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July 18, 2003

One of the Best Headlines Ever

CNN is always coming up with silly headlines, but this one is one of their best (the article is pretty humorous too):

Little robots in your pants

Making sense of revolutionary nanotechnology claim

(POPULAR SCIENCE ) -- Dockers recently came out with a new brand of pants, the Go Khakis, which promise to keep your legs stain-free using revolutionary nanotechnology.

We couldn't help thinking that Dockers might be using the word "nanotechnology" more for marketing muscle than for true scientific purposes, so we called its customer service line to ask a few pointed questions. Here's a slice of the conversation. [CNN - Technology]

I can't help it. I love seeing people toy with customer support people. There's a point where scripts just don't help much and I think they really need to be able to handle those times.

Posted by snooze at July 18, 2003 1:37 PM