Tech Society: Four weird things you can buy online

UFO Detector

Believe that another Roswell will take place soon? If yes, then here’s your gadget. The UFO Detector is designed to sense electromagnetic disturbances associated with UFOs and will signal their presence by flashing an LED and beeping. Buy this one now if you want to be the first to arrive on the scene of alien invasion or crashes!

Uranium

Yes, you really can actually buy a can of real uranium! According to Amazon, the uranium sample is for “educational and scientific use only” so please don’t buy this product in case you have insidious ambitions. And another thing: there’s no guarantee that you will not end up on the watchlist of the ISI after you purchase this product.

A Celebrity

Something’s in life are priceless — that’s what the catchline of the Mastercard ad says. But if your daddy is a multimillionaire, then there’s a price tag for pretty much everything — even celebrities.  Yes, it’s true. The Millionare’s Concierge will rent you celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio for your private events. The website is the online face of the “private party circuit”— a shadow industry that celebrities use to pad their pockets after probably splurging it on bling and cocaine.

A stranger to stand in line

Too lazy to stand in line to get your National Identification Card (NIC) at the local NADRA office? Well too bad you don’t have the privilege of paying a stranger to stand in line for you, like Americans do. Yes, Linestanding.com allows American to pay someone an hourly rate to go to a place and stand in a long queue, until you show up to switch places.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21^st, 2012.