A new project coming soon to Indiegogo aims to be a Bluetooth-enabled centerpiece for your dining pleasure with adjustable lighting, music, and a salt shaker. It’s called Smalt. The A.V. Club has more.
Off and on, over many years, I have dined with a TV, music source, laptop, smartphone, gaming device, e-book reader, calculator (don’t remember why now), etc. Even big-screen films, at theaters that serve meals. Does that mean that the Smalt is actually
"the 45228759265937642992837th multi-sensory device"
to make the dining experience fun?
Not just an ordinary opinion. Since they prob consulted with paid experts to come up with snazzy and upbeat “opinion taglines”, I’d call such an opinion “marketing”.
I don’t think “marketing” is normally buttressed by research.
I was willing to grant them, for the sake of argument, a least a .00000000000007382th slice of a single unit of fun.
After that, I was just going for an estimate of the count of the actual, historical, number of multi-sensory devices with which persons have dined, which could reasonably have been judged to “add a positive measure, however slight, of fun to a given dining experience”.
I suppose food, flowers, candles, media, persons, etc, aren’t, strictly speaking, “devices”.
Off and on, over many years, I have dined with a TV, music source, laptop, smartphone, gaming device, e-book reader, calculator (don’t remember why now), etc. Even big-screen films, at theaters that serve meals. Does that mean that the Smalt is actually
"the 45228759265937642992837th multi-sensory device"
to make the dining experience fun?
@f00l Back up there. First they have to prove it actually makes dining any more “fun” than without it.
@nogoodwithnames With a double-blind study!
@jqubed Without data, their claims are just opinions.
@melonscoop
@nogoodwithnames
@jqubed
Not just an ordinary opinion. Since they prob consulted with paid experts to come up with snazzy and upbeat “opinion taglines”, I’d call such an opinion “marketing”.
I don’t think “marketing” is normally buttressed by research.
I was willing to grant them, for the sake of argument, a least a .00000000000007382th slice of a single unit of fun.
After that, I was just going for an estimate of the count of the actual, historical, number of multi-sensory devices with which persons have dined, which could reasonably have been judged to “add a positive measure, however slight, of fun to a given dining experience”.
Tuesday?