blog.wired.com— Some gadgets change the world. Others don't. These ones, however, are very effective at one thing in particular: teleporting money out of customers' pockets.
Nov 18, 2007View in Crawl 4
Very little being sold to the audiophile community is a direct "joke". Just look to the Randi Pear Audio threads on Digg, people actually DEFENDED snake oil in those threads.
"Overpriced? Yes, but at least it's not snake oil: It's an actual, working, volume knob. It's not like they're promising that Magical Ionic Goodness will make your stereo sound better, or something."Uh, they're promising that their wooden volume knob will make your system sound 10,000$ better.
Regardless, these people are f**king retards for not understanding that topical applications of asprin are still less effective than simply swallowing the pills.
aduzikNov 20, 2007
PT Barnum was right. There's a sucker born every minute. I just need to figure out a new, exciting way of exploiting those suckers.
aduzikNov 20, 2007
But Bob is so much happier. All the neighbors can tell he's boning his wife heck, probably almost once a week now.
Closed AccountNov 20, 2007
Very little being sold to the audiophile community is a direct "joke". Just look to the Randi Pear Audio threads on Digg, people actually DEFENDED snake oil in those threads.
Closed AccountNov 20, 2007
"Overpriced? Yes, but at least it's not snake oil: It's an actual, working, volume knob. It's not like they're promising that Magical Ionic Goodness will make your stereo sound better, or something."Uh, they're promising that their wooden volume knob will make your system sound 10,000$ better.
Closed AccountNov 20, 2007
Regardless, these people are f**king retards for not understanding that topical applications of asprin are still less effective than simply swallowing the pills.
ringzinMar 14, 2008
One of the more frightening quack devices is the EPFX - The Seattle Times did an expose on the EPFX. Woolly headed new-agers love this stuff!