Do As Seen on TV Products Make Sense

Can you or can you not believe in those fantastic claims that the happy people on television make all the time on those infomercials? Let's take a look at a couple of those "as seen on TV products" that you're tired of resisting on the late-night infomercials, and see if they actually make as much sense as those hopped-up people say.

Okay, what is the one thing that most As Seen on TV products are really well-known for? Well, if you had to pick one thing, it would have to be how they like to come up with these ideas for easy and convenient products and actually show up on TV all hopped up with enthusiasm.

So let's take a look at a couple of those kind of products and see how good they are - the EZ Cracker to break eggs open with, and a new superglue they call UGlu, both which sell for $17, all included.

The EZ Cracker looks like a nut cracker - only larger, and made of white plastic. The design requires that you take an egg - raw or boiled - and that you place it in there. It'll help you just take the shell off off of hard-boiled eggs and and it'll help you beautifully crack raw eggs in half so that you can separate the egg whites with no fuss. At least, that's what they tell you.

The thing is, you should be able to take a look at how simple these designs are and know that the there's no way that they can help you do anything. With hard-boiled eggs, the EZ Cracker does nothing but pulverize everything. With raw eggs, it works about half the time. The rest of the time, the break is not clean and everything ends up in a mess.

While it is very obviously difficult to solve any problem with a very simple device like the EZ Cracker, the UGlu concept doesn't have to appear impossible-sounding. Their concept is that they wish to give you very powerful bonding abilities - ala Superglue. But they don't want you to have to mess around with fluid goop. They want to give you that ability in tape. The box comes with strips of double-sided tape, and it's supposed to be able to stick anything to anything. Without clamping.

UGlu isn't a bad product at all. Within reason, this works well. But like most other kinds of tape, it isn't all that strong, and it's certainly not going to stick to cloth or brick for anything. There's no way to use it to stick the handle back on a broken cup or anything. In other words, you'd be much better off going down to your local store and getting a roll of double-sided tape. It's less hassle.And that's the case with most As Seen on TV products.