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Onion News on Sony's New Piece of S--- Gadget

by Dan Reilly on February 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM


Sure, the Onion is supposed to be satirical and over the top, but it certainly speaks the truth about trendy gadgets in this profanity-laced video (after the break). The clip, from the Onion News Network, reports on Sony's newest gadget, which nobody needs and doesn't really do much, yet for whatever reason, everybody needs one.

They interview a regular guy outside of an electronics store, who says the gadget has a "whole bunch more memory and megapixels" than all his other "TV s---," so naturally, he needs to get it. The unnamed gadget has "impossible to open packaging" and drives its users crazy by "flashing random words and numbers" and "not coming with the doohickey thing it's supposed to."

What really strikes a chord with us is the "irritating ad campaign" that makes it seem like the next gadget you need to own "if you don't want to feel like a toothless hillbilly living in some hillbilly shack somewhere." You'll probably notice the similarities between that and Storm ads and any new iPod promotion. Check out the video below for yourself to see how much you can relate, and remember, it's chock full of cursing, so don't watch it in public without headphones. [From: The Onion]

Tags: comedy, funny, humor, satire, sony, the onion, TheOnion, top, video, web video, WebVideo

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