(TrendHunter.com) The Swiftpoint Slider mouse from Simtrix is truly unique with an ingenious design. The mouse is designed to to be held between the thumb and index finger and slides right over the keys on your laptop, conveniently utilizing the whole keyboard as a mousepad.
According to the makers, “Swiftpoint tech…
A report from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology finds bloggers are less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with friendships. (Probably because, if not for blogging, we would have no friends.)
Imagine this. You send out a bunch of promo stuff: schwag, catalogs, merchandise. Every item is equipped with a small chip. Next, you create a TV commercial and insert an “inaudible 200MHz molecular vibration sound mat”. When you run the spot on TV, the inaudible signal activates the chip, which in turn jams the signal from your remote control blocking people from switching channels. When your commercial stops playing, the remote goes back to normal.
Welcome The XV2083 Remote Control Jammer. The video is below.
Too bad it ain’t a real product, but a campaign by a communications agency. Very convincing, though. The next version of the chip should also emit signals that block microwave ovens and suppress bathroom urges.
It’s not entirely science fiction, though. Here’s a video of a working TV remote jammer and instructions for building one, and a diagram:
Charles Handy, an Irish author specialising in organisational behaviour and management, used the stage NPR’s Marketplace provided him to call for reform.
The tall towers that house our corporations are the new palaces of our day, the places where real power resides, but those towers are full of paradoxes. Made of glass, you can’t see inside. They’re pillars of our democracy, but they are run as totalitarian states. Their names are reduced to a set of initials. Their leaders are unknown to those outside. They are accountable, for the most part, to other institutions that sit in similarly anonymous towers. To the average person, they are foreign entities shrouded in mystery. It is no wonder that we look at them with suspicion, touched with envy.
When you see it laid bare like this, it’s hard to justify what we in Adlandia often do. Namely, the putting of a pretty face and a nice voice on top of these lurking, shadowy entities.
(TrendHunter.com) “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” is opening at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2008. The exhibit will showcase legendary American superheroes and their influence on fashion.
The Incredible Hulk suit by Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck is said to inflate phallically in various …
The Takeover Panel has extended the “put up or shut up” bid deadline for GCap Media by Global Radio to 26 March.
LONDON – Dare has scooped the BMW digital creative account after a four-way pitch handled by the AAR.
LONDON – BMW has handed its digital creative account to Dare following a shoot-out against Profero and incumbent Altogether Digital.
Regardless of what has inspired you, as an industry, advertising has always prided itself on being the Ellis Island of corporate America — in a credentialed sense, if not in a racial or ethnic sense.
We wonder who got to drink all the beer before all those bottles went up.
Leave it to high fashion and Annie Leibowitz to give us a Louis Vuitton ad featuring Keith Richards.
(TrendHunter.com) Are you sick of reality modeling shows yet? I’m on my way, for sure, but I have to give the BBC props for getting a little bit creative in their casting. For one of their latest shows, they’re searching for disabled models for a show called Britain’s Missing Top Model.
What a refreshing change. No…
LONDON – The chances of a Global Radio takeover of GCap Media have increased after GCap failed to reject the latest £370m offer, instead asking for a crucial deadline to be extended.
(TrendHunter.com) Jordan (Katie Price) made a social statement at the launch of her new lingerie range for “George at Asda” at The Worx in London. She was joined by some of her biggest fans for modeling the line in front of the press, after putting the call out for everyday women to join and help her at the launching…
LONDON – Virgin Trains is gearing up for a review of its advertising, direct marketing and online accounts.
LONDON – Orange is reviewing its international digital creative account as part of a revamp of its marketing strategy.
This 1970s glimpse into McDonald’s Land looks like the result of someone dropping acid with H.R. Pufnstuf, and the trippy music extolling the virtues of “french fry thatches†doesn’t help. Not to mention that any kid in his or her right mind would be terrified of a cop with a giant, grinning hamburger face. There are logistical issues, too: If the kids spend too long in the burger patches or under the milkshake volcano, they won’t be hungry by the time they get to McDonald’s. But that’s McDonald’s fault for franchising someplace where their entire menu grows naturally.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
Havas’ BLM Quantum has unleashed a make-your-own-video (remember when we had simpler names for things?) contest on MySpace.
(TrendHunter.com) The United Arab Emirates has been producing some very creative ads recently and seems to be claiming a spot in the competitive world of advertising. These new City of Hope ads by TBWARAAD Abu Dhabi ad agency are a good example. City of Hope assists women facing domestic violence, a social concern w…
The United Arab Emirates has been producing some very creative ads recently and seems to be claiming a spot in the competitive world of advertising. These new City of Hope ads by TBWARAAD Abu Dhabi ad agency are a good example. City of Hope assists women facing domestic violence, a social concern w…
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