Daring New Products!

[El Presidente]

Daring New Products:

Introduced at a New York food fair in January (and planned for U.S. distribution later this year): Great Scot International's potato-like chips in the "flavor" of Scotland's "national delicacy" (yes -- haggis chips!). [united Press International, 12-10-2010]

Burger King U.K.'s Christmas-season special this year (available briefly in December): a regular Whopper, garnished with a generous helping of brussels sprouts. [Marketing Magazine (London), 12-23-2010]

The notoriously isolated North Korean economy only permits new products to be sold as needs arise, and in December (according to a report by Agence France-Presse), the ministries began allowing Western-style "skinny jeans" (having relaxed the rule requiring female workers to wear skirts). Also recently for sale: human fertilizer (owing to the attrition of the animals that previously produced manure for family gardens). [Australian Broadcasting Corp. News, 12-29-2010]

The SEGA video company's Japan division began test-marketing its new Toylets game in January, designed for men's urinals. With sensors in the basin and a video screen at eye level, men score points based on the strength and accuracy of their streams. Among the suite of games: sumo wrestling (squirt the opponent out of the circle), graffiti-erasure (strong streams wipe out more graffiti), and skirt-raising (the stronger the stream, the higher a woman's skirt is "blown" upward). [The Guardian (London), 1-19-2011]

[anacostiakat]

Marketing guys must have a field day on those.

[Fuzz]

.... and skirt-raising (the stronger the stream, the higher a woman's skirt is "blown" upward). [The Guardian (London), 1-19-2011]

Is it really wise to get a guy excited while he's having a slash?

[mrbagel]

I would pay money for that SEGA video game.