Gadgets

Facial Flex Infomercial Is SFW… But Only Just

Pick your time carefully when choosing to watch this hideous/hilarious infomercial, showing a young woman working her facial muscles. And if you’re planning on actually buying one and giving your face a work-out in the office, pick your time even more carefully.


July 27, 2010
Entertainment

Pitchmen Returns For Season Two Sans Billy Mays

Pitchmen, the Discovery Channel reality series about infomercial pitchmen starring Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, is returning next month, but without one key element: the late Billy Mays.


April 23, 2010
Gadgets

Life Without Gadgets, As Seen On TV

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What would life be like without all of those helpful infomercial technologies? Without the Awesome Auger, the Doggie Step, the Closet Organiser, the Egg Genie or countless others? As this impressively thorough compilation shows: a big, miserable mess. [Kottke]


June 14, 2009
Gadgets

The Comfort Wipe: Because Basic Bodily Functions Are So Archaic

It looks like Lisa Simpson’s worst nightmare has come true. Now all of America can say, “I wash myself with a rag on a stick.”


April 1, 2009
Software

Star Guitar iPhone App Promo Video Brings You All the Charm of Late Night Infomercials

Lisa and Toyo demonstrate the Star Guitar iPhone app with such paid-for enthusiasm that we just need to award them the Giz Video of the Day award. It’s that good.