Trends by Google. It’s about time this came out! Instant knowledge of whats hot in the Google search world instantly. I’m assuming it’s dynamic with a bit of a lag for processing, but either way, it rocks and is a killer for marketing researchers!
How freakin cool is this! It’s about time the experience in buying a car gets a facelift. Ya buy a car, a huge tower like vendor arm reaches up for your car, grabs its, and delivers it to you behind two glass doors. How sweet!
Some more smart and tactful ads for products you can try on straight from the magazine! Be fun if they actually popped out. Hip and wearable print ads… oooo.
Pictures after the jump!
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Here’s another clever combo of products. A waterbottle, solor panel, and LED light source. If your a camper of any sort, you’ll find this Sollight useful. Walk around during the day, let the solar panel charge, and light up the LED for 8-10 hours once you hit up camp. I’m not sure how bright it is, but I’ve seen some blazing bright leds lamps recently.
Here’s a rather ingenious little invention! An adjustable cap on hot sauce! I’d somewhat wonder how great this works compared to 2-3 separate bottles, but it’s good food for thought in the ever clustered world of options. Reminds me of Barry Schwartz and his book “Paradox of Choice”, where he explains, more choice or excessive choice can be bad!
If you missed Jennifer Lin rockin out her beautiful and inspiring piano skills at TED2004 then here’s your chance again to see and be amazed on her brief performance on Oprah!
While at GEL this past week, I ventured down to Lincoln center to say hello to David Blaine who is living in a tank of water for a week, then holding his breath under water for 9+ minutes monday night while escaping a set of chains. The tank is beautiful, his fingers are pruned like crazy, and the public is lovin it! The nytimes has a great article on the event.
I’m off to the wonderful GEL conference (good experience live) in nyc… I’ll be back in a few days!!!
update: highlights from GEL
- Google exit party, meeting people!
- Seth Godin, love the tie man.
- a chocolate high tour (sweet riots)
- exchanging BIG ideas with people
- seeing everyone from last year again!
This is an old fun material, but I just saw a demo of it again which reminded me how freakin cooooool it is. Ya add some powder to a cup of water, and va va voooom….it bubbles up into instant snow, or moreso some expanded pellets that look like snow. Check out the video and you’ll see the magic unfold right before your eyes!
Apples branding/marketing crews at it again with some fantastic work in their new “get a mac” ad series! I recently had a discussion questioning why apple was sucessful and why macs are not marketed as PC’s. The word “computer” was a bad word people did not want to affiliate with. Anyhow, I could go on and on about this, but apple was ahead of our thinking and explains all in this new promotion.
I’ve been running into a bunch of cool ads this week! Heres another one that adds a hunk of retro hair to any waiting passerbys. Be cool to see this on side bus windows! Hop onto the hair bus!
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love/hate shirt!! how cool is that!!!
