Friday, 10. January 2003

Virtual fireplaces


Wallpaper for fish tanks, marketed in 2000 to cure GDD — Goldfish Depressive Disorder — was doomed to fail, the main drawback being the difficulty pet owners had seeing the genki fish in front of the Horny Toad, Sexy Octopus or appetizing Fish Food Yellow images. More successful were DVD gizmos, converting TVs across the nation into "Seaman" — Sega Industries' virtual carp video.

¬> Japan today

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