Monthly Archives: December 2007
You On A Gift Card – Custom Visa Cards
December 10, 2007 – Better than any themed Visa you’ve ever seen are these custom gift cards that let you upload a photo of choice for that extra special touch. The Custom Visa Gift Cards are great for those friends and family you’re not… Read More
Motorola – Be A Retail Visionary
December 7, 2007 – Ideal for retail environments, including mass merchandisers, grocery department stores, and pharmacy outlets, the MC17 empowers customers to speed-up the checkout process, locate items, check pricing, find complementary products, and receive personal recommendations and tailored promotions. The MC17 can also… Read More
Yamaha Motorcycles: Supermarket
December 7, 2007 – Following up on the shopping cart marketing trend previously posted, Yamaha has come up with their own clever advertising campaign. Their ad reads “Does it feel good? Continue to one of our retailers.” [Story Found at I Believe in Advertising]
Retailers On Shopping Spree For New Software
December 5, 2007 – The industry is already in the midst of a robust growth period, with sales expected to grow 10 percent in 2007 to $7.9 billion, according to AMR’s Retail Software Market Sizing Report. Sales will continue to grow over the next… Read More
WWF Paper Towel Dispenser
December 5, 2007 – This paper towel dispenser/advertisement, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, caught my attention. Their slogan is ‘Save Paper. Save the Planet’. They try to reinforce the direct correlation between using paper and destroying forests by showing the diminishing paper towel… Read More
Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Self-Detects Geeks
December 5, 2007 – The Wi-Fi Detector shirt does everything you’d dream it could do: detect Wi-Fi signals and share them, via your chest, with the entire world. Spotting both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, signal strength is displayed in real time (big animated gif… Read More
Heat-Sensitive Coffee Mug Tells You When It’s Safe To Drink
December 5, 2007 – Proving yet again that we haven’t run out of good ideas (as a species), the folks at Charles and Marie (we’ll call them “Charles and Marie”) have released one of the most logical items we’ve seen in some time. Like… Read More
Microtek Ships ArtixScan M1
December 5, 2007 – Microtek has started to ship its ArtixScan M1 flatbed and film scanner, while introducing the ArtixScan M1 Pro scanner that comes with a slew of new features. Both scanners feature Microtek’s very own Emulsion Direct Imaging Technology (E.D.I.T.) – a… Read More
Shocking Story: The Electric Eel Powered Christmas Tree
December 5, 2007 – Japan’s Aqua Toto Gifu aquarium has sparked interest worldwide with its E-tree… the “E” standing for Electric Eel! Renewable energy never looked so, er, weird. Call it Eel-lectricity if you like… but the Christmas tree set up just outside the… Read More