Hula chair ~ chuckles await
Hours on planes will make you go crazy. Luckily, there’s the great American flying pastime of selecting one item from each page of the Skymall catalog that you would buy for yourself or a friend. My shining choice above all others from my trip yesterday is most certainly this here Hula Chair:
The version that I [...]
Make-A-Wish ~ Someday I’ll bring my kids here
I had the privilege of going with my nieces and nephew on their first trip to the ocean, and the experience left little doubt as to why our love of the oceans pervades so many areas of our lives. It’s often the first memory many of us have of really feeling so overwhelmed by existence, [...]
‘World’s remotest island’ to get high-tech health care assistance from IBM and Beacon Equity
You may never have heard of Tristan da Cunha, and it is for that reason that you can probably imagine that they don’t have access to the very best medical care in the world. Now, however, what is known as the ‘world’s remotest island,’ located over 1,600 miles southwest of Cape Town, is getting pro [...]
Zrii ~ for the low, low price of $179 per gallon!
After the Zrii post, I read some information online about The Chopra Center’s endorsement of the amalaki-based drink out of Utah. Zrii and its independent agents are marketing this endorsement as huge because Deepak Chopra’s Center has supposedly never endorsed a third-party product.
Well, it’s not hard to understand why they might endorse this product when [...]
Remington man shavers ~ a decades-long quest for hairless dudes to fill our beaches
In the post on the Dove "Onslaught" commercial, I brought up that guys as well as girls are being manipulated more and more with images of perfect people in perfect places. The post reminded me of some Remington personal shaver ads. Specifically, I remembered the webpage shedmycoat.com where you can use one of two Remington [...]
Selling sleep ~ Do these mattresses float?
How can a company that sells $5,000+ mattresses really get away with having an ad like this one in Dwell’s November issue:
This ad is obviously supposed to mean that sleeping on this very expensive Hästens mattress is going to take you away to lakeside restfulness. Yawn. I’m falling asleep now without ever having [...]
Body cooling is bringing heart attack victims back to life ~ and putting them back on their sailboats
If you haven’t heard about life-saving, body cooling for heart attacks and other injuries, such as spinal cord injuries, be sure to check out this article from WCO.com. Here’s a great quote:
“After being dead for a few minutes back in May, Bill along with Monica are now back to enjoying their boating life, with [...]
Alooha-ready skin ~ Egyptian Magic
Not since seeing the Alooha sandwich delivery scooter in Cairo in 2005 have I been so excited about an Egyptian product advertising itself. Well, by way of Buzzfeed, I noticed this nice little product called Egyptian Magic. If you click there to go to their official website, you’ll notice this little wonder of an image:
This [...]
Medicine marketers ~ apply directly to the brain
People are surprised that HeadOn is selling EXTREMELY WELL (up 234% according to this temporarily-available article) in spite of its annoying “Apply directly to the forehead” commercials. The company did soften, and multiply in chorus, the voices on the repetitive tag line, but the ad still seems to work. Why?
There is no gastrointestinal distress in paradise ~ with Dannon Activia yogurt
Following along with the no-herpes-in-paradise post, here’s one for Dannon’s Activia, which promises no constipation either:
Click on the still and it will take you to the full commercial on their website activia.com.
I had some strange feeling when I heard the name of the bacteria “Bifidus regularis” that maybe that isn’t the real scientific name of [...]
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