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August 17, 2017 08:45 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KuJrx2ZU5D8/amazon-ads-for-mystery-junk-de.html
Amazon ads for mystery junk defy explanation
William Turton took note of the bizarre ads for inexplicable items — mysterious geometric forms, molded plastic thingies, confusing wooden components — and investigated. Thankfully, his investigation goes no-where, leaving us in the speculative realm of data-driven and maybe AI-curated advertising.
I would have bet the item above was one of those marbled salt slabs you cook food on instead of a baking tray, but it turns out to be a foam mattress topper.
P.S. I'm quite sure that the "bare image" aesthetic is part of the Amazon Interesting Finds thing, a frequently-updated grid of tchotchkes and oddities such as this $4 USB drive in the shape of a chocolate bar and these soup ladles in the shape of the Lock Ness Monster.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KuJrx2ZU5D8/amazon-ads-for-mystery-junk-de.html
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