Visiting the Popiel Collection

By Peter Rojas

IDFuel hit the Ron Popiel, um, retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center and reports back on the several decades of the master's surprisingly useful gadgetry to be found there. If you've never been awake watching infomercials at three in the morning, Mr. Popiel's oeuvre includes such classics as the smokeless ashtray, Mr. Microphone, the Chop-O-Matic, the Mince-O-Matic, and the Corn-O-Matic. Though, we have to admit that until we actually saw this photo of the Pocket Fisherman, we'd always assumed that its existence was apocryphal.

[Via BoingBoing]

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