Friday, November 7, 2008

they really didn't have to trademark the name




I would have never guessed, based on just looking at the photo, what the hell this thing actually was or was meant to do.


Here's the BB&B item description:


FreezCube™ Freezer Alert keeps your frozen foods under surveillance. FreezCube alerts you to the remaining conservation time of your frozen foods in the event that your freezer stops working due to a power failure or freezer breakdown. It also confirms that your freezer is working at the USDA's recommended temperature of 0° Fahrenheit. Four colored liquids melt independently, one after the other, depending on temperature increase. FreezCube is non-toxic, reusable and unbreakable. Perfect for a second freezer or freezer at a second home that may not be monitored on a regular basis.


Aha, it's a piece of crap to clutter up your freezer. Well, that's, uh...different. I though it was just a melted Rubik's Cube.


What really makes this stupid is that everyone knows what you do when the power goes out (after bumping around in the dark, trying to remember where the flashlight is, trying to locate the batteries for the flashlight because the ones in there died years ago then trying to find matches to light a candle and then briefly debating in your head about whether or not you really want to burn the decorative candles - they're so pretty - then remembering that you have old, crappy candles in that box under the stairs) wait...what was I talking about?


Oh yeah. The first freezer related thing you do when the power goes out is eat all the ice cream. Geez, everybody knows that. After that I'm supposed to continually monitor the melting colored liquids? Right - so that the spoiling of my food happens even faster because, like an idiot, I keep opening the damn freezer door?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If the power goes out, presumably the lights are out too so you'd have to put a burning candle in the freezer to monitor your freezer monitor. Dumb. What they need to do is make this thing glow-in-the-dark!

David said...

Or, you know, not make it at all.