You Tube Video Causes Self-Stirring Cup Fad
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What is it about seeing some regular people enjoying a product that makes people want to purchase it? Do people just really need a $30 self-stirring cup, but didn't know it existed? Will this cause a teaspoon glut? Lately, we noticed advertisers trying to replicate "You Tube" or "blog" style videos in their commercials... but it's just not the same, is it? —MEGHANN MARCO
Self-Stirring Mug [Hammacher Schlemmer]
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The sound that cup makes is creepy.
What is it about seeing some regular people enjoying a product that makes people want to purchase it?
This is exactly what advertisers have forgotten. Instead of demonstrating the product and why we should buy it, we get funny skits and arthouse short films that have nothing to do with the beer/car/self-stirring cup being advertised.
How lazy do you have to be to need a self-stirring cup? What next, pre-chewed food?
I'm done reading this page. Can someone please invent a self-clicking mouse so I can get on with my life?
Actually, I could see this being very handy for when you're drinking hot chocolate and the cocoa powder keeps clumping up at the bottom of the cup.
Yes, I'm lazy, why do you ask?
Too bad they are out of them. I drew my husband's cousin in our family $30 limit gift grab, 40 year old male lawyer who has everything. This would have been perfect just for the novelty of it.
Watching people enjoy the product was apparently the key to the success of the Foreman Grill. When it was first being sold on a home shopping channel, sales were tepid until George (in the background and not really thinking about it) just plucked a hamburger off of the grill and started eating it. The phone banks went nuts and a rehash of the old sandwich maker became a kitchen must-have. (Or so the story goes in Salton's history of the grill.)
Did I mention that I love my Foreman Grill?
People are really becoming lazy aren't they?
If it's possible to get rich by selling a pet rock, imagine the success of a mildly usefull, yet gimmicky product!
You could just get one of those chem lab thingies that does basically exactly the same thing as this cup, with the little spinner magnet and the stage you set the beaker on to make it spin.
Or go up to the attic and find an old record player or SpinArt turntable. :-)
I have one of these, but not from overpriced Hammacher Schlemmer that place is a rip off. You can get them for 9.99 with a cow logo. Here http://www.simplybovine.com/products/moomixer.php
I love mine, I drink chocolate milk every day and this cup really makes a good stirred cup, they now have a jumbo sized one for 14.99 which I am sure I will pick up soon.
I have one of these. But it is not from over priced hammachaler snachalllyourcasher It's called the moo mixer. It wokrs well and is only 9.99. They have a jumbo one out now for 14.99. http://www.simplybovine.com/products/moomixer.php
Simple minds, simple pleasures. What was so funny to the guy in the video?
I would say the stainless steel-looking mug would cost more than the cow one since it looks like a regular mug. The cow one doesn't with the separate handle. It looks more like a mini-blender.
What was so funny to the guy in the video?
A far fetched sexual reference maybe. And the sound. The sound is funny.
Dude, that thing is awesome! Imagine drinking your cocoa while it's still stirring!!
Like the guy living in his Nissan for 7 days? I hate that guy.
He's not the first person to live in a car. It's called HOMELESSNESS.