Sony Playstation 3 ~ Universe of Entertainment

One of AdForum’s Top 5 ads this week is for the Sony Playstation 3.  It is black-and-white industry with cuts to color game scenes.  It starts out with this weird wheel of widgets, and they zoom on on these flowers on top that bloom and zoom into the stamen and pistil, which are actually a [...]

Academy of Dreams ~ A good Zune commercial!

Still hunting for a good Zune ad after this post and this post, I finally found one.  And it only has one tropical island in it:

We will let them get away with using The Shins album on the Zune, which contains palm-tree parasites on mega-microorganisms:

It’s called Academy of Dreams, and you can watch it below.  [...]

Zune mistakes itself for an iPod Touch

After the last Zune review, I set out to explore the possibility that maybe in Microsoft’s overall campaign they actually put together some really compelling ways of selling the Zune.  What I found instead was a commercial called "Ballad of TIna Pink" (or possibly "Welcome to the Social" if you go by the Zune website) [...]

Self-inflicted failure predicted for the new Zune

The new Zune models will likely fail upon their release November 13th.  This prediction is based on a new Microsoft ad, which is a single mega-multi-pager in the November issue of Complex magazine (pages 47 ~ 51). It’s 5 pages of colors unseen since your college gutter fiasco.  First up, we see that the Zune [...]

Woot sounds off on the Palm Treo 650 ~ did Palm mean for it to sound like "palm tree" or not?

Woot.com is a great little shopping site that features a cool, single, and highly discounted item each day. Woot offers mostly gadgets, but also has a wine site with good deals.
Yesterday they had a great little write up on the Palm Treo 650 that I wanted to share with you here. They gave [...]

Braun ~ industrial design surfing

I went out searching for a new electric razor because my Norelco is starting to suck.  I had seen an advertisement for a Braun that claimed it was getting rave reviews, so I went to their homepage.  One of the lead images was the one you see above.  Notice that they actually appear to [...]

AT&T to hold off on beachfront spectrum bid unless they can come up with a business launch plan

While AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson has been joining in on calling the 700 Mhz spectrum “beachfront” as mentioned in an earlier post on their purchase of largest current holdings of the spectrum from Aloha Partners, he says that AT&T will not be bidding in the upcoming auction until they see if there is an appropriate [...]

Sprint CEO quits after iPhone kicks butt ~ company returns to island ads to help fend off Google Phone

 
Since Sprint’s CEO resigned earlier this month after their Sprint Speed campaign failed to bring any return close to what they put into it, they have been going back to the old island website that I mentioned in a post a while back.  The banner you see above popped up on Forbes on an article [...]

Bang & Olufsen ~ Desert Escape in Ocean Paradise

It is always interesting to see how luxury companies try to tell people with resources how to live.  Bang & Olufsen recently sent out their 2007/2008 product collection corporate magazine, and on pages 2 and 3, they had this:

The most remarkable feature of this picture is that it has a desert scene from, say [...]

Can the Lobster pinch at the iPhone?

Designs that proclaim to perhaps take aim at the iPhone deserve a look, whether they’re very good or not.  Danilo Mangini a designer from Design+Wave in Italy has come up with this little number, which is called "Lobster":

I found this gadget by way of this post on the Times Eye blog, which has even [...]

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