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The funny strikes again
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Sometimes you've just gotta put your head down on the desk and laugh until you cry. Like maybe you completely lost your marbles. Let loose with a couple of those great, whole-body guffaws that, when you're done, make you feel like everything is right in the world, no matter how boggled up it's been of late.
My first reaction to the Verballs talking voip internet phone from Aardvark Innovations was, "Hunh? Are you kidding me? Is this some kind of a joke?" Here, I'll let you see what I'm talking about:
Phone? It looks like a possessed potato. That moves its mouth when someone talks to you and flaps its arms around to alert you to an incoming call. And this is necessary because...? Who knows? I checked out their website, thinking I'd missed some vital bit of information that would somehow allow the whole concept to come into focus for me.
Instead of enlightenment, I found cartoons. And more versions of the "phone." Thoroughly disgruntled, I was just about ready to throw in the towel and declare Verballs a travesty of good gadgetry, when my 9-year old son and his friend walked into the office.
"Wow! What's that? That's cool!" So I told them about Verballs, how they're voip phones, and what they do. I showed them the demo of what Verballs look like in action. And they both want one. Apparently, I'm old. Because word on the street is that Verballs are super cool.
