(TrendHunter.com) Designer Paul Scarfe conceived this glass cone-shaped speaker he named “Aura”.
The cone shape is believed to be a sound enhancer and an effective way for sound to travel and project itself.
“By using molded glass to focus and precisely deliver the high frequencies(treble), and the standard bott…
Uh Oh. Another PR faux paux.
(TrendHunter.com) ProsperPC is a home system designed to monitor the status of your home.
Every room in the house and utilities like lights and water throughout the home are monitored to keep waste in check and to regulate the use of energy. ProsperPC will alert the home owner of any potentially dangerous activitie…
(TrendHunter.com) I love these Pearly Kings & Queens which are popping up all over London – and are by a street artist known as Pure Evil. This work, found on a church hoarding, infuses the London tradition of the Pearly Kings and Queens (started in 1875) alongside stencil sprayed butterflies whose wings spell out Pu…
(TrendHunter.com) These are called Hero Tattoos and what they do is fake street cred.
So for example, If someone takes a nasty, embarrassing spill and sustains a cut that needs stitches, they can get a tattoo claiming that they got the scar fighting off an armed robber who slashed him with a knife. I’m making stuff…
(TrendHunter.com) Is this for real? If I were a male of the species, there’s no way I would be able to use these things. As the guy at weird things puts it: “It would be like pissing on the Virgin Mary all the time. So sick.”
That tangle of head and hair spilling out of a corset is Fergie posing for Mac’s VIVA GLAM campaign, which sells lip gloss to fight AIDS.
Take-Two board rejects EA bid
“Grand Theft Auto” publisher Take-Two Interactive told its shareholders Wednesday to reject a $2 billion buyout bid from rival video game company Electronic Arts, saying it’s not enough.
But in the same breath the company said it will explore alternatives, even combining with EA or other third parties, to maximize its value for shareholders. But it wants to wait until after April 29, when “Grand Theft Auto IV,” the latest in the blockbuster series, hits store shelves. The game is by far Take-Two’s most popular and one of the best-selling franchises in the industry.
The $26-per-share bid turned hostile March 13 when EA took the offer directly to shareholders. Take-Two’s board had asked for 10 business days to mull over the decision and that time ran out Wednesday.
Take-Two took several steps to prevent EA from going through with a hostile takeover. It adopted a 180-day shareholders’ rights agreement, also known as a “poison pill.” It kicks in if an outsider acquires 20 percent of Take-Two’s shares or if an existing shareholder who already owns this much buys another 2 percent.
Chairman Strauss Zelnick said the rights agreement “will not, and is not intended to, prevent a takeover of the company on terms that are fair to and in the best interests of all stockholders.”
Take-Two also moved back its upcoming annual shareholder meeting to April 17 from April 10 and amended its bylaws to give shareholders more time to nominate board members.
A representative for Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts Inc. could not immediately be reached for comment.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.’s shares have briefly climbed above $26 in recent weeks, but analysts are not expecting the offer to go much higher. The company said it has received other “indications of interest” since EA’s offer became public last month, but there haven’t been any “substantive discussions.”
Take-Two said it is willing to start preliminary talks, including with EA, before April 29 under confidentiality agreements.
(TrendHunter.com) It was rumoured that a series of Clear Channel digital billboards were hacked by an 18 year old graffiti artist by the name of Skullphone.
As of March 25th, 10 billboards in LA were displaying Skullphone’s logo (a skull talking on a phone) intermittently along with their regular ads. And you can b…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Spending on alternative media hit $73.4 billion in 2007, a 22% increase over the previous year, and will continue to grow, according to a study from research firm PQ Media, which also predicts that by next year alternative media will represent 26.6% of all advertising and marketing dollars.
That’s a headline you don’t see every day. From MyNews in India:
Most people picture Mahatma Gandhi as some gentle, fragile man who people followed because he was just so peaceful. Gandhi wasn’t an idle peacenik; he was a perceptive communicator who would have been right at home in today’s ad industry.
But the truth is he wasn’t just some sappy dude who sat around all day smiling. He was a sharp lawyer who had a mind for smart communication. He was non-violent, but not passive. He devastated an empire by taking residence in people’s minds. He knew how the media worked and how to get attention. He spread his message by causing peaceful civil disobedience that got talked about in international press and word of mouth. That’s the power of a story worth discussing.
Read the rest here. Who are the Gandhis in the ad world? Are you one?
(TrendHunter.com) This cute posable webcam that targets sports fans is absolutely adorable.
The Rodintech MPC-095 webcam comes in the shape of a cute robot-guy holding a ball. You can adjust the robot in different poses thanx to its flexible arms and legs.
As for the ball, you can choose between a football (both A…
(TrendHunter.com) Not all gadgets have to be an innovative breakthrough. Sometimes a simple convenient design might be a must-have that makes your life easier. The 4-Port USB Car Charger is one of these.
With most gadgets these days being able to charge via USB connection, the charger conveniently plugs into your ca…
(TrendHunter.com) If you are one of the many people who complain about the constant typos you suffer due to the iPhone’s lack of a tactile feedback keypad, we bring you a simple and effective solution.
My Touch Keys solves the problem by augmenting your iPhone with tactile feedback via a piece of plastic that clings…
Isn’t it fun to look back to the childhood days of your favorite baseball players? Sometimes but not when it involves 1970’s-era shorts and tube socks.
Yeah, that was kind of a stretch.
Here’s what happened.
(TrendHunter.com) Once again, with the idea of restocking our depleting resources, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Hole, Mass. are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves using sound.
The fish swim into a net when they hear a tone signaling feeding time. The system could eventually…
NEW YORK – Online media player company Roo is to offer consumers the ability to search videos for people using facial recognition, after signing a deal with Viewdle to use its ‘revolutionary’ technology.
LONDON – Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has parted company with its digital media agency i-Level and will hold a formal pitch for its online media planning and buying business at the end of this year.
In what is clearly a joke or some sort of clandestine promotion for the next greatest social network or some other entity, ncludr.com (get it? includer?) has launched
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