Why The Long Face, Senseo?

At work we have one of the popular (so I'm told) Philips Senseo coffee makers, and every time I walk by it in the lunch room I feel sorry for it because it looks so sad!

For something that has caffeine filtered through it several times a day I'm not sure why it’s so down. It looks like it’s mourning over something, as if there were a dead kitten sprawled over its cup tray.

Like Marvin the depressed robot in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, maybe it’s contemplating the intricacies of the universe, sorry it’s stuck in such a menial job serving coffee to humans who don’t appreciate it.

I'm not sure why its makers designed it this way. But even its name, Senseo, suggests that it’s prone to emotional breakdown.

The design of a coffee maker should imply a cheerful outlook and appear perky and cute, like an energetic little helper monkey. Not a sullen Emo-bot, which looks like it would spit in your cup when you’re not looking.