Combination blender and telephone
by Tom Myers, Art/Not Practical © 1998.
The first blenderphone was created as a wedding present for Seattle actors Brian Faker and Peggy Poage.
I don't know what they did with it, but the blenderphone was a riot at the wedding.
Since then, many blenderphones have been inflicted upon the world in various ways. Some sold to friends, some to stores.
Conan O'Brien, of "Late-Nite with Conan O'Brien" showed
the blenderphone (spring '95) on national TV.
"This doesn't make sense," he said.. Then he tried to make a stuffed dog drink a margarita.....
Magic Johnson, hosting his new (national TV) talk show called "The Magic Hour" showed
the blenderphone on June 20, 1998.
Magic had a lot more fun with the Blenderphone, and of all the strange gadgets he had there, the blenderphone got the biggest laughs.
Howie Mandel, played with the blenderphone on his talk show called "Howie Mandel Show" on January 20,1999.
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Howie clearly enjoyed the Blenderphone, but regrettably started punching blender buttons while he was
supposed to be waiting for it to "ring". As he frappe'ed his tomato and banana concoction, his staff backstage (who had called it with a cell-phone) was yelling "let it ring!" while the crowd was yelling "yyyuuuuccckkk!" So neither Howie nor the audience ever realized that the blenderphone "blends" in response to a telephone call. Oh well, so it goes in the fast and furious business of TV production........
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BBC Hot Gadgets showed the blenderphone on primetime TV in London.
Fox TV showed the blenderphone on "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith". (7/10/00)
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One was sold to a division of Microsoft, called BLENDER, (which blends multimedia production) for
the front desk. Newsweek Japan magazine, was at Microsoft
rooting around for details on Windows '95, but instead discovered the blenderphone. (Newsweek 1995.7.3 Personal Computer Guide, p19).
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cover photo by
Newsweek Japan |
p.19: Some Microsoft
muckety-muck talking
on the Blenderphone.
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