technology: a fool and their money.

With so much jargon bandied about these days it is easy for organisations with purely financial interests to extort money from the clueless. The technology market is probably the best case of such activity, with companies and magazines preying on the ignorant with massive financial rewards.
What Hi-Fi are notorious for ridiculous reviews with the sole purpose of keeping advertisers happy, and the infamous Denon Link  which is nothing more than a $500 Cat 5 cable is a prime example.
I thought I had seen everything, but whilst reading this thread (which I suggest you check out) I came across some hilarious products of which I will detail just a few.

Firstly, the Russ Andrews 'Audio Desk', that claims to improve the quality of your CD audio and DVD video by cutting a massive grove in the disc. The last thing any sane person would do is cut a massive chunk out of a DVD spinning at hundreds of RPM.
Another Russ Andrews product is a CD cleaner that can magically make your favourite artist sing better. Through the power of magic this cleaner can modify the data encoded on your CD to make listening to Björk even better.


There is so much of this crud that I can't mention it all, in future I'll try to collect together a more definitive list. But before I leave you I'll just give you a link to an investigation the Advertising Standard Agency are conducting into Russ Andrews, they must be waiting for a new delivery of Chappie.