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November 24th, 2008 · Posted by Skuds in Life · No Comments · Life

This month I actually managed to get some electronics from the Amazon Vine programme.  There are sometimes some more expensive electrical gadgets on offer like electric razors, USB hard drives, video cameras and so on but either I do not get offered them or I am too slow off the mark to get one – my own fault for not getting in the starting blocks ready to log in the moment the new list comes out. This month, quite by chance, I remembered only an hour or so after the list came out and found that I had two electronic gadgets offered to me: a hard-drive video camera and a hair dryer.

I was too slow for the camera but got a hair dryer, and then the excitement faded a bit when I remembered that the deal is they give me free stuff and I write reviews for them.  Fair enough, but I don’t feel I know enough about hair dryers to write anything sensible.  Now that I do all my hairdressing with a Bic razor I don’t find much need for drying.

I can report that it is nice and shiny, has more functions that I am used to.  The last time I had hair long enough to need drying, the machine only had on and off – this one has two lots of power settings.  It has more watts than (2200w) than most hair dryers seem to have and more power is always a good thing isn’t it?   Or have I been watching too much Top Gear?

I had to hand the thing over to the ladies to test it out.  Unsurprisingly it did dry their hair, so it must be OK.  Not sure what elseyou can look for in a hair dryer.  The only thing different to Chrystal’s dryer is that the cover for the filter is hinged so you can’t remove it and lose it.   Otherwise I don’t know how you can decide whether one machine is better than another except by price, power and build.

The instruction book talks about ionic this and ceramic that but I take all that sort of thing with a pinch of salt.  This is from an industry that advertises its shampoos by boasting of ingredients nobody has ever heard of in a feat of self-fulfilling marketing: thay say “includes zinc amino 13” and the public are supposed to think:

  1. I have never heard of ‘zinc amino 13’ but it must be a good thing or they would not mention it.  If it was bad they would keep quiet about it.
  2. None of the other shampoos have zinc amino 13 so this must be the best.

As they all do it, and all continue to do it, I can only assume the approach works – as it does for high-tech toys. For example, my new camera boasts Digic III as one of its selling points.  No idea what it is, but it must be good mustn’t it?  Anyway the cermic and ionic aspects may be empty marketing guff, but if they do turn out to be desirable qualities this machine has them!

Not that I am at all miffed about missing out on the video camera….  much as I would have enjoyed playing with it: it would be churlish to complain when I am, after all, getting free stuff.

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