Comment Solar Powered Handbag... (Score 0) 235
While Ms Kilfidder's ingenuity is truly remarkable, I think she has missed the boat as to the true benefit of her invention and has thereby misjudged her potential market. She, understandably so, believes that women are going to be the primary market for the Sun Trap Handbag... but I think that once men hear about this product... they will actually buy more of them by many times over!
The inside of a woman's hand bag has ever since it's inception by a woman (I suppose), been a frightening mystery. All of a man's childhood fears and most of his adult fears are instantly replayed as in "your life flashing before your eyes" when he hears those dreaded words... "Honey, will you get (insert your own words here) out of my handbag?"
Now for all but the numbest of men... there is at least a 30 second period of time during which a rush of jumbled images of the bogeyman, things lurking under the bed, a porcupine waiting in the hollow tree you just stuck your hand into, the cashier turning on the flashing red light just above your head and asking into the public address system for a price check on the super maxi pads with wings... add your own fears here, if you are a man you know what I speak of, the fight or flight response we all experience when faced suddenly with the unknown.
Unfortunately, the fight or flight response leaves us with only two options, neither of which are particularly appropriate. This knee jerk response fades into the realization that we actually will have to DO something. Do I stick my hand into the handbag and see if I get lucky... nah. Do I just dump out the contents of the handbag and risk destroying her finely tuned storage system... nah. I should buy her one of those Sun Trap Handbags and then I could just look inside and... wait a minute... Do I really want to know what's in there? NAH! I'll just cut the tree down and bring her the whole thing! http://propellerhat.com/