I’m glad the young fellow with the bike got to go on. The portable gym thing looks heavy and bulky to me, and the Niya doll just doesn’t seem like anything all that new or fantastic.
Portably Gym Guy Jerry really needs to calm down, too.
I think the doll was a sop to the Afro-American audience, which is a high part of the demographic for all reality shows.
And the kid with the air conditioner was a sop to the audience part drawn to tears and hugs and the agony of defeat. Because it just wasn’t a new invention at all. I’ve had various plug-in air coolers and air conditioners in my cars for the past 40 years. None you would trust with the life of a dog. That part was just a kid’s naiveté.
The show is in the hard-to-watch stage now as they milk each segment over and over. It’s a shame they simply didn’t air about 100 inventions for 2 minutes each, giving each inventor a slice of fame and a chance for independent funding. Instead, we lots of people lined around the block, and only a few things presented over and over, plus now the painful-to-watch tears and hugs and agony of defeat segments over and over.
I came for the inventions and switched off for the tears and hugs and agony of defeat.
It bugged me that no one ever asked what the portable gym weighed.
Because who in the world is supposed to be the market for the thing?
People who don’t travel regularly don’t need one.
People who do travel regularly, well, how are they travelling? Do you really want to use up your plane baggage allowance on a weight set? Even if you don’t mind paying for excess weight, how about that one-carry-on bag rule? I bet you’ll still want the security of having your ‘basic’ carryon with computer & change of clothes. Do want this enough to wait around for checked luggage?
Especially since any half-way decent hotel has some sort of exercise room and even if you frequent Motel 20 Bucks establishments, there are exercise clubs all over and I never met one that didn’t offer 1 day ‘trial memberships.’
Which sort of brings it down to travelling salesmen… How many are there?
Bad idea. All around.
What he should have developed was a ‘converta-gym’ thingy. Something that looks like an ordinary side table or chest of drawers when closed, suitable for your living room, say, but which opens in just seconds to reveal a weight bench or treadmill or something. There are way more people who’d like a way to work out at home but who don’t have a spare room and don’t want their apartment to look like Jack Lalane lives there.