Comments on: Sony: Barfing Up Pointless Products While Spiraling the Bowl

By: Tristan O'Tierney

Tristan O'Tierney — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:28:53 +0000

Definitely sounds pretty useless. Got a link to the original site / product description?

By: bbum

bbum — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:08:51 +0000

If the product was being positioned as a kiosk kind of thing, I could believe they actually thought about “a market”.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. All of the press photos I could find showed families or small parties gathered around the HD TV in a living room sharing fruity cocktails and appetizers.

As a Kiosk device — as an unattended slideshow in the front of your store — why would it go to such great lengths to emphasize [really sub-par] sharing features?

This is a product without a market. A cool box — definitely a nice bit of hardware engineering — for which there are no buyers (or very very few anyway).

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:12:43 +0000

I suspect the Sony product is intended for commercial markets, for use as part of advertising kiosks, or something. The kind of high-def LCD slideshow you might see in a storefront window, marketing luxury condos in a development under construction.

They certainly didn’t spend much time on devising a consumer-friendly name for the thing. And that kind of market might be perfectly okay with some kind of preloaded calculatedly non-offensive soundtrack.