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Ford "gets" the issue of tangled iPhone headphone cables, advertises Bluetooth

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Ford "gets" the issue of tangled iPhone headphone cables, advertises Bluetooth

Some ads drive me completely nuts, but I think this one for Ford is quite clever. It displays 15 common knots, but instead of using rope it uses various bits of iPhone cabling, including the headphones, dock and USB connectors. Are you a lucky person who has never had a pair of headphones tie themselves up in knots? It tends not to happen with more expensive headphones with slightly thicker wires, but smaller earbuds and thinner wires always seem to get caught up in themselves, no matter how carefully they’re put away. Ford’s point is that Bluetooth comes with every new Ford car. While this isn’t Ford’s only ad, it’s Read more »

Cool British LEGO advert from the 1970s

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Forget CGI for the moment and take a look at this wonderful British TV ad from the 1970s for our old favourite: LEGO. I don’t know what TV ads are doing Stateside (or elsewhere) at present, but in the UK there’s a resurgence of ads from the 1970s and ’80s. I think it’s probably because the kids who grew up with these adverts are now in nostalgic mode and have kids of their own. Narrated by the late, great British comedian Tommy Cooper, it shows off the versatility of LEGO (assuming you have a lot of it) in a humorous way, with various LEGO creatures and objects pitting themselves against Read more »

British Sun newspaper tries to go Web 2.0 before offlining itself

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I find the latest TV advert by British tabloid paper The Sun quite amusing, poking fun at the iPhone and trying to convince us that it’s so much better reading a real printed newspaper than doing so online. They’ve even picked a voiceover guy who sounds very similar to Apple’s choice. It’s amusing given that the ultimate owner of The Sun, Rupert Murdoch, wants to delist his newspapers from search engines and charge for content, on top of today’s announcement that NewsNow won’t be displaying links to a load of British newspapers because of the Newspaper Licensing Authority’s pathetic licensing issues. Seems that “the must have handheld accessory for 2009″ Read more »