{"id":15596,"date":"2010-04-23T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/life-without-gadgets-as-seen-on-tv-infomercials\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:40:00","slug":"life-without-gadgets-as-seen-on-tv-infomercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/life-without-gadgets-as-seen-on-tv-infomercials.php","title":{"rendered":"Life Without Gadgets, As Seen On TV [Infomercials]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--  div style=\"background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;\"&gt;<a title=\"Click here to read Life Without Gadgets, As Seen On TV\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/infomercials\/\"><span>#<\/span><span>infomercials<\/span><\/a>&lt;\/div --><div><a title=\"Click here to read Life Without Gadgets, As Seen On TV\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5522220\/life-without-gadgets-as-seen-on-tv\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" height=\"120\" width=\"160\" alt=\"Click here to read Life Without Gadgets, As Seen On TV\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_160x120_08xqlgwtsag.jpg\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div><\/div><p>\t\t\t\t<!-- videoId: 08xQLGWTSag --><!-- \/videoId: 08xQLGWTSag --> What would life be like without all of those helpful infomercial technologies? Without the Awesome Auger, the Doggie Step, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/124871\/saturday-night-live-closet-organizer\">the Closet Organizer<\/a>, the Egg Genie, or countless others? As this impressively thorough compilation shows: a big, miserable mess. [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/04\/the-fake-problems-in-infomercials\">Kottke<\/a>]\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5522220\/life-without-gadgets-as-seen-on-tv\" title=\"Click here to read more about Life Without Gadgets, As Seen On TV [Infomercials]\">More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6d9b63ac651ce2d22d43d1741e83e44f&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_img.phdo?s=6d9b63ac651ce2d22d43d1741e83e44f&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_seg?add=25366&amp;t=2\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=NKmFaW72RZI:Godjhc-tgv8:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=NKmFaW72RZI:Godjhc-tgv8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=NKmFaW72RZI:Godjhc-tgv8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_full?i=NKmFaW72RZI:Godjhc-tgv8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=NKmFaW72RZI:Godjhc-tgv8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_full?i=NKmFaW72RZI:Godjhc-tgv8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e682_NKmFaW72RZI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like without all of those helpful infomercial technologies? Without the Awesome Auger, the Doggie Step, the Closet Organizer, the Egg Genie, or countless others? As this impressively thorough compilation shows: a big, miserable mess. [Kottke] More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}