(TrendHunter.com) This is my kind of robot, not something that will take over our civilization and kill humans, just a robot to serve me and say cool catchphrases (such as “Bob is your uncle!”) when it gets the job done. El-E is is not designed to behave like a human; rather, its aim and focus is interacting with us …
One-line summary: Greenlite Lighting Corp literally gave away 32,000 CFL spiral energy-efficient bulbs to Microsoft employees!
Details: On February 28th, Greenlite Lighting Corporation gave away 32,000 Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs to Microsoft employees on the company’s Redmond Campus. …
(TrendHunter.com) Things are about to get a whole lot more interesting in interior design. We have already seen the invasion of LED lights into designs and products everywhere. Now we have the world’s first demonstration by GE of OLEDs printed just like a newspaper.
Basically, OLEDs are thin organic materials trapp…
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s the dish on your dish. It’s ugly. You try to hide it, but it needs a clear view of the sky. Your neighbors have one too. Ugly. Ugly. Ugly. Now with SatelliteDishSticker, you can make a statement or show your fun side. The sticker is made from high quality foil and won’t screw up the signal. F…
(TrendHunter.com) One-line summary: Greenlite Lighting Corp literally gave away 32,000 CFL spiral energy-efficient bulbs to Microsoft employees!
Details: On February 28th, Greenlite Lighting Corporation gave away 32,000 Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs to Microsoft employees on the company’s Redmond Campus. …
A new study by Mindset Media — the new propagandists on the block — finds hybrid car drivers are “more creative” (78 percent more likely) and “less dogmatic” than the rest of the population. Add to that: more open-minded,…
(TrendHunter.com) The HANNSMilano is a handbag TV combo conceived by HANNSpree. When we saw Louis Vuitton’s video handbag, we thought it would be a while before any other companies caught on, but I guess we were wrong.
“The inspiration for the piece came from the resilience of modern women,” BornRich said.
I real…
Being homeless already means living in brutal poverty. Increasingly, it also means brutal violence.
Fast Company interviewed Evan Williams, a.k.a. “Ev” about Twitter.
Here are a few highlights:
Q. Am I admitting my age if I ask why anyone would want to be that connected?
A. I don’t think it has anything to do with age. That’s the most common response from everybody: Why would I want to use that? Once they start using it, they kind of get into it. It’s something you have to experience.
It’s fun and sometimes useful to have a mechanism to send and receive these status updates. If you hear from someone — even something as mundane as eating a sandwich at this restaurant — then you get a picture of this person you’re interested in and what they’re doing at that moment in contrast to what you’re doing. It’s interesting in itself because of the real time factor. You get what some people call ambient awareness.
Q. Why did you call your company Obvious?
A. The best ideas are always those that are obvious in retrospect. It’s not about being clever, it’s having the breakthrough to see the obvious thing that wasn’t obvious to everybody. We want all our products to be very obvious. In the case of Twitter, it’s not quite obvious why to use it, but eventually it will be.
(TrendHunter.com) How much more stuff can be attached to an iPod? I half expect to read any day now that an iPod can launch a rocket into space. Can it? Can it?
The Sergio iPod turntable and mixer comes with two iPod docks which are attached to two separate speakers. You can use the center spin dial to do the spinn…
“There are many thankless jobs out there. This – isn’t – one of them,” barks this new ad, “Thankless Jobs,” for the US Coast Guard.
(TrendHunter.com) This is all kinds of wrong. A team of computer security researchers were able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.
“They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal — if the device had been in a…
Courtesy of Dead As We Know It, here’s more off-the-cuff advertising at (former) Governor Spitzer’s expense.
SHANGHAI (AdAge.com) — A decision by China's media regulators could derail a major campaign by WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather for Pond's, one of Unilever's biggest brands in China. The regulators have ordered TV stations and print media to cease running ads featuring Tang Wei, star of Ang Lee's sexually explicit movie "Lust, Caution."
Feel the strength of the sea.
Advertising Agency: ToroVazquezMora FisherAmerica, Ecuador
Creative Director: Luiz Duboc
Creative Team: Jorge Cruz, Fernando Franco
Released: March 2008
(TrendHunter.com) If you are still planning to buy an Apple iPhone, keep waiting. If you can wait until 2009 or even 2010, you could grab one that it will run the Intel processor like all the iMacs do now when the new phones launch with x86.
According to Charlie Demerjian at The Inquirer, “The iPhone is going to go…
Having sent us this contextual ad flub on a recent story, reader Eddie playfully accuses us of drinking the Hillary Haterade.
Creative Agency: AKQA
Executive Creative Director: James Hilton
Writer: Colin Bryne
Post Production: Smoke & Mirrors
Director: Dom Bridges
Production Company: Mustard
Media Agency: Cake
Check out the site and turn your mic on: http://www.testyourbreath.ca/
Creative Agency: Dentsu Canada, Toronto
President: Bob Shropshire
Creative Catalyst: Glen Hunt
Writers: Glen Hunt, Matt Williamson
Art Directors: Deborah Prenger, Carson Ting
Creative Director, Interactive: Michael Gramlow
Producer: Amanda Loughran
Account Supervisor: Stephen Kiely
Programmer: Relish Interactive, Toronto
Production Company: Sons and Daughters, Toronto
Director: David Hicks
Post Production: Crush, Toronto
Animators: Aylwin Fernando, Mark Irish and Chris Minos
Compositors: Greg Dunlop, Kaelem Cahill, Pat Moore
(TrendHunter.com) Instant ramen noodles are popular Japanese products and now people all over the world are slurping these down for a quick fix on a daily basis. They came in all sorts of flavors but now a new product from Japan, Cup Nude, would satisfy your appetite… sexually! The package looks like your ordinary…
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