Deodorant manufacturer Right Guard wanted a novel solution to market their product and they came out with Pitvertising. The actual theme of this Pitvertising is that the ads are displayed on the LCD which is placed in the shirt below the person’s armpits. Rightfully a novel solution but may not be a successful one. Worldwide advertisers take note of this new term and keep it handy if you were to inpire the idea for your own product.
Here’s a different kind of robot. The Begging Bot as it is named plays a fusion of spinning motors of hard drive and floppy disk and then kicks open the CD-ROM drive to ask for some money. A brainy beggar creator, I must say!
The Camel brand of cigarettes are quite famous and well known for the look of its packaging. Now just replace the bundle of cigarettes in the packet with a numeric keypad and you get a cool corded telephone. What’s more? It slides just like a pack of ciggie. Selling at $49 a piece, can be fun for non-smokers, as they can now flaunt a camel and talk from it too.
Ahem! I don’t know what to say about this but rest assured weird products sell only in Japan. A dairy in Japan will be selling milk known as Adult Milk which has high stress busting values. The Melatonin content in the milk helps to reduce stress and in this milk, it is 3-4 times more than the normal milk. The idea is no doubt unique and somewhat strange but will they have any takers considering the milk price of 5000 Yen ($43) for a 900ml bottle? I am already stressed out.
The milk is taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn as they discharge a lot of a stress-relieving hormone called melatonin during the night.
Japan is the mecca of gadgets. Or I would rather put it as a mecca of quirky gadgets. The image you see above is a headphone resembling hair growing device. The KeUpper has to be worn as a headphone and the spikes sit on the head. Ouch! The spikes then magically do something to make your hair grow. It is surely a pain on the head as well as the pocket. It costs $1000.
For all those who have always desired to own an Apple notebook your wishes will come true. And that too for free. All you need is one Apple (doesn’t matter if its half-eaten or not) and some tape to stick it. Do it just like this guy did and congratulations now you own a REAL APPLE notebook.
This interesting iPod tale comes from Berkshire, UK. Apparently, The Fat Duck, a restaurant will now be serving iPods with their food. Why? Heston Blumenthal, the owner of the restaurant reckons that listening to music while eating enhances the eating experience. Thus, a new dish called “Sound of the Sea†will be served with iPods.
I did a series of tests with Charles Spence at Oxford University three years ago, which revealed that sound can really enhance the sense of taste. We ate an oyster while listening to the sea and it tasted stronger and saltier than when we ate it while listening to barnyard noises, for example.
We know Apple’s remarkable achievement of selling more than 1 billion iPods and also its widespread reach. To prove its popularity, here is an image of a tribal woman holding the chic music player. The woman comes from Mursi tribe which resides in Ethiopia.
