Air-up water bottles. When I bought mine it claimed to be a better water bottle all-around.
Its primary gimmick of tricking the brain into tasting the scent works well, I did drink a lot more water without needing actual flavouring. The fact that I could (unofficially) 3D print my own reusable flavouring pods to be a little more eco-friendly was a nice surprise and the reason I decided to try it.
The “better bottle” part is utter horse crap. It leaks when tipped over, even when tightly closed. Their marketing team went as far as adding “sip, don’t tip” to the instructions instead of making the cap properly seal.
Drinking from it was a chore as there was no water pressure and the constant bubbling (lets be real, its more like wet fart) noises made it impossible to use in silent settings.
I ended up going back to reusing a disposable bottle until it leaks even though the thought and feeling of something flavourless being in my mouth is revolting (its a sensory thing).
have you tried plain soda water? the carbonation might make it interesting enough to be drinkable even though it’s flavorless. if you get a drinkmate or something like that it’s fairly cheap to make at home
Drinkmate is the way to go. Vastly superior to sodastream
Holy cow. It’s like someone thought “the human race isn’t using enough single use plastic, how can we pump up those numbers? Maybe we can tie it in to the basic consumption of tap water.”
Head on…I applied directly to the forehead, but nothing happened.
I got an uncomfortable cooling sensation that couldn’t be wiped off. It made the headache worse.
I always assumed the reason they repeated that line and only implied it was for headaches with the animation is because they knew it wouldn’t work and wanted to avoid being called out for false advertising. Honestly if I was ever told it worked I would be absolutely astounded.
Gingerthe Segway was supposed to revolutionize the way we view cities!There’s a great episode of The Dollop about the Segway guy. 565 - Dean Kamen and It.
Dean Kamen is so cool to me, because he’s pretty unknown but has had such a positive impact on the world, especially with his STEM outreach to school kids. I got to meet him once briefly after the FRC national championship in 2014, he was going somewhere but still stopped to talk to us briefly and I thanked him and he signed my team hat.
TBF electric scooters are doing that now. Dude was just ahead of his time.
Also if you take “the way we view cities” literally, they definitely did since they became a popular way for tourists to view a city.
Useful product but where is the revolution
In the wheels obviously
Ahead of his time? It is a different product working with a different (and far older) principle?
The principle here that matters is “personal electric low-skill vehicle”. Segway tried it first, but electric scooters were way cheaper, and the GPS/smartphone technology helped it a lot.
The hype leading up to its reveal was wild.
I remember trying one in a section of a science museum as a kid!
CEO fell off a cliff with his Segway and died
Crucially to the mythology, it was the CEO who recently acquired the company, not the inventor who pioneered it
Every single anti depressant, anti anxiety or anti anything drug that acts like a placebo.
According to Dr. Chris Palmer and Dr. Georgia Ede, you’re more likely to get better results by just changing your diet.
Gotham Steel pans. They work decent the first couple times but I found the non-stick part of it wore down real quick
We can add Made In pans to this.
All? Or just the non-stick?
I haven’t seen the data on all but the nonstick is trash in a way that shows zero potential for their other stuff. Crap materials, uneven heating, etc. The very worst in almost every category.
Remember how Google’s Find My Network was supposed to be as good or better than Apple’s. We put a tracker in a checked bag. Couldn’t track it from once we lost sight till when it was 10 feet from me.
I’d already been doing contact juggling by the time the fushigi came out, but the ads implied that you could just… perform a skill by buying their product. It’d be like a company marketing the “mystical multiball” that shows people juggling 7 objects and implying you too could do that if you only owned their particular set.
Oh yeah, I 'member. I opened mine super excitedly and was immediately disappointed that it “didn’t work”. I couldn’t find any way to activate it. It then clicked that it was a regular ball the whole time and the people in the commercials were just skilled.
But, best-case scenario, you could have committed a sex crime!
Mario Party Advance on the Game Boy Advance.
I’ve seen kkclue’s very recent video on it. The main problem with this game is the false advertising, it doesn’t feel like a Mario Party game. Otherwise, it’s an alright game.
Pinephone, linux on smartphones isn’t ready and this won’t change any time soon.
Depends if you need group MMS or not
Kirby vacuums. I got one for free from a neighbor and she included the invoice by mistake. $2200 for a vacuum that smells like burning and can’t lift pet hair. Brush is working, bag is new, carpet is being lifted from the pad. But man, this thing fails at pet hair.
really? we’ve had ours for 21 years or so, and it still works well. admittedly we use the dyson almost exclusively now
Sounds like it really sucks.
There was a brand that worked by filling the tank with water and applying a vacuum to use the water as a filter. They weren’t amazing but they cost like $2k in 2001 money. My ex had one that her father had bought and I finally convinced her to get rid of it once it started shocking her.
Rainbow vacuums, my parents had one when I was growing up.
bong-vacuums
We still have one and it works really well. I suspect they were over filling the water reservoir
I heard No Man’s Sky gameplay was terrible compared to the trailer
Then Hello Games spent the next few years updating it so it was good. Yes they messed up but they don’t deserve the hate some people throw their way.
Not anymore no, the initial reaction was justified. But yeah after nearly 8 years of free content updates they have certainly redeemed themselves
Internet Historian made a pretty good video about it a couple years ago
They didn’t just mess up, it was straight up false advertising. It was even found to be such in court in a few chunks of Europe iirc.
But no, it was very much intentionally deceptive, and that’s why people were rightfully pissed off.
They HAVE put a ton of effort into making things right since release, which surprised me - my guess was they were gonna laugh all the way to the bank, dissolve their company and rebrand, and never push a single update for it. They seem to actually want to make the thing they promised, so credit where it’s due, but the initial uproar was proportional to their crime.
Interestingly enough that game got improved with patches. Seems to be the norm with games these days
No man’s sky was a bit different. They massively over promised in the initial marketing and couldn’t get it done.
there were a couple things that I hated about their overpromising on the front end; the uniform procedurally built worlds (there’s no real variety of terrain like Earth), the repetitive assets for structures (they’re all the same), planets don’t actually revolve around anything And you can’t fly between systems (they’re boxes, it’s not open. The only way from one system to the other is a loading screen hidden behind a warp animation).
Did they fix these?
https://youtu.be/bMnyCVyPNu8?si=3rhasMFOU1NBqRrt
This doesn’t give you infinite money one quarter at a time.
Fallout 76.
Don’t forget nuka dark rum
Dating sites. Complete useless trash.
I’ve had some great experiences, but I’m sure everyone’s mileage may vary
I think it got really bad the past few years. I think many people don’t even know that, but tinder used to be free. You got 5 free super swipes or something, unlimited swiping and so on. Now you can swipe a few times for free, and it is never ever the people who already liked you. It has a feature where you can limit your range and disable people from around the world. But half the women i see are from china or thailand. Women get flooded with likes and matches while as (an average?) guy, it’s like playing the lottery.
The problem that i see with that is that men generally don’t pick their “dream girl” they jest pick what they can get. Which is a weird dynamic for any sort of relationship. “Of all the likes, i picked you, because of your smile and we both like cycling.” “You were my only match in 3 month.”
Suit youself, I like lemmy
Huh?
I get hella hoes on this app
Sure buddy, sure
Wow, all of them, huh?
When everyone around you is an asshole, it’s time to reevaluate who the real asshole is.
Not sure how this is relavent here considering most of them are owned by the same holding and their goal is ensure engaged with their Shir platform.
But sure let’s just start out by shitting on the user base
I wonder if they share consumer info with themselves under the hood.
you would be lucky if they don’t sell that shit to data brokers…
“simps for big titties asians” is valuable data point for data brokers selling to shiti ad companies
Tell me about it, speaking of big titty asians, Ive always wondered if the bra and hair spray commertials were actually for men (or to convince woman to buy because of male appeal). They literally walk right up to that line. Example
My understanding is using hot chicks to market to Becky’s actually works
Unlike using “hot” men to market to men
Men don’t judge each other on look per we but rather based on their “idea of musculanity”
I’d have to agree. I met my wife on OKCupid in 2016 and almost immediately after that it changed several key features and became complete garbage.
That’s no way to talk about your wife.
Is there a Lemmy version of the ol reddit switcheroo?
The next time you see a similar joke you could be the one to start it!
A Lemmon Twist?
Thanks I hate it
I mean yeah but I also found my SO that way
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker. The movie was already getting a bad rep pre-release, and in response to potentially sales-damaging claims that Palpatine was coming back, Disney had Ian McDiarmid explicitly claim he wasn’t. A bad movie where there was nobody to point a finger to became a bad movie where there was someone to do it to. Then he passed away shortly after. I witnessed this mess all go down in theaters.
Ian McDiarmid didn’t pass away. But yes, this movie might be the single worst cinematic disappointment I’ve ever witnessed in my life. I’ll never watch it again.
Gosh dang it, I was fooled by another death rumor.
Crystal Skull springs to mind as a close second
