When a product is poorly designed or conceived, online consumer reviews shoot to the heart of the issues. A couple years ago, we highlighted the rage erupting on Amazon's review pages towards fake-psychologist-hack-author Cooper Lawrence. If Amazon had "trending topics" for its review section, the item listed as a Laptop Steering Wheel Desk would be ...
If you live in England you can get your swine flu diagnosis via the internet or over the phone. They'll even give you a prescription for drugs over the interweb! The web traffic volume was incredible with 2,600 hits / sec. The call center also received 10,000 calls in the first hour. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Flu/Swineflu/DH_103203
The folks in Sweden are apparently all hot, twittered, and bothered! Stockholm's public health department has a launched the Kondom project: handing out 100,000 condoms that are individually numbered. To capture the "user experience", there's a social website where people can write about the tale of their condom... so to speak. ...
This is unintentional health advertising at it's best! In Canada, we have two official languages, english and french. Product packaging must be bilingual. We also have a much-loved Canadian fast-food chain called Harvey's... Their latest tagline in french is "T'as Du Gout" which means You've Got Taste. For ...
James Watt promoted the term 'horsepower' as a marketing ploy for his steam engines. A horsepower is equal to 745.7 watts. It would be difficult however for a horse to sustain that amount of output over a long period of time. For humans, we can produce short bursts of up to 1500 watts using something like this ...
If you ever wondered what happens to you when you're sleeping, DreamRecorder is the perfect app. Its author calls it the first digital dream catcher, but it's not quite as exciting as that. Using your MacBook, you essentially video yourself sleeping. Some nice features detect motion, and even sounds such as snoring. ...
Perhaps you've heard that the nasty plastic anti-theft, anti-child, anti-adult, 'clam shell' packaging we all have come to love to hate will soon be memories of the past. At least for some online stores such as Amazon. Now what will I do with my new Canadian Tire deluxe pro clam shell cutting tool? I don't understand ...
Never trust a guy in a red suit. According to Arlo Guthrie, he's a Break & Enter Dope Fiend! According to Pall Mall, he's a chain smoking addict! Merry Christmas, everybody! Let's get Santa Clause 'cause; Santa Clause has a red suit He's a communist And a beard, and long hair Must be a ...
Too bad he died in 1931. I am forever frustrated by the lightbulb industry. Why doesn't anyone focus on the quality and efficiency of artificial light. There's so much potential for innovation. Incandescent tungsten lamps are energy hogging relics from the last century. Compact fluorescents are evil little dweebs that ...
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