Parody of "Unboxing" video obsession

Have you noticed the growing number of unboxing videos? They involve a person narrating as he takes a box of some sweet new product and opens it to show off to the world. It seems like the most ridiculous thing in the world to most people, I'm sure.

But it's apparently an odd obsession for gadget geeks, according to this Wired handbook on five different types of geeks: fanboy, music geek, gamer, gadget guy, hacker, and otaku.

Even our sister paper, the Orlando Sentinel, uploaded a video of themselves unboxing Rock Band.

So it's officially a trend when someone makes a parody video. (to understand the references in the video below, check out this video and this video first)

ULTIMATE Unboxing from Scott Simpson on Vimeo.

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