Meat The iPhone Stylus
Sales of snack sausages are on the increase in South Korea. Apparently they work as a meat stylus for people who don’t want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones – as clearly demonstrated by the drum demo below.
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Out Of The Salty Dog House
Following my recent crisp-trauma incident, the lovely folks at Salty-Dog have salt ‘n’ vindicated themselves by sending me this delightful box of crisps.
Thank you very much!
PS. If any other crisp/cake manufacturers are reading I will happily whore myself for you too. Just so long as you send me at least as much stuff as Salty-Dog.
Salty Dog Grrrrrrr | Crisp Trauma
As those of you that know me personally will be aware – I’m (very) fond of crisps. Today I decided to have some lovely (Salty Dog Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar) posh crisps to accompany a lovely sandwich that I’d procured for myself from a local vendor. Imagine my disappointment when, upon opening said crisps, I was presented with this terrible vision:
11 (small) crisps. That was it. 11.
I think a combination of the excessive air packaging and the hand-cooked oil weight put me off-kilter, I can’t imagine I’d have made this mistake with a regular packet of crisps. I guess it serves me right for selecting posh crisps – what was I thinking? This is without doubt the most disappointing moment of the 2010. I was so looking forward to these (normally lovely) crisps.
Gutted.
On the up side there’s a lesson for us all in this: If you must buy posh crisps (and you will), just be careful and compare the weight of two packets before purchase. That way, I hope, you’ll never have to suffer the crippling mental pain of crisp trauma.
BK | Your Way
Yes it’s simple (arguably child like) but none of that really matters. CP/BK have nailed what most sites on t’web have been wanting to do/won’t do for years.
Simple customised serve.
What’s more they have managed to do it in a way that just underscores a strong brand message and it’s not been ‘executed-the-fuck-out-of’ – because it’s a good idea and it doesn’t need a band-aid.
CP/BK I salute you.
Very, very smart.
Touch Screen Toppings | Pizza Hut iPhone App
Pizza Hut launched an iPhone app that not only enables you to customize your toppings, but also serves up games for you to play while you wait for your delivery.
Nice idea, but can people that eat Pizza Hut afford iPhones?
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Beat Blender
This blender, created by Matti Niinimaki, is a disco machine. The Beat Blender reads fruit embedded with RFID tags that are dropped into it. Hitting different blending speeds (Puree, Liquify, Blend, Grind, etc.) adds different effects and filters to the sounds.
Totally pointless, but I like it.
Pac Can
Cherry flavored Pac Man energy drink.
Wookiee Cookies
And other favorites like Greedo’s Burritos.
Monster Munch
You can imagine my sheer delight as I stumbled upon a bag of new/old Monster Munch at the weekend. If you haven’t been made aware yet, Walkers have decided to return Monster Munch to their original format. Before you start getting all worried, this is in no way just a simple re-brand, these are the real deal original Monster Munch (including a near perfect ’70s ingredients list – minus the mega-nasties obviously). And believe you me, they taste EXACTLY how they used to back in the day. And on top of that, they are totally back to their original size.
Neat. Let’s hope they bring the ad’s back too.
Following the Space Raider sham, this is a bold statement of intent from snack producers world wide.
Sub-flavours: Roast Beef, Pickled Onion and Flamin’ Hot. Nutritional basics: 196 kcal, 10.0g fat, 23.6g carbs, 0.7g fibre, 0.26g sodium per 40g serving.
BaconMaid
We can learn a lot from Wake n’ Bacon.
Just think about it…
The Wake n’ Bacon wakes you up with the delicious scent of bacon. No loud alarm noises, no brutal interruption, just the aroma of delicious hot pork.
When someone explains it to you, like that, you think: I want that.
Wake n’ Bacon is a big idea. A big idea that doesn’t need another idea to sell it – it just needs a clear explanation. When a product is this good, another big idea will act as a diversion, obstructing the simplicity and strength of the Wake n’ Bacon message.
In this case, the product is the idea.
Cheesy Cockers
From Spain.
Jazz Apples
Like jazz mags, only apples.
Rsstroom Reader
Printing news feeds directly on your bog paper. Weirdly it also boasts an integrated “biometric” toilet seat that measures your weight, so it knows who your are and prints you the news that you want (what, like news about pies..?).
Super Nintattoo
Original 1989 Nintendo lick-on Tattoos, sent to me by my good friend Load$. What’s scary (yes even Nintendo can be scary), is that the bubble gum inside looked not a day older than when it fell off the production line, some 20 years ago. There was no air-tight seal and yet the gum hadn’t perished one bit. I was actually fairly tempted to eat it, but fortunately (depending on how you see it), I was warned off.
Would have been pretty ironic if I’d have been killed eating 20 year old Nintendo gum.
Brilliant and thank you.
Mmmmm Broiler Nuggets
Finnair served me this last week. After some investigation I discovered it to be boiled chicken. Obviously I couldn’t eat it because it made me want to sick up.
Mingin’