Thursday, February 18, 2010

South Korean Sausage Fingers!

South Koreans' are using sausages for fingers!

Did that sentence confuse you? When I read about this zany cranana worthy development, I was confused and intrigued too.

It all starts with a problem you might be familiar with yourself. Are you an iPod or iPhone user? Then you might know that in the winter time you can't use your mitten and glove clad fingers to navigate your fancy shiny iSomething or other. They need human touch to work and if you live anywhere cold, you probably hate having to take off your gloves every time you need to make a phone call while out and about. Is it the biggest problem facing the world? No way. Is it something that you could put up and shut up about? Probably. Is it something that drives you crananas even though you know it's really not that big of a deal? You bet. And I'm sure you'd be interested in hearing about a solution right?

Someone, somewhere in Korea had come to their wits end about this problem too. This certain clever person had the random thought to try a sausage. How does that come to pass? We might never know. But what we do know is that the meat-tastic solution worked!

The meaty substitute (made by CJ Corporation) for our fingers works as an iPhone stylus because the snacks are packaged with electrostatically charged plastic, which fools the phone into thinking it's a human digit. Apparently, this is good news for everyone, including CJ Corporation, which has reportedly seen an increase in sales in their convenience store sausage by 39%.

From what I can deduce, that particular brand of sausage isn't available here in the US. So who's going to be the special someone that finds Americans our meat stylus? Curious and want to read a bit more? Check out Huffington Post!


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