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So why couldn't you buy a similar device that's not rated for medical use off the internet? Last time this question came up on slashdot, I stated something along the lines of, it should be really cheap, especially with bluetooth headsets becoming so fashionable/acceptable (not that I personally think they look good, but you won't get too many weird looks walking around with a bluetooth earpiece) to produce a functional hearing aid for a good price. A quick google search came up with this result. Looks like a bluetooth earpiece, costs $14.95. I'm sure there's room for a whole range of products at various prices.

But does it beat THIS!?.

As long as your not using that ah... well .. "interesting" flash light that you have to shake to light up. . . Seen here the hand in the middle of the picture says it all. . . Just say no! What kind of person thinks of this?

If you stack two atoms (only one contacting the surface), how does the force required change? Three? More?
If you chain two atoms (both touching the surface), how does the force change? Three? More?

It would be really interesting to see if applying force in "the right spot" could make moving things around much easier.....think "Moving Men" (http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/Movingmen.html/ but at an atomic scale.

Layne

I prefer the ThighMaster. The price is more within my range, and the look on peoples' faces when they see me bouncing up and down at my desk is priceless.

I was thinking of buying one of these:

http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/Scremer_Alarm .html

It's already available: Bass Hero!

Oh, you meant the other kind. Whoops.

What is that 6.5 million based on? Is that the retail price of the product normally?

I'm guessing that it's the "value" of the merchandise, as reported by the companies who made it.

As I understand it, companies over-inflate their products' value so it looks like they're giving you a great discount. That's why the Ronco Six Star Plus Cutlery Set has an $850 value but is yours for only $39.95 (plus Shipping and Handling), and why all that crap they had on Wheel of Fortune cost so much.

So then I guess you all have forgotten about Topsy-Tail (http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/topsy_tail.h tml?gid=) huh?

Just like how these guys claim their product uses "refractive lens technology" as opposed to the other kind? (AFAIK a 'reflective lens' is called a mirror, regardless of its curvature).

Have they incorporated one of those Popeil Pocket Fisherman gadgets too?

I honestly can't remember when the French produced any earth-shaking products. The last, and perhaps only time I saw a "made in france" label in recent memory was on the bottom of a disposable lighter. You hold the biggest bike race in the world, but you can't even make bike parts that hold together, your cars suck, and your airplanes are cheap, government subsidized copies of Boeing airplanes. All you can produce is market-niche food. And it is YOU who should be suing US for making better wine and calling it "merlot" or "champagne"

Concorde, neutron bombs, space rockets, we've built it all. Airbus easily builds better aircraft than Boeing. If it's a copy just because it has wings and jet engines... well. And don't tell me our cars suck when you can't build good cars yourselves.

Also I don't know what's worse. Producing first class food or producing useless crap like "pet rocks" or this stuff? You Americans really like crap, don't you?

Ideal night for a Frenchman: sit around the dinner table and complain about Americans, wishing you were us.

Making fun of Americans can be entertaining now and then. I laughed my ass off with a few friends when we saw the POWs Saddam had made and how fucking scared those pathetic "heroes" were. However, no one here wishes to be you. No way I'd leave this beautiful country and Paris, the city where I live, all the culture that has grown on me, to live in a land of fat, burger munching, shallow mindless zombies. No way.

Robosweep to the rescue!

It's a chain. There's also a website, but it's unclear whether they're the same company. And yes, they carry the RoboSweep.

It's a chain. There's also a website, but it's unclear whether they're the same company. And yes, they carry the RoboSweep.

...Designer Massimo Zanigni has announced a way to use his clothing to mop up the floor. With an instruction manual of only seventeen words, it's sure to offer stiff competition to complicated, difficult-to-use products such as the Platinum PVA Mop, which, while currently the top-selling mop for cleanup purposes, and although it radically outperforms Massimo Zanigni rags, comes with a thirty-five page instruction manual, including several paragraphs of legalese.