Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your motors here.

[vakkotaur]

Make a gadget that makes something easier, and you have a chance at selling lots of those gadgets. The microwave oven is rather practical example. The electric can opener has its place, though it does amuse me perhaps more than it should.

But the ultimate in laziness, so far, seems to me to be the motorized lollipop. It's so simple. It's also so silly that it was probably rejected my many people as not being something that would sell. Does anybody need a motorized lollipop? But silly and lazy does sell. Someone, somewhere, is making money (or at least hoping to) from that.

Now stop thinking of it as just a silly lollipop for the astonishingly lazy. It's a small, inexpensive, and very available electric motor. The motor comes with a battery, too. A lollipop is also thrown in. I wonder what else a person could do with a lollipop motor. Maybe not much, but even something just as silly as spinning the lollipop would be better than just throwing the motor away. I almost want to go buy a motorized lollipop or three now.

Comments

[yakko.livejournal.com]

Target market: children

Why it'll sell: kids like things that move around. Something electric is even better. Some kids may even figure out how the motor works and be able to drive other things with it. Others will gain a set of magnets after their motor teardown doesn't work out so well. Everyone gets candy, at least.

I'm sure they weren't marketed with the educational uses in mind, but that effect is there.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

At least the side effects (aside from any dental one, I suppose) are positive.

motorized lollipop

[jugularjaguar.livejournal.com]

Are you bored or something???

Re: motorized lollipop

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a bit. But I've been amused that motorized lollipops exist for some time now.