A company called Evolve Showerheads has designed an eco-friendly showerhead that saves those gallons of water we waste, waiting for the shower to warm up. The way the shower head works is it reduces the flow of water down to a trickle until the water warms up to a comfortable 95 degrees. Using an evolve showerhead can save a yearly average of 2,700 gallons of water, the fossil-fueled energy it takes to heat it, and up to $75 off your utility bill. Thats a pretty good money saver if you ask me, as well as water.
Recently, Blackberry released it's newest phone the blackberry Storm. Now I do amdit this phone is very nice looking. But, with 8 million of the same phones out, when will this new touch screen sensation end? The thing looks exactly like other phones made by LG, Verizon, Samsung, and Apple. The defining feature of Blackberry phones is the actual keypad, not a touch screen. It's design is said to be inconsistent and confusing, so why bother changing your product?
In one of Seth's recent blogs, he brings up the point of eating even though you are not hungry. He claims that marketers taught consumers to eat more than needed, to "amplify our wants". His point is that we don't need anything, we just want everything. I thought this was a very good point. We want to fulfill that so called missing part of us that yearns for something more. Companies persuade the consumer into believing that life without their product would be dull. Our needs are confused with wants which ultimately turn into "needs", an obsession for having the item.
