17th December 2014, 1:58 PM
Now, normally I'd say an unboxing video is the worst sort of worship of consumerism one could ask for. We're talking about someone opening a box of the thing you were waiting to buy to show you the thing you were waiting to buy, even though you can do the "unboxing" yourself when you buy it, because you already planned on buying it! Then the companies that MAKE the products got in on the action, resulting in something somehow even more pointless. We're talking about the company that PACKED the box doing the unboxing. That means they spent a lot of time meticulously packing a box, then they undid all their work in front of a camera in an example of pure uncut inefficiency made real. (I'd rather see a video of the BOXING process frankly, at least that could be an educational "how it's made" style video.)
This unboxing however, this one really gets my attention.
This unboxing however, this one really gets my attention.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)