NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google and QVC are taking another crack at using bar codes to link print and online ads — but this time around, the bar codes can be scanned using a mobile phone.
(TrendHunter.com) The Thought Out Company has produced a hands-free iPhone holder called the NAJA King (pronounced NAHA). The King has a flexible, 3-foot coil that can be shaped and bent to your liking (or to finagle around toilet-paper holders). They even recommend wrapping it around your neck for a mobile hands-fre…
(TrendHunter.com) This gadget isn’t as exciting as the iPhone, but for those of us with masses of bear fur on our backs, the telescoptic iShave razor is salvation.
With this gizmo, there are no more muscle cramps from twisting our arms around our shoulder blades to get that last patch of hair. The iShave extends up…
(TrendHunter.com) This is a poster ad for Goodyear Tires featuring a scantily clad, rather mature model in a revealing pose. The accompanying text says, “Goodyear truck tires with max technology. The only thing in your truck that never gets old”. Pretty straight forward.
(TrendHunter.com) There’s no social message behind this design. The Fifi & Fafa Wall Hangers are just plain naughty!
These funky wall hangers, which are made from lacquered steel, will bring light humor and life to just about any bathroom or hallway area. They’re a fun addition to a bachelor’s place or for couples w…
(TrendHunter.com) While we may laugh at this monowheel car concept by designer Tilmann Schlootz, it has actually won a Michelin Challenge Design Award 2008. It will also be showcased at the “Hannover Fair†from 21-25 April 2008.
How does it work? Tilmann Schlootz describes it as, “The Magic Egg of Columbus, or…
(TrendHunter.com) Designer Meryl Smith created this bag for The Honey Space in Chelsea, NYC and I find something very wrong with this Louis Vuitton doggie bag.
And I’m not just saying that because its Friday night and I live in New York City and I should be somewhere downing alcoholic beverages as if they were brin…
PJA's Phil Johnson fantasizes about asking the executives at competing small agencies about their salaries, management structures and weak spots.
(TrendHunter.com) Culturegraph.com incorporates and creates pop culture graphs, which include flowcharts, calendars and maps, collectively on one website.
They monitored the massive Internet following that was started on Flickr “song chart meme” and wanted to incorporate this Internet sensation to focus not only on…
I’ve heard people complaining about these new “green” ads for Wal-Mart, but you really have to see them yourself for the full effect. Sure, Wal-Mart’s been talking about cutting down on its planet-raping for a few years now, but is this how you sell it? With each preachy TV spot, the call to action is, “If every Wal-Mart shopper, all 200 million of us, bought one of these, then the Earth would cease its inexorable descent into a strip-mined wasteland.†So, instead of showing that it’s following through on serious, long-term corporate commitments to eco-friendly practices, the company is just tossing the job back in the consumer’s lap. The ads get extra demerits for smug delivery, forced natural backdrops and a blatant rip-off of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s beautiful “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.†Check out the other two spots after the jump. Via Ads of the World.
—Posted by David Griner
(TrendHunter.com) How delightful are these sperm-inspired earrings? With their kewpie heads and sperm-shaped bodies, what else should a designer name them other than “Spermies?”
They sell for $25 on Etsy.com and they do look swimmingly on.
Breaking with a 112-year tradition, the Boston Marathon will put corporate ads on the start and finish lines of Monday’s race promoting its two main sponsors: John Hancock Financial Services and Adidas. “It’s not like they are up in the air, blocking anyone’s view or anything like that,†says Dorothy Ferriter, who heads the marathon committee in Hopkinton, Mass., where the race begins, 26.2 miles from the Back Bay finish line. I wish they’d change the course, because the runners go right past my front door, and all the spectators barbecue and toss their trash in the courtyard. Maybe the South End could host the race. Boston University could build the proposed bio-terror lab in my neighborhood instead—it’d actually be less disruptive. Rosie Ruiz once “won†the Boston Marathon by taking the subway. I’m with her: I’ll risk a quick grope over shin splits and dehydration any day.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Tired of other brands like Philips Norelco getting all the plaudits for groundbreaking and edgy work, Gillette has decided to get in to the “sex sells ” game.
(TrendHunter.com) I don’t know how I feel about this Ferrari cell phone. On the one hand, I love miniatures, on the other hand the phone looks kitschy as hell. But that’s just my opinion. The little Ferrari has 2.2 inch touch-sensitive LCD display, USB connectivity, MP3 and picture and video camera. This little toy w…
Given how much online gaming has cut into tabletop, pen-and-paper role-playing’s profit margins, it’s only natural that Dungeons and Dragons would fight back with an ad like this. (The ad is from a couple years ago—see the full image here.) It’s a funny blow struck in a generally annoying nerd argument, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Dream Theater vs. Dragonforce debate. And it makes a good point. If you want to kill Orcs with your friends, why not do it together? Just don’t run out of snacks.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
LONDON – Global Radio is teaming up with experts in the travel industry to launch a weekly travel programme on LBC hosted by Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent newspaper.
LONDON – Keith Jones, the former group leader of UK services at Acxiom, is to join data management company Qbase as its first commercial director.
LONDON – Global Radio is teaming up with experts in the travel industry to launch a new weekly travel programme. Simon Calder, The Independent’s travel editor, will host the weekly LBC show as part of Global Radio’s on-going strategy to focus on travel, both commercially and editorially.
(TrendHunter.com) The tankless Neorest AH by Japanese Toto is a water-saving hybrid toilet that uses both inboard and outside water sources of about 5.5 litres per flush campared to the wasteful 13 litres used by traditional tank-type models.
Other features include warm water and gentle warm-air drying built into th…
(TrendHunter.com) Last week HP introduced the HP 2133, a full-function, mini-notebook designed for students with a price tag of US $500. The Mini-Note PC allows students to bring it comfortably from school to home or to any place where they might continue studying.
At slightly more than 2½ lbs (1.150 gr), the HP M…
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