Euricase Multimedia Ring Box: Powerpoint Presentations are Forever
Trusting in a gadget during one of the defining moments of your life might be risky, but if you want your marriage proposal to include a multimedia presentation, the "Euricase" with built-in LCD screen and speaker that can play video and display pictures, is the right ring box for the job. I want to pooh-pooh the whole concept, but it's not super expensive—$250—and in the hands of a talented suitor could be part of a fun experience, showing pictures from your courtship while playing the song to which you first danced.
Okay, no, that sounds horrible. If you're geeky enough to buy this box, you should probably hire someone with more taste to help you put together the presentation. And keep it short! Don't make your partner wait until a commercial break to say yes.
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"Okay, no, that sounds horrible. If you're geeky enough to buy this box, you should probably hire someone with more taste to help you put together the presentation. And keep it short! Don't make your partner wait until a commercial break to say yes."
Yeah, pretty geeky. I can see the appeal, but it does seem rather silly to let a tiny screen do the talking when you are there in person. It's kind of like using your cell phones to talk to one another even though you are sitting right next to each other in a quiet place. Think about if from a professional persuader's perspective: advertisers. If for the same money and effort they had their choice of trying to sell you with a tiny ad on a tiny screen or a guy in person, they'd choose the guy in person.
One the other hand, I like geeky...I'd probably use the screen as a gimmick to accent the ring rather than make the pitch, perhaps a poof of smoke and God-like hand reaching in frame to point at the ring, a TelePrompTer and voice urging "Psst...Just say "yes... :-)", or a swirling "hypnotoad," or some other even more geeky sort of implementation.
However, I couldn't find how you get the video on the thing. The ridiculously short FAQ alludes to software for putting movies on the thing but doesn't talk about it or mention stuff like Mac or PC. Ideally it would just act like a mass storage device and play what ever you put on it but I doubt it is that simple...