Putting Infomercial Gadgets to the Test
Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 12 May 2010 11:34 AM
Who cares that knives chop vegetables just fine and that cupcakes are supposed to be small. “Late at night - perhaps stricken by insomnia and watching bad TV, that mental NyQuil - one can be talked into things” says the Boston Globe. Specifically things like the Magic Bullet chopping device or a mold that makes cupcakes 25 times larger that normal. The paper puts several gadgets hawked on late-night infomercials to the test in today’s paper.
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