Disposable video camera
March 2nd, 2008 | by Paul |That’s not a clever title. There’s a disposable video camera out there.
I first saw it a few weeks ago at my local CVS. That’s a chain of drug stores for those of you outside Chicago.
According to this CNN.com article, CVS unveiled the disposable, single-use video camera in summer 2005. I guess I’m glad it didn’t take off the way they were planning (seeing your first one sitting in a bin of film in a low-income neighborhood almost three years after it came out is not my definition of a runaway success), but it’s weird that it came out in the first place.
They probably said that about disposable cameras, too.
I’m trying to come up with ways to make fun of the disposable video camera, but I can’t. Everything that I come up with could apply to something we take for granted as disposable. Single-use cameras. Razor blades. Plastic forks. Lighters.
I mean, when you think about it, a disposable lighter is pretty asinine. It’s a tube of flammable liquid you’re expected to toss in the garbage. That’s weird.
I guess that’s the major critique of the disposable video camera - knowing the American market, it made perfect sense that CVS thought it would take off.