Interviews: Ask Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson What Won't Blend? 118
Reducing various items to a fine powder in one of his blenders earned Blendtec CEO Tom Dickson a cult following. One of, if not the greatest viral marketing campaigns of all time, the "Will It Blend?" series has been watched almost 221,000,000 times on YouTube. In addition to receiving many marketing awards, Tom and his blenders have been featured on The Tonight Show and the History Channel series Modern Marvels. He has agreed to take a break from pureeing household objects and answer your questions. As usual, you're invited to ask as many questions as you'd like, but please divide them, one question per post.
Re:When the Big Appliance in the sky calls (Score:4, Informative)
Cremated remains are already run through a cremulator [guardian.co.uk], to reduce obvious-looking chunks of bone into a fine powder.
"The remains are raked into a steel bin at the bottom of the cremator to cool, before being transferred into a machine called a cremulator, which contains steel balls that grind down the remains into a fine ash. [...] The cremulator may sound callous, but breaking down the remains is important because if you are going to have a scattering it means the remains can be dispersed as a fine ash rather than as bones, which is less distressing for the family."
A blender might also do the job.
Re:non-blended pen (Score:4, Informative)
Are you going to go for a rematch with the Tuff-Writer pen?
It would have been nice to include a link to their "Will It Blend" - style video [tuffwriter.com].