I have no idea if this is genuinely something put out by McDonalds in Japan and, if it is, I’m really loathed to share this. But, this is just so absolutely insane that I must.
Please don’t watch if you have epilepsy, you are of a nervous disposition or you hate clowns.
Thanks Bhavic.
The BBC have unearthed the top gadgets at last week’s Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. One of the most interesting is from a company called Eye-Fi have developed memory cards that actually has Wi-Fi built in. An app on the card can even store your passwords and upload to sites like Flickr and Photobucket. It’s available in the US but not in Europe until later his year.
I predict a big buyup of crap digital cameras on eBay.
Mental.
Cheers Daryl.
As ShockAbsorber is one of our clients, I feel it important to keep abreast of news in the lingerie sector. So here’s a great little app from Knicker Picker that allows you to view models wearing the underwear you might be thinking about buying. There is definatitely something voyeuristic about it
Via: Adverblog
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on America’s 60 Minutes last night. Apparently this is a popular show that a whole bunch of people in America watch. It’s presented by an old lady who pretends not to know anything about anything. I didn’t watch the programme myself but I did watch the bit about Mark Zuckerberg on the 60 Seconds web site. He’s a curious fellow with a nerdy demeanour which almost seems disingenuous. Anyway, take a look at the specific bit and come back to me when you have.
EMI is sacking over 2000 people in an attempt to streamline operations since it was purchased by Terra Firma Capital Partners in May 2007. Heading up the action is Guy Hands, far from being your average record industry exec, Hands is a workaholic banker with dyslexia who made a few quid (about 200 million) with a chain of pubs and is best mates with William Hague. Read More »
There’s a prototype mobile phone from LG knocking around at the moment. There’s a YouTube video below and there’s an article on Engadget here.
It’s a bit chunky and the interface is straight out of Tron.
But I’m guessing it’s not going to hit the market for another 20 years. Here’s one from Hyundai that looks a little less Knight Rider.
Overall, it’s a pretty cool concept but the execution is going to be fairly difficult. Presumably you would need to have people on loud speaker constantly, the method of control is going to involve some form of tiny pen that you’ll lose when drunk or extensive use of Mr Pinky. Unless of course you use the scroll wheel that LG have opted for, meaning you have to scroll a hundred time to get your mum’s phone number to come up. Overall, it’s a wet dream for most boys-who-like-toys but a nightmare for a product developer.
Creds: Dickie.
Wired’s Scott Gilbertson is kicking off a fairly juicy rumor that Yahoo! is set to become an OpenID provider. I know I’ve bleated on about how wonderful life could be with OpenID and how it’s going to turn the Internet inside-out but you people need to listen up and listen up hard. One day you will be saying “Wow, remember the days before the proliferation of the decentralized single sign sign-on”. It’s so simple to be set up as an OpenID provider that as soon as Google, Yahoo! or MSN take it up, forgetting your passwords and signing into 20 different websites in a day will be a thing of the past.
I haven’t heard the phrase ‘culture jamming’ since Naomi Klein’s No Logo but there’s a fair bit of talk about some grousome appearances hitting the high streets of the LDN.
Targets seem to be large brands such as Vodaphone, Pimms and The Bee Movie. The latter is surprising given that it’s a movie targeted at children. Culture jamming can be humourous, intelligent and insightful but this is none of those things and doesn’t achieve much more than to boost the exposure of the brand itself. Here’s The Decapitator’s Flickr group where people are falling over themselves to gush about how incredibly ‘genius’ and ‘awesome’ it is. Culture jamming started in the mid-80s and doesn’t always involve outdoor media, it can be an event such as Buy Nothing Day. I’m not going to get myself into trouble by posting my favourites but feel free to check out this pool on Flickr. Another good place for culture jamming ephemera is AdBusters.
Apparently David Lynch doesn’t think watching movies on an iPhone is a very good experience. He doesn’t go into it in great detail but you get the gist.
Incredible bit of trail bike style street biking from a very talented young media student called Phil Feeney, he shot and edited the film too - the music is from The British Expeditionary Force. There’s a high-res version of this in mp4 format on his site too.