asked to install this.