Internet-Enabled Coffee Machine Demonstrates Singapore’s Ability to Facilitate Business Ventures

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Here’s a pretty cool idea. Working with Strawberry Frog, The Secret Little Agency and Tellart, EDB, a Singapore-based government group which promotes the city as a business destination debuted The Coffee Connector at The Economist Big ReThink Conference last month.

Leveraging the notion that grabbing a cup of coffee is a great way for a couple of people to build a relationship and coupling that with EDB’s goal of facilitating companies to create successful business ventures, The Coffee Connector demonstrated the value of strong relationships. Each party is then rewarded with a freshly brewed cup of Highlander Coffee and the beginning of a lasting connection.

The Coffee Connector is an ingenious, internet connected coffee maker that only works when two people are standing together squarely in front of the machine. In order for the machine to dispense coffee, the two people must introduce themselves by entering their names and indicating their interests.

The Coffee Connector is, of course, a metaphor for EDB’s purpose and intent which is to present Singapore as a place for global companies to come together and connect in meaningful ways.

Coke Offers Israelis 3D Printed Versions of Themselves

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To promote Coke’s new mini bottle in Israel, Gefen Team came up with a mini-me themed promotion that nicely encapsulated the mini-ness of the new bottle.

Using the 360 degree scanning and 3D printing technologies, the agency built a 3D printing lab inside Coca-Cola’s main factory in Israel. The scanner captured human figures in a couple of minutes. The agency then transformed the photographic images into a 3D model and high resolution 3D printers were then used to create mini-me versions of participants.

People were invited to participate in the activity and create their own virtual mini-me versions using a mobile app. Gamifying things a bit, each participant had to make sure their mini-me was happy by taking care of its basic needs (Tamagotchi-style) and its social well-being. There was even a virtual mini supermarket where people could buy more food for their mini-mes.

Users who participated in the activity were invited to the Coca-Cola factory, where they underwent a 360 degree full-body scan and received the 3D printed mini-me version of themselves within a few hours.

Coke FM ‘Magazine Dock’ Solves iPhone 5 Docking Problem

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Very, very cool. To celebrate the one year anniversary of Coke FM, the brand’s online radio station, JWY Brazil turned an issue of Brazilian teen magazine Capricho into a speaker dock for an iPhone. With some simple die cuts, the agency turned the magazine into a lasting branded element. Well, at least for those who can’t afford a real iPhone dock.

With the new iPhone making every existing docking station obsolete, this iphone magazine dock may have a longer than expected lifespan


Cancer-Stricken Man Sells Ads on Urn to Pay For Cremation

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Aaron Jamison was diagnosed with colon cancer a year ago and has recently been given three months to live. He’s selling ads on his urns to cover the cost of his cremation.
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Wait, What? Who Did I Meet Last Night?

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Ever wake up in the morning and have no idea where you were the night before?
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Oh Look! Threesome Marketing Snuggie-Style!

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Look. It’s like a Snuggie for booth babe marketing.
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Dude, Where Are the Holes?

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So you’re out with your friends and you find yourself at the bowling alley. You go to pick up a ball and…WTF…there’s no holes on the ball for your fingers

Meet 50 Cent, Strippers on Wheels, NBC’s Olympic Ad Hopefuls

– 50 Cent and vitaminwater in the lab working on free iPhone apps and a chance to meet Fiddy, I said Fiddy. – Swing by NBC and pick up a 2010 Winter Olympics slot or three. – RuPaul is back….

Maliboom Boom Mix Madness!

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Release your inner island. Get your inner DJ on. DJ. Any of these *yawn* work for you? Malibu Rum continues the island vibe of its spots, its most irreverent of spots, in this Radio Maliboom Boom DJ Drink Mixer thing.

Elmex Toothpaste Helps Fight Cavities By Promoting Cavities

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Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive in Tel Aviv did this bus promotion where 600,000 tickets were given out. As each rider takes a trip, the card is punched and voila: You have a cavity. Hmmm. One of those things that looks cool until you realize, do I need to see a growing number of cavaties?

Monday Means More Madness From Meat Puppet Minds.

Did you expect less from Diesel? I know you didn’t. The latest launch work from Legs channels everyone from David Lynch to Led Zep for Diesel’s new scent Only the Brave, (with accompanying site isbrave.com).

‘Kinda Sutra’ Exploits Reproductive Trial-and-Error

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This isn’t actually an ad, but oh, it’s cute, and good testament to how our parents and friends can fuck us up before (and maybe after?) age five.

Rhea Scott Talks Music Videos, Little Minx, Exquisite Corpse and Fresh Underpants

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I recently got to sit down with Rhea Scott, Ridley Scott’s daughter-in-law. (Little Minx’s PR guy related that bit of trivia to me about four times, which is why I’m mentioning it up-front.)

Seat Savers Help Philadelphia Boost Nightlife

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Sometimes you walk into a bar and you want everyone to pay attention to you.