It’s precisely the kind of story that so often goes viral after an event like this week’s debate: someone zooms in on a single video frame and starts spinning wild theories about cheating.
In an age of wearable tech, pulling a trick like that off is becoming increasingly difficult. It would be tempting, especially in an arena where Kamala had such an apparent home-field advantage.
The mics were supposed to be muted except when a candidate was speaking… There is disagreement whether Kamala was working from blank sheets of paper or something that had prepared notes.
But the juicy one centered on the photo of KamKamala’srring. Was that a regular earring or a wearable earpiece? It looks awfully similar to NOVA H1 Audio Earrings. Was someone feeding her answers?
It would be one thing for armchair pundits to magnify the photo and play Sherlock Holmes by comparing KamKamala’srrings with the publicly available photos of the tech in question. Just the News went a step further.
They contacted the company itself to settle the issue. Here, someone from the German manufacturer Icebach Sound had to say
“We do not know whether Mrs. Harris wore one of our products. The resemblance is striking and while our product was not specifically developed for the use at presidential debates, it is nonetheless suited for it,” Malte Iversen, managing director at Icebach Sound, told Just the News on Wednesday. “To ensure a level playing field for both candidates, we are currently developing a male version and will soon be able to offer it to the Trump campaign. The choice of colour is a bit challenging though as orange does not go well with a lot of colours.
“Currently, we are unfortunately out of stock and also busy preparing a lawsuit against a big Chinese tech company breaching our patents,” Iversen continued. “We are talking to investors in order to ramp up operations accordingly and are confident that we will ship again very soon.” — JTN
You gotta love an answer like that one. Unlike so many American companies that pick sides between Red and Blue, these guys just treated the entire American electorate as a potential customer base.
That’s a better approach than the Bud Light self-immolation.
As for the earrings: did she, or didn’t?
Well, arguing over that kind of thing is almost an American tradition at this point, isn’t it? We may have our guesses, but ours carry precisely as much weight as the one you’ll give to some very lively water cooler talk.
Cross-posted with Clash Daily
