South African vending machine gives you free coffee when you yawn [Video]
Vending machine in airport uses a camera and facial recognition to give free coffee to anyone that yawns.
Tag Archives: marketing
Submarine surfaces in the middle of the street in Milan [Video]
Sound too weird to be true? Watch the video yourself.
Instagram catches advertising fever, aims for business growth
Facebook acquired photo sharing service Instagram has now caught the advertising fever, which was most likely. We bet this fever is long lasting as Instagram has already cleared that the adaption to advertising is for its own busi...
Delta Airlines to purchase 11,000 Microsoft Surface 2 tablets for pilots
Delta Airlines plans to purchase 11,000 Surface 2 tablets from Microsoft for its pilots. Apparently, the airline wants to replace paper flight books, and the best way to do so is to equip each and every pilot with a Surface 2 tabl...
Microsoft finally creates not-crappy Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 ads
Does Microsoft finally gets marketing? Hard to say, but it looks like they may have learned a thing or two from the past because the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 advertisements are not gut churning. The past adverts for the Sur...
Apple launches commercial for iPhone 5c, calls it ‘Plastic Perfected’ [Video]
Regardless of how you might feel about Apple’s decisions with its two new iPhone models, you have to admit that advertising is one thing they can’t seem to get wrong these days. The new ad for the iPhone 5c, “Pla...
First McDonald’s had Happy Meals, now it’s adding Happy Tables
This is pretty neat. Since McDonald’s has long established that kids (and I) absolutely love Happy Meals, the company is now introducing a little experiment called the Happy Table. All you need to do is plop down an NFC-capa...
LG launches balloons with vouchers for free phones, ends up injuring 20 people
To promote the launch of its new flagship phone, the G2, LG held an event in Korea called the “G in the cloud.” Hundreds of balloons were launched into the air, and attached to each one was a voucher for a free phone G...
HTC launches new ad campaign starring Robert Downey Jr. [Video]
Last week, HTC released a video hinting at “Big Things Ahead.” Some speculated that it was a prelude to an announcement of the HTC One Max, a 5.9-inch version of the company’s flagship phone. But the video was ac...
.COM was almost named .COR in the early days of the Internet
If certain events had taken place, Dot-cor (.COR) would have been the most used domain suffix in place of Dot-com (.COM). Just imagine visiting your favorite website with the dot-cor suffix? That would be a bit weird, but not as b...
WSJ says Google will spend $500 million in marketing blitz for Moto X smartphone
You read it correctly — that’s $500 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, that’s the amount that Google has allowed Motorola to spend in promoting their upcoming Moto X smartphone not only in the U.S. bu...
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 commercial for Iceland is the most insane thing I’ve seen this year [Video]
If you caught Samsung’s live stream for the announcement of the Galaxy S4, you might have found some parts of it a little strange. There were definitely some weird choices that went into planning that presentation but itR...
Motorola’s new Google-fied logo is revealed
Woah — definitely didn’t see this one coming. Right around the time Microsoft kicked off its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Google has somehow found a way to squeak its way into the news. What you’r...
Sony rubs it in Microsoft’s face with the brilliant ‘Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video’
The Xbox One, despite not being out yet, already sounds like it has a lot of hurdles to overcome. Using the system will require an internet authentication check every 24 hours, games can’t be lent to friends and it doesnR...
Domino’s Domicopter delivers pizzas via air drone [Video]
This is the Domino’s Domicopter. It’s exactly what you think it is and it is awesome. It isn’t actually in use yet and I’m not sure why this hasn’t happened yet, but a future where pizza deliveries ar...