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Title: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Eris on 03 Aug 2010, 17:43
In my wanderings on the internet yesterday, I was introduced to a product that made me do a double take, because it just seemed so bizarre that I didn't understand how someone would have come up with the idea for it, let alone produce it and create a website and an ad for it. That product was:

Vulva (http://vulva-original.com/de/) (NSFW,obviously)
The cologne that smells like a woman's vagina. With an ad where a man smells the seat of an exercise bike after a lady riding it in her underwear sweats all over it.


What could trump this?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 03 Aug 2010, 17:46
Creepy
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 03 Aug 2010, 17:49
Yeah... Why am I so not surprised that site is a .de domain?

I'm not sure I can beat that, but, in terms of advertising that is, uh... vaginal and makes you wonder WTF?, I've always thought this one was the king.  (until now)

(http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/Manix.jpg)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tania on 03 Aug 2010, 17:51
there are so many things from the skymall catalog that i could include in here, but for now i'll stick to one of my personal favourites: the clock that tells you what day of the week it is and provides absolutely no other information (http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=102518628).
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tinysmidgen on 03 Aug 2010, 17:54
Quote
Our greatest challenge was to preserve the intimate scent without altering the essences thereof. After many years of extensive testing...
They spent YEARS testing this? What in the hell...
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: KvP on 03 Aug 2010, 17:59
On the contrary I think Vulva would make an amazing gag gift. I know several lesbians who would appreciate such a product.

I mean yeah it's like $60 but who says gag gifts have to be cheap?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ladybug on 03 Aug 2010, 18:04
I could've needed the dayclock from time to time :/ A lot of things show just the date and the time, not the day, which can be annoying. I had Saturday all day today. Of course, I could check it with one mouse-click, so yeah.

I'm fairly certain the world does not need either of these things:
(http://www.skymall.com/images/products/0d/17/06/102174152x.jpg) (http://www.skymall.com/images/products/83/c9/13206464x.jpg)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Zingoleb on 03 Aug 2010, 18:06
It's taken down now, but I used to have a link to a book of semen-based recipes.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 03 Aug 2010, 18:07
On the contrary I think Vulva would make an amazing gag gift. I know several lesbians who would appreciate such a product.

I mean yeah it's like $60 but who says gag gifts have to be cheap?


Also it's not a cologne. It's a "feminine, erotic, intimate scent for your own smelling pleasure".
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tinysmidgen on 03 Aug 2010, 18:08


I'm fairly certain the world does not need either of these things:
(http://www.skymall.com/images/products/0d/17/06/102174152x.jpg)

For the Japanese-Themed room in everyone's house...you've all got one, right? Or am I the only one..

EDIT:
It's taken down now, but I used to have a link to a book of semen-based recipes.

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/natural-harvest---a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes/5198959
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Zingoleb on 03 Aug 2010, 18:11
Oh, shit, I've been looking for that link! I need to buy my mother something for her birthday.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Lunchbox on 03 Aug 2010, 18:12
Oh god oh god don't read the reader reviews before lunch
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Eris on 03 Aug 2010, 18:14
On the contrary I think Vulva would make an amazing gag gift. I know several lesbians who would appreciate such a product.

I mean yeah it's like $60 but who says gag gifts have to be cheap?

Also it's not a cologne. It's a "feminine, erotic, intimate scent for your own smelling pleasure".

Less serious talk more silly things.

A Fleshlight (http://www.toplessrobot.com/count-machine-onahole-hiroshi-chocoball-mukai.jpg) that counts how many strokes are made per minute, and how long it takes to finish
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tinysmidgen on 03 Aug 2010, 18:14
Oh, shit, I've been looking for that link! I need to buy my mother something for her birthday.

Get her this too

http://www.lasplash.com/publish/cat_index_Food_and_Wine/The_Seduction_Cookbook_-_Sex_and_the_Kitchen_2.php
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: scarred on 03 Aug 2010, 22:43
Less serious talk more silly things.

how is "feminine, erotic, intimate scent for your own smelling pleasure" not silly?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 03 Aug 2010, 23:18
Regretsy is great (http://www.regretsy.com/)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Graphite on 04 Aug 2010, 05:22
The Twilight dildo (http://tantusinc.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TD&Product_Code=VAMP) was my first thought.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: onewheelwizzard on 04 Aug 2010, 07:10
SkyMall really is a gold mine for this kind of stuff.  Check out the Electronic Feng Shui Compass (http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=102727481&c=) or the Treadmill Desk (http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=203280892&c=10240).
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ptommydski on 04 Aug 2010, 07:32
Any and all albums by the band U2.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Patrick on 04 Aug 2010, 11:34
Any and all albums by the band U2.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Dliessmgg on 04 Aug 2010, 12:27
I was gonna say K-ON (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlei5gydjrz) but I still watch it every week.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: scarred on 04 Aug 2010, 13:15
The Twilight dildo (http://tantusinc.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TD&Product_Code=VAMP) was my first thought.

honestly the dildo is one of the least creepy products (http://www.etsy.com/listing/37339934/twilight-edward-cullen-robert-pattison) to come from twilight
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: J-cob9000 on 04 Aug 2010, 15:32
Jackhammer Jesus (http://www.divine-interventions.com/jackhammer.html)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Zingoleb on 04 Aug 2010, 16:07
I was really hoping that was a link to a Jesus blow up doll I saw years ago. Six holes!
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Jimor on 04 Aug 2010, 17:02
Another old one from the pointless thread, but a good one. Treadmill on wheels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM).
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Graphite on 04 Aug 2010, 20:15
The Twilight dildo (http://tantusinc.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TD&Product_Code=VAMP) was my first thought.

honestly the dildo is one of the least creepy products (http://www.etsy.com/listing/37339934/twilight-edward-cullen-robert-pattison) to come from twilight
True. (http://www.etsy.com/listing/28682772/edward-cullen-life-size-twilight)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 Aug 2010, 20:34
Those pillows with anime characters on them.  Also a lot of things from J-List (http://www.jlist.com/)



Please tell me I'm not the only one that thinks the sarcophagi cd holder is awesome
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tania on 04 Aug 2010, 20:34
Treadmill on wheels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM).

not gonna lie, i would totally buy one of these just to chase children around and freak them the hell out
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Zingoleb on 04 Aug 2010, 22:15
Please tell me I'm not the only one that thinks the sarcophagi cd holder is awesome

Only if you stock it full of Nile/Karl Sanders
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ballard on 05 Aug 2010, 00:04
Treadmill on wheels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM).

not gonna lie, i would totally buy one of these just to chase children around and freak them the hell out

I love the 80s police dramedy theme music.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: smack that isaiah on 05 Aug 2010, 17:26
The Twilight dildo (http://tantusinc.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TD&Product_Code=VAMP) was my first thought.

honestly the dildo is one of the least creepy products (http://www.etsy.com/listing/37339934/twilight-edward-cullen-robert-pattison) to come from twilight
howsabout some twilight panties (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/30/pattison-panties-emtwilig_n_340022.html)? (be sure to note the inside (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-10-30-mr_01accd2044e785.jpg) of said panties)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Johnny C on 07 Aug 2010, 22:35
Another old one from the pointless thread, but a good one. Treadmill on wheels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM).

THE ULTIMATE PATENT PENDING MACHINE
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: David_Dovey on 01 Sep 2010, 19:27
Quote from: Jeffery Rowland
If you're wondering what Carlashes are, they are EYELASHES for your FUCKING CAR http://www.carlashes.com
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Christophe on 01 Sep 2010, 22:08
(http://djwiky.com/wikyblog/files/2010/05/four_loco.jpg)

11% alcohol, oodles of caffeine. I have been drunk for only an hour and a half; it's 10:00pm now but my mind is in 1:30 mode.

Fuck you, 4loko.

Fuck you so hard.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 01 Sep 2010, 22:27
is it four-lock-o or do you pronounce it four-loco?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 01 Sep 2010, 23:11
pronounced loco, and while not the classiest drink its the cheapest drunk I've ever had.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Professor Snuggles on 02 Sep 2010, 01:19
(http://djwiky.com/wikyblog/files/2010/05/four_loco.jpg)

11% alcohol, oodles of caffeine. I have been drunk for only an hour and a half; it's 10:00pm now but my mind is in 1:30 mode.

Fuck you, 4loko.

Fuck you so hard.

Also it has wormwood extract and 12% ABV and if you ever talk shit about loko again I will cut you.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 02 Sep 2010, 01:40
It looks like it tastes terrible.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Patrick on 02 Sep 2010, 05:22
if you ever talk shit about loko again I will cut you.

FTFY Kiff
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: look out! Ninjas! on 02 Sep 2010, 06:49
I have no idea where I can but damn it I want one or twelve of those right now.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 02 Sep 2010, 06:55
Seriously, after drinking two of those in a row I was literally the drunkest I have ever been in my life. You do not want 12 of them. My lighter weight younger brother did the same and ended up passed out on the kitchen floor because he told me "well I realized I needed to lie down and it looked so comfortable". He then spent the next 3 hours throwing up in the sink, finally managed to get him downstairs to sleep on the couch. He was more or less blacked out the entire time, he remembered very little in the morning.

Also the blue raspberry tastes like burnetts with gasoline in it, the only manageable flavors are orange, lemonade and cranberry lemonade. the watermelon is.... okay.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: look out! Ninjas! on 02 Sep 2010, 07:02
The real issue is how the hell do I get some in South Australia?

I mean ffs I can't even find out if some unscrupulous character is selling it on ebay because it keeps auto-correcting loko to look.
That is if its even import-legal.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Professor Snuggles on 02 Sep 2010, 07:08
Far as I know it's only American. Almost took some with me to Israel just so I wouldn't be lokoless for too long.

It's perfect booze, man. Never go more than 8loko, I like to stick at 6loko, generally. Cranberry Lemonade and orange are the best, grape is so far and beyond the worst I can't even comprehend.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Christophe on 02 Sep 2010, 08:26
Honestly I'm not really talking shit about it too much, that was all off the bender I had from drinking it last night. For my height and weight it was an insta-drunk kit.

It's one of those things that in a perfect world shouldn't exist but which in this world I am glad that it does.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Professor Snuggles on 02 Sep 2010, 09:19
The world would be far less perfect without loko, my friend.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 02 Sep 2010, 11:36
I'm actually pretty okay at 8Loko, its not a thing I do often because I can get a bit silly drunk at the end, but I'm usually okay.

The fastest I've done it was at about 1 hour even and it was almost too much, the last half of the can can get intense. I usually tend to stick around 6Loko as well, and that's generally over a stretch of an hour and a half.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: sean on 02 Sep 2010, 12:49
so wait are there different products called 6loko and 8loko?

i swear i need to try this shit.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: october1983 on 02 Sep 2010, 13:10
i'm pretty sure that's not what it means.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Patrick on 02 Sep 2010, 14:04
It's not. Subdivide yr numbers, boyo.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Professor Snuggles on 03 Sep 2010, 00:10
i have yet to ocholoko. Is it best to do this over the course of an afternoon/evening? 4loko got me silly, i am thinking seisloko could be fun. But honestly I'm not sure if i could taste any of their flavors for the 48oz duration

Water Joe. Water Joe should never have been created

if you OchoLoko, you stay in the house, and you pray no one is around to see you. Or that they're equally loko. Sam, the best is to get an orange and a cran lem and drink em fast, but not too fast. Like, loko, bud tallboy, loko is my shit. Then like, whatever else is around. Loko is only really dangerous because fuck yeah you keep drinking afterwards.

See this amazingly awesome hipinion thread for details about how things can go.

http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14628&start=0
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Thomas Edison on 03 Sep 2010, 04:35
A guy on there mentions it's sold in the UK but where the fuck is it. I haven't seen it in any stores.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: jhocking on 03 Sep 2010, 05:04
Water Joe. Water Joe should never have been created

 :-(
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: valley_parade on 04 Sep 2010, 07:45
Nevermind England, I have yet to see this thing in the Northeast..
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tania on 04 Sep 2010, 09:03
dude i felt terrible after that stuff+brews on brews. like, water shouldn't give me the shakes

the problem with water joe is that can it absolutely under no circumstances EVER be left in massive quantities around extremely drunk and dehydrated sweaty people because this leads to said drunk people instinctively grabbing and drinking anything that even looks like water with the result that if you are me you drink like seven of them in two hours and then end up shaking violently and wanting to die pretty much all night

on the other hand i think if i drank like, one during the day in a totally sober context it would probably be okay
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: BlahBlah on 04 Sep 2010, 09:26
A guy on there mentions it's sold in the UK but where the fuck is it. I haven't seen it in any stores.

You can get buckfast though, I imagine it's similar?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Patrick on 05 Sep 2010, 11:54
I have always wanted to get a bottle of Buckie just so I can be cool like Ted Leo
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 05 Sep 2010, 23:52
Looked up backfast, ended up I watched a couple of youtube videos of some guys chugging it who I think were speaking english, but whatever accent it was was way too thick for me to even begin to understand it.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: philharmonic on 07 Sep 2010, 23:18
To the poster on previous page: Thank you for reminding me of "J List" I could waste hours looking at the stuff there.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: amok on 08 Sep 2010, 09:52
Looked up backfast, ended up I watched a couple of youtube videos of some guys chugging it who I think were speaking english, but whatever accent it was was way too thick for me to even begin to understand it.

Possibly Scottish? We can't really tell if they're speaking english either, don't worry.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 29 Sep 2010, 18:56
Oh yeahhhhh Na'vi fleshlight (https://www.fleshlight.com/alien/)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: tania on 29 Sep 2010, 20:02
if you'll excuse me for just a second, i need to go set fire to the earth now
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ballard on 29 Sep 2010, 21:45
The ultimate alien fantasy has landed. The new Fleshlight Alien is an unworldly experience that will abduct your penis and send it spiraling through in a real milky way! Use the Alien Fleshlight while watching Hustler's new 3D epic, "This Ain't Avatar XXX" for the ultimate in E.T. ecstasy.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ballard on 29 Sep 2010, 21:47
In a similar vein:

(http://www.necronomicox.com/images/Trio-logo-teaser.jpg)

Yes, those are a Cthulhu dildo and a rotting zombie flesh dildo.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Inlander on 29 Sep 2010, 22:31
Wait, didn't those Avatar things fuck with their tails??
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Zingoleb on 08 Oct 2010, 13:23
cockthulu

Just looked at the order page. It comes in "Fuck Your Face Orange".
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: WestEnder67 on 10 Oct 2010, 12:29
A guy on there mentions it's sold in the UK but where the fuck is it. I haven't seen it in any stores.

You can get buckfast though, I imagine it's similar?
With the added effects of smelling like, looking like and having the consistency of cough syrup.

Vile stuff.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 17 Oct 2010, 11:26
http://thesnuggiesutra.com
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: MrBlu on 17 Oct 2010, 23:59
So, wait. I know I'm late, but 4Loko is essentially a cheerleader mixed drink, with Caffine? I'm trying to peice together why somoene would make/drink that.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Hairy Joe Bob on 18 Oct 2010, 06:27
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39905000/jpg/_39905985_dasani_203.jpg)

Dasani. lovely pure bottled water.

From a tap. In Sidcup. thank you Coca Cola!
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Papersatan on 18 Oct 2010, 08:46
"These slogans were used seemingly oblivious to the fact that spunk is slang for semen in the UK"
but, but, it means that here too... how coudl they not know?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: onewheelwizzard on 18 Oct 2010, 13:13
But that's just a white powder.  There's no telling what it might be.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Blue Kitty on 18 Oct 2010, 16:25
I'm pretty sure my post on it was deleted, or I just forgot to post it in the first place, but there's a penis snuggie. No link this time around.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Eris on 18 Oct 2010, 16:27
The forum was saying you had posted, but when you went into the thread it wasn't there. So you did post, and it wasn't deleted (afaik), but it's just not here.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Blue Kitty on 18 Oct 2010, 16:29
Oh, ok, cause I went through my recent posts and it wasn't there either so I got really confused.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: MrBlu on 23 Oct 2010, 00:24
But that's just a white powder.  There's no telling what it might be.
I can tell you it's not cocaine.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ballard on 23 Oct 2010, 00:57
The source of the image is a blog about drug abuse detection and treatment. It's very likely not real coke.

But good job keepin' it classy anyway.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Barmymoo on 23 Oct 2010, 01:00
I have made an extensive study of the image and I think it's icing sugar.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: JD on 23 Oct 2010, 08:06
The forum was saying you had posted, but when you went into the thread it wasn't there. So you did post, and it wasn't deleted (afaik), but it's just not here.
It's a very annoying glitch.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Lunchbox on 23 Oct 2010, 16:04
Nah icing sugar is a lot finer and doesn't clump like that. I think it's a flour like arrowroot maybe.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Inlander on 23 Oct 2010, 19:11
Really? I've got a jar of icing sugar in my cupboard and it's clump-crazy.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Slick on 23 Oct 2010, 19:33
Some icing sugars are sold cut with cornstarch for helping to thicken up icing, that could be what's confounding your differing experiences with icing sugar.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Lunchbox on 23 Oct 2010, 19:51
Yeah I mean icing sugar clumps for sure, but its clumps tend to be way bigger and more sort of jaggedy rock like than the much smaller round lumps there. Also the image mystery powder has a slightly creamy colour to it, whereas icing sugar is generally bright white. That could be a photo filter or WB setting though.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Jimor on 24 Oct 2010, 02:49
Some icing sugars are sold cut with cornstarch...

I just want to appreciate how appropriate that phase is when talking about fake cocaine.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Aurjay on 30 Oct 2010, 03:10
and the zombie (http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2LWo1O/www.webpronews.com/topnews/2005/06/30/scientists-reanimate-dogs-dislike-zombie-comparisons) apocalypse begins.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: LTK on 30 Oct 2010, 04:07
A) That is not a product, B) there is nothing zombie-like about it, and C) it serves a legitimate goal in medical science.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Barmymoo on 30 Oct 2010, 04:33
Whilst that sounds amazing from a scientific and medical perspective, it is massively creepy from an emotional point of view and I definitely understand the zombie comparisons.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Spluff on 30 Oct 2010, 05:56
How is that creepy?  Do you find CPR emotionally creepy?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Oct 2010, 06:46
That report is five years old; I want to know if they've done anything more with the technique.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: LTK on 30 Oct 2010, 07:33
They certainly haven't been sitting still. Here (http://www.safar.pitt.edu/recentpubs.html) is a list of research articles the resuscitation research center has recently published, more than 40 this year.  One experiment on mild therapeutic hypothermia (no less than 35 degrees C) was conducted in a children's hospital on patients with cardiac arrest, which didn't result in a lower (or higher) mortality rate but showed the treatment was feasible.

There were also experiments on pigs, one of which used hydrogen sulfide as a cooling agent, which didn't have a significant effect. Another one was similar to the experiment in the article, using ice-cold saline aortic flush and chest compressions. This one had a promising outcome: Spontaneous circulation was restored in all eight pigs, and seven of them survived past 9 days. After resuscitation they were only slightly handicapped in neurological functions. I don't know if that means they're making progress without reading all of those articles, but they're still working on it.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 30 Oct 2010, 07:56
Did they kill dogs to test this? Not cool
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Lunchbox on 30 Oct 2010, 08:35
What about the thousands of dogs that get destroyed for nothing more than shelter capacity reasons every day?
I know it's sad and dogs are awesome, but if they can help us out in this way that's pretty nice of them.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: allison on 30 Oct 2010, 09:28
They certainly haven't been sitting still. Here (http://www.safar.pitt.edu/recentpubs.html) is a list of research articles the resuscitation research center has recently published, more than 40 this year.  One experiment on mild therapeutic hypothermia (no less than 35 degrees C) was conducted in a children's hospital on patients with cardiac arrest, which didn't result in a lower (or higher) mortality rate but showed the treatment was feasible.

This actually helped save my grandma's life when she had her heart attack. The doctors radically lowered her body temperature overnight while she was in a drug-assisted/induced coma, giving her brain and heart time to repair while they also assessed damage. They brought her out of the coma after 12 hours, and she (somewhat miraculously) was conscious and had her wits about her (mostly!).
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Barmymoo on 30 Oct 2010, 09:52
It isn't bringing dogs back to life that I find creepy (although it is weirdly fascinating), but the blood draining and filling with saline? That is very weird.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: snalin on 30 Oct 2010, 10:18
So when are we going to expand this into freezing people down and colonizing other planets?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: David_Dovey on 30 Oct 2010, 10:25
This (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/introducing_hipsters_incorpora.html) isn't a product per se but it definitely fits in here nevertheless.

Also, it represents a fantastic chance for certain denizens of this very forum to make some spare scratch. You know who you are.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 30 Oct 2010, 14:19
So when are we going to expand this into freezing people down and colonizing other planets?

Twenty years! (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8091965/Nasa-unveils-bold-plans-to-send-humans-one-way-to-Mars-to-colonise-planet.html)
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Barmymoo on 30 Oct 2010, 14:46
(http://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/ekmps/shops/danihall/images/tapewoolf1.jpg)

It is the best thing (http://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/ekmps/shops/danihall/images/tapewoolf1.jpg).
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: David_Dovey on 30 Oct 2010, 21:58
They should make it in "On The Road"
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Ballard on 02 Nov 2010, 19:21
Dovey, for a moment I thought that was toilet paper and I was gonna high five you.
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: Dliessmgg on 08 Nov 2010, 13:40
Who's your favorite BzzzBuddy (http://www.bzzzbuddies.com/)?
Title: Re: Products that should never have been created
Post by: SirJuggles on 09 Nov 2010, 03:31
...the "stories" for each of their models seem to be marketed to 9-year-old girls. I question the wisdom of this marketing decision. Also:

Quote from: BzzzBuddies
"But that doesn't bother Paws at all. He's able to crawl into all the small and tight spaces that the others can't, and he's the #1 puppy at hide-and-seek!"