As seen on TV

I was watching some fine quality programming on Cartoon Network (cartoons if you must know) and as per usual my very worth while time was wasted when my cartoon was interupted by commercials. But one of these commercials was to produce something so stupid (yes more stupider then the episode of camp lazlo I was watching) that it would force my hand. well not really force it, but push it towards the keyboard and watch sternly as I typed. The advertisement in question was one for the Ionic Breeze Quadra. Ah yes that magical machine that can make a dirty house smell slightly cleaner. Well during this commercial, Sharper Image made claim that the Ionic Breeze could change ozone and harmful chemicals into pure oxygen! wow just let that one soak in. Uh huh if you want to baste a little that would be a good idea. Ok marinated now? Good, Pure oxygen huh? A bit flammble maybe? Possibly a tad dangerous to the pets, the kids, or just about anything that normally functions in our atmosphere. That's right for 5 easy payments of 69.95 you can turn your house into the most posionous one to ever burn down in your area. Hey this little bit of ridiculousness has sparked my memory and caused the anger to burn up another huge mistake in the infomercial world. Does anyone else remember the Cold Heat Soldering gun (or soddering gun in American). That little slice of heaven was advertised as a mystical piece of technology that could heat up to temperatures hot enough to melt solder, but then cool enough to be touched with in seconds, and to prove this they showed them working on a project with the cold heat along with a very classy graphic of a themometer reading. The Themometer read 400 degrees when it was activated and actively melting the metal, but when it was turned off the temperature dropped to a stunning 0 degrees, WOW! that's right one second it can melt metal, and the next it can freeze water. You might not burn yourself with it, but you can give your friends some awesome frostbite. I would have imagined it would have returned to a room temperature. BUT and there is a Butt, (yeah that's right that just happened) the professionals at Cold Heat amended their mistake and made it say 68 degrees. Thankfully not enough to cause a spark and engulf your sweet smelling pure oxygen home.