This is a bit odd, yet strangely interesting. Quite popular in the US, not sure about people from other corners of the world, Pez candy and especially the holder, have become almost iconic in stature. There is even a museum that can be visited online for those with a little time to spare, that houses some if not all, of these plastic personas. For the more inquisitive, or those of us that continually hunger for knowledge, there is also a link to the worlds largest catsup (or Ketchup) bottle.
Hard as hell to load, but fun to use, the Pez spring loaded magazine, would yield a single candy - if one could deftly pull the devices head back with their thumb. Now, the candy holder that wouldn't die, has been re-tasked to fulfill a desire for the 21st century.....dispensing music. Speaking of icons- oddly alarming, yet enticing to our thumbs at the same time, we can view the image below of the Star Wars Figure "Yoda". Wonder must we, what he is thinking, sitting upon his new silicon innards. Possibly he is about to say: "You will find only what you bring in."
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The designer said he was inspired to create the Pez MP3 after following a competition launched by breath mint maker Altoids, which challenged participants to create something original out of one of the company's pocket-size tin containers. The winner of the competition was an individual who stuffed a speaker for use with Apple Computer's iPod digital music player into one of the tins. "I saw that and I thought, that's pretty neat, taking something that you wouldn't think of as electronics and turning it into a device," Misterovich said. "When I started thinking about how I could do that, the Pez idea came to me, and I figured it was something that was pretty cool that could appeal to a lot of people." |
"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."
Yeah? OK, whatever you say there shortstop. Here's another quote that seems appropriate for the situation from this pint sized Jedi Master: "Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see."
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Source: C|Net
