This is from www.gizmodo.com (parent blog of Nick Denton's million making www.gawker.com)
Obviously they published it as a joke. But they published it!! Along with the following little text:
"Sony expects to sell "hundreds" of these devices within the first year, effectively doubling their music player sales."
'Chanel Develops Durable, Low-Cost Perfume For Third World'
... found on www.core77.com, an industrial design blog.
It actually first popped up on the dubious www.theonion.com.
There was a fair amount of shocking details given as well:
PARIS—Fashion house and perfumer Chanel, famed for its iconic, $300-an-ounce No. 5 scent, announced that it has created a cost-efficient fragrance for the Third World, one specifically designed for the rigors of dry, dusty, less glamorous environments in the Southern Hemisphere.
Chanel chemist Robert Geneau, adding that organically musky, smoky, and earthy tones had been rejected because the scent's intended users most likely had too much musk, earth, and smoke in their lives already. "3rd has a bright, grassy base, like a fresh breeze after a rain—a very exotic scent for our target customer. There are also notes of cocoa, citrus, spices, and other things our customer sometimes raises and harvests for foreign export, but rarely gets to savor herself. Captivating, and for a fraction of the cost of high-end scents available in the West, 3rd is just the economic miracle developing nations need."
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