Inside Out

This might not be the place to talk about gadgets you don’t need - let me think about it - no! it’s exactly the right place! Aren’t you totally into gadgets too? You started as a kid, fantasizing about your father having a strawberry favoured tank to pick you up at school (which can fly and be invisible - but you didn’t needed to mention that because that’s standard equipment).

Well here we are 20 years later still getting totally excited about extra features you don’t need to survive or even to live comfortably. Let’s call them the “cherry on top features/ gadgets”. Besides the childhood memories these “cherries” are exactly what you need to be sucessful. You can make people want whatever you have to offer because of the price, the quality or the extra “cherry”. The magic gift of the cherry: It can make you ignore the voice of reason. You could call the “cherry” USP, but that would totally take the fun out of it and make it sound like there is a reason. For the Jetsons generation strawberry flavour (or camouflage pattern for the boys) sometimes is enough.

Here are some examples of what is a cherry to me:

- I’ve already posted a pic of my iPod with the cherry sticker

- Luminodot: I still hope to get it for Christmas, but if not I’ll buy it with the money I’ll get for Christmas. (found on Creativecloseup.com)

- Nohohon by Tomy: I already have 4 of them, but I’ll keep buying these cute moving things as they come in different colours, styles and move differently.

- Motorcycle suit: Do I need to say more?

- Zombie garden sculpture: I might need a garden first.

I’ll stop here. Otherwise I’ll spend the rest of my life with this list…

Unfortunately the “cherries” don’t always keep their promise. My iDog for example made me crazy within one day and had to disappear.