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Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend?
I've been enjoying the Will it Blend videos forever. There's something about a labcoat clad crazy man putting things like marbles and soda cans into a blender and after reducing them to powder, warning you not to breathe in the particles. Well today they ask the ultimate question of the latest over-hyped internet sensation
Will the iPhone Blend? Fans of these videos can probably guess the answer... and this story made my morning. I've been waiting for an excuse to link these forever. If you haven't seen these, you're in for a real treat.
I've been breathing that stuff for a while and nothing has ha *THUD*
(he wouldn't just type thud, would he?)
(maybe he was dictating)
(oh shut up)
My kids and I spent nearly an hour looking at all of these last night. Sam kept exclaiming "That's totally awesome!" Even four year-old Emma enjoyed the blending of the Barbies.
I assume the whole thing is a viral marketing deal for the brand of blender, but it's so beautifully done. My wife and I decided that it was pretty obviously marketing towards men. Women might enjoy chopping up a rake or two, but men's eyes grow wide and they get a funny grin whenever you start tossing in glow sticks, marbles, iPhones, and other fun things.
The other thing of note is that he probably should have been wearing a respirator for some of these tricks. The marbles in particular were very nasty. Breathing in small amounts of glass smoke is incredibly bad for your lungs. That's why they banned asbestos, after all.
That's the entire point. It's supposed to be an advertisement. But it's a lot better than most of the adverts you see on tv these days.
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It's not "like an advertisement", it's nothing BUT an advertisement. And it's sure nice to see a company advertising it's products in a funny, entertaining way that also nicely shows off the products' capabilities, without fluff.
Assuming this is real, he wasn't just joking at the end.
Of course it's an advertisement! But hardly a "waste" of a good product -- links on digg, slashdot, and all the mac sites to boot for under a grand is the cheapest ad campaign ever.
If you're looking for wasteful advertising, try the Olympics.
There was one where they were about to try a crowbar, then took it out and replaced it with something else. I didn't watch them with sound so I don't know why they did that, but it seemed pretty obvious the crowbar wasn't going to blend. Everything else went in about 30 seconds though!
It's pieces of the iPhone's evil, black heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI
Just in case the server 'blends'...
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Sure the innovative and groundbreaking iPhone will change the face of blending forever. Never before could you blend a full featured implementation of Apple's award winning Safari browser.
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The real spoiler is in the slow motion bit. Listen closely & you can distinctly hear the iphone death cry 'Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan'.
iPhone. The Shatner of cell phones.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Also, it's like an advertisement.
I'm amazed by how many people can't recognize a blatant advertisement when it's staring them in the face. It's not "like" an advertisement, it *is* an advertisement.
This guy's the limit!
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Do you know I watched this on my Windows Mobile phone and seems to have broken it the video just keeps looping over and over I'm not certain but I think the "happy" midi tune plays every now and again
Go look at eBay item number 170129995323. You get the iPhone remnants, a blender, a DVD, and an autographed T-shirt. Not bad, if you're in the market for a blender or are into pulverized electronics.
As well as being fun, its an amazing ad for the company, everything they but into their blenders ends up as toxic dust!!!
Yes, because I really want my spaghetti sauce to become toxic dust. I think I'll take a blender that doesn't make everything toxic.
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No, it just spews a black cloud of overrated whenever the marketing hype wire in the iphone is severed.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
I felt a great disturbance in the intertubes, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
After recently purchasing a $85 blender that bit the dust on a box of frozen strawberries, this is just the kind of advertising I appreciate right now.
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Many moons ago I worked at a sawmill, the wood chipper would get blocked on a regular basis and required a crowbar to unblock it. I was not the first person to try and blend the crowbar. These (accidental) experiments demonstrated that crowbars don't blend easily, but you can slice the end off one if you have several tons of flywheel behind the blade.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Yeah, maybe a shameless plug, but it is the best iPhone review I have seen so far.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
As someone who work at an ad agency, let me say, I would be freaking thrilled to come up with an idea half this good. Not only do these clips entertain the viewers, they also highlight what's excellent about the product being sold. Compare that to something like the Subservient Chicken, which is entertaining but really says nothing about Burger King's product.
I hope Blendtec sticks with whatever agency/marketing intern came up with this concept. It's solid gold.
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"We found the Holy Grail"
it blends
"Cure for cancer"
blend it
"Kids, in this cage is the last living mouse lemur on Earth."
where's that outlet?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Can they blend one of their own blenders? Wow, meta headrush.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Amazingly, the dust still had to be sent to Apple to get the battery out.
It's cheaper than the standard backlighting, easier on your battery, environmentally friendly, and is super quiet (except for the occasional barely-discernible "mew!" at startup). Now if it weren't for all those damned moralists out there, I could have one of those 25" LCD's that're augmented by kitten ash that the State Department refuses to import! Sure, color calibration is a bitch (cats are somewhat color-blind), but once it's all set up, you get a peaceful soft glow that is very easy on the wattage.
(seriously though - I think it's prolly the battery contents, which could be reacting with either a metal or some other subtstance in the iPhone's makeup.).
(...and yes, I own and use a Mac @ home).
(...and yes, I have two cats living @ home with me. Whether they fear me or I fear them - I leave up to you to decide).
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
And in case the PP didn't get it, the iphone ends up as toxic dust because it is made of toxic dry materials. If you just put a piece of wood in, you'd end up with ordinary (not toxic) dust, and if you put spaghetti sauce in you won't end up with any kind of dust unless you use a lot less water than normal people do.
We've secretly replaced Slashdot with new Folgers Crystals - let's see if it notices.
Fun? I was, actually, rather revolted... It always saddens me, when things break irreparably. I once felt depressed for a week after accidentally dropping an old hard-drive on the floor — it worked before, but broke due to my sloppiness...
To do this sort of thing on purpose, with a shiny, new (and beautiful!) piece of high-tech electronics is a sin. To enjoy watching it is perverse, in my humble opinion...
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