{"id":41501,"date":"2012-03-13T10:09:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=41501"},"modified":"2015-10-31T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T15:03:12","slug":"10-products-that-take-the-fun-out-of-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/10-products-that-take-the-fun-out-of-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Products that Take the Fun Out of Everyday Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/montage2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"montage\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41505 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/montage2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/montage2-214x300.jpg 214w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/700;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0pt 0pt; float: left;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5pt 5pt; float: left;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share<\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 2px 0pt 0pt; float: left;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Technology tends to make our lives easier and better.\u00a0 What would life be like if we had to wash our own dishes and clothes by hand like damn savages?\u00a0 Are we going to give up the Internet and go back to Victoria&#8217;s Secret catalogs and lingerie ads?\u00a0 What would we do without the ability to instantly vaporize entire city blocks?\u00a0 But every once in a while, and frequently on the shelves of convenience stores with \u201cAs Seen on TV\u201d, earnest attempts to make life easier end up taking all the fun and thrill out of things.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n<!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Wearable Doghouse<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wearabledoghouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wearabledoghouse\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41512 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wearabledoghouse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wearabledoghouse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wearabledoghouse-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/500;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Wearable-Dog-House.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nNot technically a product, but a patent that someone actually devoted a period of their rapidly diminishing time here on Earth writing up and submitting to the patent office with the earnest belief that people might actually buy it with real money.\u00a0 The device is designed to carry your dog on long walks so you don&#8217;t look like a complete tool by carrying it in your purse.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n<b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> Actually Walking Your Dog\u00a0<br \/>\nLast time scientists checked, most dogs were in possession of four legs and <a href=\"http:\/\/29.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lxr26bPhd71r48vbno1_500.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially awesome dogs<\/a> were perfectly capable of getting around on three.\u00a0 Few things are better than taking your dog for a walk\u00a0on a brisk morning, and using the dog as an excuse to start conversations with cute girls.\u00a0 But instead of participating in these enjoyable things, the wearable doghouse requires you to strap what appears to be an oversized birdhouse to your chest, and shove your obviously terrified dog in there.\u00a0 Then you walk proudly around the neighborhood and try not to let your nipples chafe.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Tiddybear<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiddy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"tiddy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41511 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiddy.png 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiddy-300x221.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/369;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_irrqyL0tyck\/S7J8NkE4fXI\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/A-pda0LO1ds\/s1600\/tidybear.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIs your shoulder strap digging into your shoulder?\u00a0 Are you a woman who dislikes how a seat belt uncomfortably slides against your breasts?\u00a0 Are you a man who doesn&#8217;t mind being degraded by wearing a brightly-colored teddy bear strapped across your chest?\u00a0 Well congratulations, the product you never asked for is here in the form of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tiddybearcomfortstrap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiddybear<\/a>, an adorable little bear that allows you to adjust your seatbelt to a comfortable position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> Boobs and Teddy Bears\u00a0<br \/>\nIf you have ever been a teenager (odds are you have), one of the few reliefs from the insane, confusing hormone-fueled miasma that is adolescent sexuality are the simple things.\u00a0 One of which is that lovely phenomenon that happens when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyshit.com\/forum\/index.php?t=getfile&#038;id=105471&#038;private=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">girl wears a seatbelt<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Tiddybear is there to ruin what little joy men are able to derive from the world.\u00a0 On top of that, once the owner actually speaks the word \u201cTiddybear\u201d every positive connotation you once had with perfectly adorable teddy bears is spoiled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Self-Spinning Bottle<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/selfspinning.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"selfspinning\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41509 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/selfspinning.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/selfspinning-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/selfspinning-297x300.jpg 297w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/504;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/gallery\/data_files\/1\/4\/6\/spin-el.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nPlaying spin the bottle was one of many methods invented ages ago as a way for hormonal adolescents to fool around while still pretending it was all just innocent fun.\u00a0 The childlike glee and thrill of kissing that girl across the circle you&#8217;ve had a crush on since 3rd grade simply cannot be matched by playing video games or rock-em-sock-em robots or listening to rap music or&#8230;whatever.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> Spinning the Bottle\u00a0<br \/>\nThe <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/electric-spin-the-bottle-for-those-too-good-to-spin-a-real-bottle-177414\/\">Electric Spinning Bottle<\/a> is the answer to an unwhispered prayer of &#8220;how can we associate makeouts more with boring board games we play with our parents?&#8221;.\u00a0 No longer is spin the bottle a conspiratorial affair that ends a night of drinking too much Mountain Dew and vodka you stole from the liquor cabinet.\u00a0 Not only do you have to prepare in advance to use this particular fun-killing device, but when the topic of playing spin the bottle is first broached, whipping out this game is probably the most guaranteed method generating weird looks and ensuring that spin the bottle doesn&#8217;t actually take place.\u00a0 \u00a0\u2028\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Steering Wheel Desk<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/steeringwheelkeyboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"steeringwheelkeyboard\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41510 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/steeringwheelkeyboard.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/steeringwheelkeyboard-300x206.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/344;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekologie.com\/2011\/12\/09\/steering-wheel-desk-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nMorning commutes can be quite a hassle.\u00a0 Unless you&#8217;re one of those  organized type-A&#8217;s that exist only in sitcoms (usually paired with a slovenly deadbeat), your car is likely your living room, kitchen and bedroom combined into one.\u00a0 Who hasn&#8217;t eaten breakfast, applied makeup, texted, dressed, or finished up that last bit of work in the car before arriving at the office?\u00a0 Fortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AutoExec-WM-01-Wheelmate-Steering-Wheel\/dp\/B000IZGIA8\/ref=pd_sbs_gro_16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steering Wheel Desk<\/a> is here to help, allowing you to comfortably serve up your Egg McMuffin in style without having to share valuable lap space with your coffee, half-donned pants, and cellphone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> The Visceral Thrill of the Morning Commute\u00a0<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s face it: mornings suck and your brain is not ready to get up and think clearly until well past noon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As many of us have figured out, the only way to get moving in the morning is sheer, blood-curdling panic.\u00a0 That is why we set our alarms to 20 minutes before 9am, and it&#8217;s why we perform a circus act in the car trying not to scald our groin with coffee while answering the boss&#8217;s insistent texts.\u00a0 The Steering Wheel Desk is a false sense of security that takes away the final moment in our lives where we experience excitement, before sitting in a dimly-lit office for eight hours.\u00a0It&#8217;s also a death trap for those who don&#8217;t understand that it&#8217;s actually meant to be used in park, and not during your morning commute &#8212; or any other kind of commute &#8212; at all.<\/p>\n<h2>The Dayclock<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dayclock.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dayclock\" width=\"500\" height=\"514\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41502 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dayclock.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dayclock-291x300.jpg 291w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/514;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nicoleonthenet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dayclock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIf other clocks are just a bit too specific for your tastes, consider purchasing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0019F9ITE\/ref=asc_df_B0019F9ITE1890094?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;tag=hyprod-20&#038;linkCode=asn&#038;creative=395093&#038;creativeASIN=B0019F9ITE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">day clock<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only able to tell you which day of the week it is.\u00a0 No time, no date, just whether it&#8217;s a day for drinking or a day for work (with possible drinking). Who needs the oppressive notion of hours, minutes and seconds that other clocks can tell you? Real men tell time by the shadow the sun casts on their illustrious mustaches (a tasteful pocketwatch is an acceptable substitute).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> The Vertiginous Feeling of Not Knowing What Day it is.\u00a0<br \/>\nBecause it&#8217;s usually assumed that you know which day of the week it is, this fact is rarely close at hand.\u00a0 Often your watch, your alarm clocks and even the clock on your computer won&#8217;t give you any information as to whether it&#8217;s a Wednesday or a Sunday.\u00a0 Remember Summer break?\u00a0 Remember forgetting entirely what day of the week it was because you were doing nothing but riding your wagon down hills and climbing trees?\u00a0 Remember that amazing bender you had in Mexico during your week off?\u00a0 Okay you likely don&#8217;t remember much of the latter, but the point is, at certain times we want to completely free ourselves from the obligations inherent in time.\u00a0 You still need to know the time, obviously, so you know what time the liquor stores open and close, but whether it&#8217;s a Monday or a Friday is irrelevant\u2014and that is beautiful.\u00a0 Those moments are rare bastions of happiness, and the Day Clock will ruin them all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Reserve a Spot in Heaven<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/reserveaspot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"reserveaspot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41507 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/reserveaspot.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/reserveaspot-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/375;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doobybrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/kit_1_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nAre you worried that you might be spending too much time in Church and too little time raping and pillaging?\u00a0Now, for a paltry $14.95, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/reserveaspotinheaven.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reserve a spot in heaven<\/a> and get back to all your whoring and debauchery.\u00a0 As satisfied customer \u201cRobert\u201d put it on their site:<br \/>\n \u201cSeriously, a pizza pie costs more.\u00a0 For a slice of heaven you just can&#8217;t go wrong with this offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Robert!\u00a0 I was worried that all the coveting I was doing was going to bar me from passing through the Pearly Gates, but now that I have my Heaven Travel Kit I can kick orphans and puppies to my heart&#8217;s content. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b>Sin.\u00a0 Filthy, Filthy, Beautiful Sin.\u00a0<br \/>\nPart of the thrill of doing something risque is that it&#8217;s not condoned.\u00a0 Nothing makes sex and drugs uncool quite like knowing that your parents did it and don&#8217;t really have a problem with some marijuana and mutually consensual sex with protection.\u00a0 The &#8220;Reserve a Spot in Heaven&#8221; is like Jesus taking you down to the corner store, buying you some condoms, and giving you a very grave talk about the risks you&#8217;re taking before slapping you on the back and saying \u201cGo get &#8217;em champ!\u201d\u00a0 Somehow knowing there will be no negative consequences for your actions in the long run makes them terminally uncool.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(These certificates are actually presented tongue-in-cheek as a gag gift.\u00a0 The same company also sells reserved spots in hell.\u00a0 However, they stand adamantly by their 100% Satisfaction Guarantee)\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Season Shot<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/seasonshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"seasonshot\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41508 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/seasonshot.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/seasonshot-300x166.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/278;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crestock.com\/uploads\/blog\/2008\/Christmasgadgets\/SeasonShot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nAnyone who&#8217;s ever been bird hunting knows that there&#8217;s one small problem with preparing the animal for dinner later: all those time pieces of lead you just filled it with.\u00a0 Cleaning the bird becomes a laborious process of picking them out one by one, and eating the bird is a dangerous exercise in dental fortitude.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seasonshot.com\/About.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Season Shot<\/a> solves all of these problems, and more!\u00a0 Not only does it effectively kill birds dead (an important criteria for ammunition), the pellets dissolve during cooking and release a mix of seasoning to the meat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> Killing Small Animals\u00a0<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s be honest, part of the thrill of the hunt is the almost guilty, gleeful joy that comes from taking a living creature&#8217;s life.\u00a0 While Season Shot does this effectively, it seems to defeat the purpose of hunting in the first place.\u00a0 If there were a laser gun that plucked birds from the sky, and deposited them fully cooked and cleaned on your kitchen table, nobody would ever use it because it&#8217;s just cheating.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWe spend every moment of our lives indirectly taking lives through the sweatshop-made clothes we wear or the politicians we vote for that start wars on the other side of the globe.\u00a0 Season Shot is trying to take away the marvelous simplicity by which we&#8217;ve been murdering fowl for millennia.\u00a0 Though if they made a lower-grade table top version that would be awesome because I&#8217;ve been having some trouble seasoning my turkey inside and our without some sort of high-velocity spice grinder.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Electronic Cigarettes<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ecig.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ecig\" width=\"500\" height=\"214\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41503 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ecig.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ecig-300x128.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/214;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electroniccigaretteweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/electronic_cigarette_diagram.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u2028\u00a0<br \/>\nThese little devices have been growing in popularity as the price of cigarettes has ballooned into the \u201cYour firstborn and also a limb\u201d price range.\u00a0 And when there are virtually no public places to smoke anymore the <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_cigarette\u201d>E-Cigarette&#8217;s<\/a> odorless vapor is a nice substitute.\u00a0 Plus there&#8217;s the added benefit that the E-Cig doesn&#8217;t contain nearly as many carcinogenic toxins as your typical cigarette, so you can get your nicotine fix without worrying about cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> Smoking is Cool\u00a0<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s not mince words here: smoking is cool.\u00a0 We all know it&#8217;s terrible for you and everyone around you, but it&#8217;s cool.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool in the way that riding in an outlaw biker gang is cool, it&#8217;s so obviously dangerous that clearly only the toughest, most badass bats out of hell can take it.\u00a0 Smoking is cool because it is dangerous and damaging.\u00a0 Electronic cigarettes are like the non-alcoholic beer of tobacco, all you&#8217;re getting is a part of the sensation and none of the thrill.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Fish Catching Themselves<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fishcatchingthemselves.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fishcatchingthemselves\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41504 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fishcatchingthemselves.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fishcatchingthemselves-300x249.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/416;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularwealth.com\/images\/fish-jumping.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nOne of the peskiest things about fish is that it&#8217;s hard for us to outright mass murder them like cows or pigs or carrier pigeons.\u00a0 It&#8217;s even tough to use a gun on them as they&#8217;re always surrounding themselves with their hoighty-toighty water.\u00a0 We literally have to outsmart the fish in order to eat them, and it&#8217;s quite galling for humans to get outsmarted from something we diverged from evolutionarily a billion years ago.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why scientists have been carefully grooming new breeds of fish to respond to specialized signals and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-546328\/Call-Pavlovs-fish-Scientists-train-sea-bass-catch-swimming-net.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">throw themselves into waiting nets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> Fishing\u00a0<br \/>\nFirst off, fishing is one of the greatest excuses for doing nothing and drinking a bunch of beer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the oldest forms of hunting that is still regularly practiced even by people who would never pick up a gun or kill Bambi.\u00a0 To be fair, researchers are working on this method only as a way to breed populations that can be easily fed, cataloged and, in the case of fish farms, harvested.\u00a0 But how long is it before we have designer fish all over our lakes and reservoirs, responding to a specially-tuned signal instead of a handcrafted lure?\u00a0 Catching a wild fish is a triumph of skill and will, and perhaps blind luck while you&#8217;re napping off a couple of beers of the shore.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so universally appealing.\u00a0 Take that away and all you basically have left is a pre-cooked meal just waiting for you to press a button and summon it to your table.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Motorized Ice Cream Cone<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/motorized.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"motorized\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41506 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/motorized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/motorized-300x195.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/325;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekalerts.com\/u\/Motorized-Ice-Cream-Cone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no more fundamental image of childhood innocence and happiness than a child gleefully licking away at an ice cream cone on a hot summer day.\u00a0 A child holding a bright red balloon is a close second.\u00a0 To this innocence has been added a new contender: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perpetualkid.com\/motorized-ice-cream-cone.aspx?utm_source=googlebase&#038;utm_medium=cse&#038;utm_content=KCHN-0450-XX&#038;utm_campaign=googlebasecse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the motorized cone<\/a>.\u00a0 With this beauty, you need only stick out your tongue and press a button, and the machine takes care of the tiresome licking for you, by lightly spinning the scoop of ice cream.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun it Kills:<\/b> The Joy of Eating Ice Cream\u00a0<br \/>\nEating ice cream from a cone isn&#8217;t something we do so that we can deliver ice cream efficiently to our taste buds and stomachs\u2014it&#8217;s an experience all of its own.\u00a0 Fighting the inevitable melting with furious abandon.\u00a0 Plugging leaks in the cone by devouring the cone and surrounding ice cream.\u00a0 Walking around on a hot summer afternoon carrying a super-chilled hunk of cream, sugar and ice on top of what is basically a sugar cookie.\u00a0 Ice cream in bowls is for joyless scrubs.\u00a0 Ice cream that serves itself to you from a bowl is for obese joyless scrubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Share Technology tends to make our lives easier and better.\u00a0 What would life be like if we had to wash our own dishes and clothes by hand like damn savages?\u00a0 Are we going to give up the Internet and go back to Victoria&#8217;s Secret catalogs and lingerie ads?\u00a0 What would we do without the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":41505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[7259,7295,7296,8394,6761,5305],"class_list":{"0":"post-41501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-as-seen-on-tv","9":"tag-fun","10":"tag-life","11":"tag-marketing","12":"tag-products-2","13":"tag-toparticles"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}