The Unboxing Phenomenon
The simple act of unpacking new gadgets is to some people almost like a
ceremony, worthy of documenting photographically.
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1. "Why Do People Post Gadget 'Unboxing' Photos on the Web?"
<http://www.popsci.com/gear-gadgets/article/2008-03/why-do-people-post-
gadget-unboxing-photos-web>
"In today's gadget blogosphere, there are few if any new products that
aren't upon release subjected to an immediate 'unboxing'--a thorough
and, some may say, pathologically obsessive series of photographs
documenting exactly what is implied by the name: taking a shiny new
object out of its multiple layers of packaging, step by exhaustive
step."
2. An Unboxing Blog
<http://unboxing.gearlive.com/>
3. Flickr: items with the tag "unboxing"
<http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=unboxing>
Featuring the Apple //c unboxing:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dansays/sets/72157603835099525/>
4. "Opening the Windows Vista box"
<http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/2e680b8d-211e-41c5-
a0bf-9ccc6d7e62a21033.mspx>
Microsoft, maybe feeling a little left out, has its own take on the
phenomenon. They made it so hard to open the Vista box that they have
a support page on their site with photos on how to do it.
