Monday, June 29, 2009

Info-mercials

Many new inventions are marketed on paid-for television shows called "info-mericals".

The king of info-mercials is the inventor, Ron Popeil, inventor of Super Glue, Veg-O-Matic, Rotissiere Barbecue and bald-spot hiding hair-spray.

Another is Dyson, an engineer who re-invented vacuum cleaners and other machines.

Search for these guys on http://www.youtube.com/ and see what comes up. Then report back.

  • What did you see?

  • What were you impressed by?

  • What looked like a useless piece of junk? (One gadget can scramble an egg inside the shell.)

  • Would you or did you buy any of their products?

2 comments:

  1. I saw some TV commercial about gadgets by Ron Popeil.The most useless was the Solid Flavor Injector, which can inject nut, vegetable pieces, candy..etc into ham,turkey,roasts,cake..etc.And it looks like a needle.I wouldn't buy anything like these gadget.I think they are useless and I really hate this programmes.

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  2. I watched a info-mercial of pasta maker.
    Even though i have never bought this kind of products, that was interesting to see. I was really amazed by the idea of mixing flour and juice. It looked not so good, however it's good strategy to prove the variety of pasta which we can make with that machine.
    I'm sure taste of this pasta would be not tasty, in that mean this machine can be a piece of junk.

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