Any seasoned watcher of Indiegogo and Kickstarter will know that there's a fairly standard formula for product pitches, from the vocal inflections to the disembodied hands. This gives a great opportunity for lampooning those start-ups that take themselves entirely too seriously. Here's Introducing Carrot, a new venture dedicating to bringing the orange root vegetable to the technorati. Not sure why
Apple may have slowed down in innovation department lately, favoring litigation instead, but one area where the company has excelled is in lending itself to parody. After last year's countless videos and images of an iPhone that resembled a bean pole, the new 5S is set to be announced and becoming the subject of comedians before even being unveiled. The
NASA Johnson Style is an educational parody of Psy's Gangnam Style, produced by the students of NASA's Johnson Space Center. It's brilliant and deserves as much attention as the original. I'm sure this will be all over the web in a few hours, combining great visuals and intelligent parody with the hottest hit of 2012.