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Posts from ‘November, 2009’

Stupidest Marketing Ploy Ever, But Wait…

Yesterday, I saw what I thought was the stupidest marketing ploy ever. It was for Dial Magnetic, Dial’s new body wash that uses pheromones:

Here’s the message as I see it. “Use this stuff and your wife/girlfriend won’t be able keep her hands off you.”
Now, here’s my issue. No guy is going to buy a body [...]

GadgetFest ‘09

Today, I went to GadgetFest, a small technology expo sponsored by a local technology group and held at my work, Qualcomm. It was a bit of a letdown. It sort of reminded me of going to a really small science fiction con, where you walk around the whole place in 20 minutes, and [...]