Monday, January 7, 2008

Do We Want the Alarm Clock to Do It All, Though?


Thanks to Tyler over at Marginal Revolution for making me aware of this.
I'm a ThinkGeek enthusiast. My friend Joseph turned me on to ThinkGeek products and as other neophiles out there I have not looked back since.
Their digital products like watches are a nice fusion of precision and aesthetically pleasing styles and I am a regular customer.
Having said this, I was thoroughly amused by the sentence Tyler Cowen featured in his blog today about a ThinkGeek alarm clock. It says:

[It] connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze!

Bravo, Tyler, bravo!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This takes the cake, B! Sentence of the month, I say.
~D

Anonymous said...

And to think that I almost ordered this.....

B.R. said...

Crystal:
It's a product that ThinkGeek lists on the actual product page. They don't include cheeky, stock option commentaries, of course.
The interpretation of the product is Tyler's 'smart' reaction to it. As D put it, it's got to be a 'sentence of the month.'

Unknown said...

whereas i would love to order such a thing. i'm interested in seeing which 'charities' get picked for me :)
what ThinkGeek products do you use/recommend?