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April 5, 2007 12:03 AM
Broken: Staples Mailmate shredder demo
Paco McFuentes points out:
If you click on Staples Mailmate junk mail shredder demo link, you are taken to a flash video showing the shredder working on a CD and a letter in its envelope.
This demo is broken because the video is an animation - rather than showing the actual product in use. Also, the clips show debris shooting out *from* the shredder - if the Staples Mailmate shredder actually did that, it would literally be broken.
Yeah I love the part in the cd demo where the sharp, triangular fragments shoot out at all angles. Forget goggles, you need a full kevlar suit just to go near the thing.
What's really broken is getting the junk mail in the first place.
I try to opt-out of the mailing lists where I can, and where I can't I write "Refused" on the mail and put it back in the mailbox. I collect the return addresses in an Excel sheet and occasionally write my postmaster asking them to not deliver to me mail from those addresses. I didn't ask for it, so I don't see why I should be the one responsible for getting rid of it.
See sections 1.1.1 through 1.1.4 at http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/508.htm
If you let it sit for a minute after playing the "CD to Bits" demo, the machine starts spitting out even more shards. I think someone had fun making this.
This Is Lame.
Please find better things to post. There are a plethora of truly amazingly bad and broken things in the world; this is not one of them.
I'm not sure I'd want to buy a shredder that spits the shreds back out onto the floor instead of into the bin.
Yes, this is broken, but not for the reason you suspect.
You see, this animation is so clearly out of whack that someone had to have intentionally made it look bad. So that means that the person who made it was a hideously disgruntled employee.
When your workers are that unhappy, you are a broken company. ;)
Guffaw! dx27s is right! If you wait a minute or so, it starts spewing gobs of CD shards! And then does it again another minute later!
All that's missing from this Flash movie is buzzsaw noises!
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Posted by: vulcanlogic7 at April 5, 2007 12:10 AM