A few weeks ago I ran across a video of an incredible stunt - a guy slides down a waterslide and flies about a hundred meters over the ground and ends up in a small water pool for kids. The stunt was really incredible and it became an online hit in a rather small amount of time and the MegaWoosh mania spread across the entire Web with thousands of comments left at the bottom of the video. It is true that at first I was very impressed and considered that such stunt is simply impossible but I would have never thought that it is a hoax until I started surfing the web and reading discussions regarding the video. In the end I discovered that the video represented an ad for Microsoft Germany. I must admit that the video is quite realistic, though a lot of users said they’ve spotted the fake from the first view, mentioning these obvious proofs that the video is a hoax: 1. The splash should've been much bigger after the guy fell into the pool; in fact the pool would've exploded in high showers; 2. The guy slides down really fast, but when he leaves the ramp his speed slows down; 3. The most striking was that nobody would've survived such a stunt, since the speed was high and the garden pool for kids was really shallow and small. The thing is that the world market is becoming tougher and more competitive, whereas over the last ten years or so the tech market registered significant changes, with lots of new devices entering our every day lives, the main player on this ...