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VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on February 8th, 2010

We weren't sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) shows how it's bringing "the best of the internet" with VIZIO Internet Apps. We still need to see if its picture quality will measure up and whether the widget experience has gotten any better (read: faster) in 2010 to be truly convinced, but a slick ad never hurt.

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VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola buys Super Bowl ad spot

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 30th, 2009

Looks like Motorola's fully back in the game: not only does it have the hottest Android device you can (currently) buy in the Droid, word today is that the company's dished out somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million dollars for at least one Super Bowl commercial. It's been a while since Motorola last spent so lavishly on an ad campaign, so we're super curious to see what device the ad is for -- the safe bet is obviously the Droid, but CES could bring both the AT&T-destined Backflip and Sholes Tablet, so it's all up in the air. Our main hope? The return of HELLO MOTO.

Motorola buys Super Bowl ad spot originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh Snap! Guess What I Saw! [Image Cache]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 21st, 2009

Seriously, folks: Guess what I saw in this oddly catchy commercial for the Shack, because I can't figure it out. All I know is that Biz Markie is excited about something and that there's a squirrel DJ.

Ok, maybe the part about this commercial being catchy isn't such a great thing. Help me get it out of my head, please! [Thanks, OMG! Ponies!]




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On the First Day of Christmas, My iPhone Gave to Me… [Apple]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 17th, 2009

Apple takes advantage of all my weaknesses in their new Christmas-themed iPhone ad. It's not only whimsical and cutesy, but it mentions cookies, coffee, and several feet of snow. What more could a gal want?

Maybe I'm just so enamored with this commercial because my home smells of freshly baking cookies or maybe it's a general adoration for alternate versions of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," but I just think it's a lovely Christmas greeting from Apple. Even if the voiceover guy doesn't really sing. [TUAW]




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Your Coffee Is Ready [Steam]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 15th, 2009

How do you sell the idea of hot coffee to people freezing in a bus stop? You don't need much, but McDonald's built a steam machine right inside the shelter's marquee itself. Too bad that their coffee sucks. [DirectDaily]




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Chevy Volt gets its own song and dance, humanity weeps aloud

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 14th, 2009

And you honestly thought you'd see a decent return-on-investment from bailing these guys out.

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Chevy Volt gets its own song and dance, humanity weeps aloud originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gigabyte’s M1305 ad campaign says docking a laptop is like picking your nose

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 9th, 2009

External graphics cards may well be a rarity these days, but we're not sure if this simple fact justifies the launch of a grotesque and debatably heinous ad campaign. As you can so clearly see above, Gigabyte disagrees. In order to promote its Taiwanese M1305 CULV laptop cum external graphics card dock (housing an NVIDIA GeForce GT220 desktop VGA card), it released posters featuring a disoriented person poking his / her nose, each of which were presumably in the process of "doing some soul searching." Curious as to what these ads actually say? "How good is an expansion dock with integrated graphics card? Plug in a Gigabyte laptop and you'll find out!" Thanks, but no thanks Gigabyte -- we're currently preoccupied with flushing our memories of this visual disturbance you've just forced upon us.

Psst... two more posters after the break for extra raunchiness!

[Thanks, TheLostSwede]

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Gigabyte's M1305 ad campaign says docking a laptop is like picking your nose originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Shuttle gears up for CES with ‘we are not alien’ campaign, ominous video

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 8th, 2009

Shuttle isn’t exactly a company known for aggressive marketing campaigns, but it looks to be changing its tune a bit in the lead up to CES, and it’s not too hard to see who its target is. While the company’s main website is still as bright and cheery as ever, the newly launched We Are Not AlienbWare.com is an entirely different tale, featuring an ominous teaser video that mixes Shuttle promos (and metaphors) in with footage from District 9. Of course, it is a teaser video, so it’s light on any details, but Shuttle is apparently promising something fairly big for CES. Hit up the link below to check out the video for yourself, or if it’s giving you fits, just hop on past the break and mash play.

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Shuttle gears up for CES with ‘we are not alien’ campaign, ominous video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Latest AT&T spot calls Verizon’s 3G network a headless, sluggish wannabe

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 6th, 2009

We hate to point out the obvious, but it really seems that the marketing gurus at AT&T have this all wrong. Look guys -- no one's debating that AT&T's 3G isn't the fastest where available. We even saw as much ourselves. But Verizon's recent slew of ads have been calling out the size of your 3G network, which you absolutely can't argue is incredibly small when placed next to red-tinted competition. That said, AT&T is still fighting a battle to which no one has challenged it by employing the admittedly quirky Luke Wilson to show off just how much faster his favorite network can download a JPEG of himself compared to VZW. We've got to say that the results are fairly hilarious, but frankly, we would've rather seen that huge ad buy go towards a few more 3G towers here in the US of A. Vid's after the break, per usual.

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Latest AT&T spot calls Verizon's 3G network a headless, sluggish wannabe originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon ad confirms Droid is a not-quite pretty ‘racehorse duct taped to a Scud missile’

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 4th, 2009

There's something peculiar about Verizon's latest addition to its promotional Droid onslaught. Sure, we get the expected Mad Libs-esque hyperboles like "it rips through the web like a circular saw through a ripe banana," but other nods seem to indicate an acknowledgement that, well, it's not the prettiest of flagship phone princesses. "Should [a phone be] be a tiara-wearing digitally clueless beauty pageant queen?" (Wonder who that's a reference to.) Listen Verizon, trading "hairdo for can do" is great and all, but why can't we simply have both brains and beauty? Still, it's nice to know the fighting words haven't all but left the industry. See the ad for yourself after the break.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Verizon ad confirms Droid is a not-quite pretty 'racehorse duct taped to a Scud missile' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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