Two items across the gutter (in the business section of the SF Chron, of all places) that use similar exercising imagery. One is literally for exercise gear; the other is a metaphor.

The left-hand ad is for a Soloflex gizmo that vibrates. And you stand it on and lose weight.

?

Sounds like something from The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices! Soloflex, supposedly a brand we’re familiar with (the first TV infomercials on film, the earliest users of infomercials for exercise equipment), offering ridiculous quackery!

The perhaps ironic/perhaps not references to God are also strange.

Tags: ad, advertising, exercise, exercising, God, newspaper, quackery, soloflex, vibrate, vibration, wbv, whole body vibration

One Response to “newspaper ad synchronicity/This Week In God”

No quackery, but a less than optimal product of whole body vibration platforms. Whole Body Vibrations is science backed by NASA by the way. The SoloFlex platform is on the lower end of product quality though and I am not sure about the God reference either.. The only one I found made in the USA and of top quality is the machine called the Hypergravity. They sell them on EBAY.
P.S. down a couple pants sizes since using mine.

Comment by WBVuser 08.23.06 @ 11:42 am

Reply