Media Dipping Into The Future...

A friend of mine recently exposed me to a new type of futuristic equipment that everyone might be using someday, which I thought was really exciting. Maybe the reason that it is so exciting is that it is where you will usually find me hanging out at random times during the day, and possibly because it contains food. For those of you who know me personally, you have probably guessed that this product is in fact a refrigerator. Believe me though, it is not your ordinary fridge. Plus, who wouldn't want this fridge to be invented?
Take a look for yourself...
http://inhabitat.com/zero-energy-bio-refrigerator-cools-your-food-with-future-gel/



Now my Media and Society question is, why does the media post this on the Internet? One of my thoughts on this question was that it perhaps helps the inventor get feed back from the public. Getting feed back could be a huge deal because they could soon be buying your product, and of course you want them to like it in the first place. If they don't like it, well, they are most likely not going to buy it unless they have so much money that they do not know what to do with it. I'm guessing that is usually a rare occurrence.

Another reason why they could be doing this is for public entertainment. Which, I don't know about anyone else that has seen this, but it certainly entertained me. The fact of putting my food into some green goo would normally repulse me, but for some reason it looks like a ton of fun. I wonder if you could put a person in it?

One other possibility is to gain other ideas for the new invention. If you had read about the actual gel-substance that will be used in this new refrigerator, you will have read that the gel is not exactly ready for our time. No one has actually tested this "gel" to see if it actually could work for this purpose. The guy making this fridge could be putting this out to the public to reach out to others for advice and knowledge, which could bring this new invention to the stores even quicker.

There could be more ways that the media puts articles like this out on the internet; I am sure one is for money, but there are probably others besides the ones I wrote about. However, the fact that the media puts out these articles amazes me. They are so interesting, and attract me to want to read about them more. Right there, the attraction of the reader definitely is one other reason that the media does this, and most likely it's the main reason. Their goal is to get our attention so that we will read more of their articles, which in turn, always brings them a profit.

So there you have it folks! In writing all of this I finally answered my own question!!