Hey, what’s a really basic object that no one has any problems with that we can turn into something complicated and stupid then sell to people? Hmmm…… Pens? Nah, too useful. Wallets? No, we already did that. Air? Maybe a tad too basic, we’ll wait til next year to do that one.
WAIT, I got it — Jump rope! Let’s take a thing that is literally a piece of rope that people jump over and turn it into two opposing computerized objects and charge $40 and call it a new weight-loss fad! Whoops, look at the time — I gotta get back to Hell to pick up Satan Jr. from Pitchfork School in fifteen minutes, because I am The Devil.
(Consumerist, via Buzzfeed)
