Half a pack of nappies, a statuette of Ralph Wiggum, a Fish Taco, a taxi ride to the airport in Xiamen, China and a trip to the hairdressers in Kabale, Uganda.
What do these things have in common? Only that they each cost around five dollars.
The Five Dollar Comparison is a collaborative project that invites you to send in your photos of things that cost about $5. Submissions are made by a Flickr group and there are already a good selection of goods both commonplace and outré up on the site.
But wait, you are thinking. What the yellow rubbery heck has this got to do with mobile phones?
Well, it’s a fair comment. The answer, apparently, is that this is a project started by an internal research and development team at Nokia. The team specialises in looking at current trends and “identifying and understanding future disruptions and opportunities”.
No, I’m not sure what that means either. It’s appears to be something to do with the fact that half the world’s population has a mobile phone and that this fact means we are all more connected. Asking what you can buy for $5, anywhere in the world, is an attempt to broaden the discussion about this interconnected world.
Or something.
It’s a fun site, anyway, and might spark a new thought or two.
But that’s enough of all this nonsense now, Nokia. Get back to releasing the bleedin’ Tube like you promised. Run along now. Sell it for $5 if it makes you feel better.
