Business Card for Tool-Using Guys

If you’re in a profession that involves tools, then this caliper business card will certainly get you noticed:

How great is this…

Wide Angle Lenses Let You Peep, Tom

We’ve looked at various camera and photography adverts in the past. This great advertising campaign from Omax, for their wide angle lenses, certainly gets an invite to the club!

Spying on the lunch picnic lesbians?

Sneaking a peek at the tourist tush?

Soaking up some the sight of holiday honies?

Omax wide angle lenses let you do it all I guess?

Rubik’s 360 is the New Cube!

As a kid the sight of a Rubik’s Cube always frustrated me! I simply never had the patience to solve it and no one cared to show me the “secret method”. Being a bit older, I may be up to the challenge, but as life would have it there’s a new toy on the block – the Rubik’s 360!

This sphere actually contains two other plastic spheres with small holes in them. There are six small colored balls inside of these, which you are to navigate successfully to their similarly-colored outer dome compartments. Once there, you have to keep them from falling out while trapping the other balls in place. Of course the most frustrating part is that you can’t just remove the stickers and place them back in the correct order.

You should be able to pick one up over here for about $15 (Roughly R120).

Samsonite Shows Mclaren-Powered Luggage

Bringing the oomph and precision of Formula 1 to travel bags, Samsonite has announced its union with McLarenSport to produce a line of luxury travel bags that will not only ensure safety and security but also add style to your traveling….

Just look at these stylish okes!

Apart from being lightweight and durable, the trademark of Samsonite’s collection, the new line of luggage presents a high-end wheel suspension system that absorbs the impact of bumpy ground to protect the valuables inside the bag, quite reminiscent of the trendy F1 racing cars, which protect the valuable driver inside.

Produced under the “McLarenSport Samsonite Black Label Collection,” the bags (starting at $326) will be launched this year at all Samsonite stores worldwide. How sweet are the little F1 wheels???

Levis Low Rider Adverts Rule!

Levi’s has really done a great job with these adverts:

Not only do they get the message across, they also build amazing brand association.

Kudos!

Chinavasion Cam With 21x Zoom Telephoto Lens

When you want to see what’s going on in your neighbor’s apartment you can simply get yourself a nice telescope or a high-quality pair of binoculars. But what if you want to record those ‘moments’ without having to spend thousands of dollars on a high-end video-capable DSLR with a nice telephoto lens?

Well, you can go with Chinavasion’s far more affordable Avatar digital camera instead:

The most obvious feature is its 21x zoom telephoto lens which is hopefully removable, otherwise you’re going to have a heck of a time finding a camera case for it. And besides capturing stunning 2MP photos, the Avatar can also capture 640×480 videos at a PAL-friendly framerate of 25fps. Media can be stored on the 1GB of internal storage, and a microSD slot is also included making the thing actually usable. And like pretty much every single device with an LCD display that Chinavasion sells, the Avatar can be used as a media player supporting everything from Divx movies to MP3s to even .TXT eBooks. Nice!

What’s Wrong? Get Help…

This is what Help Remedies had to say about their awesome product designs:

“Our packaging is made of molded paper pulp and a bio plastic made primarily of corn. We use these materials because they are interesting to look at, and they are compostable—which means one day, they might become part of a large tree. Maybe you can cut down that tree and make it into a speedboat.”

Isn’t the packaging and branding just great?!

Panasonic Too Late With Lumix Ad

Panasonic has jumped on the face recognition bandwagon with their advertising. The message is smart, but it’s a pity…

…not only are they too late, but also less effective! Remember the adverts showing how the Nikon S60 Detects 12 Faces? Check them out!

Don’t Be Late for the Gun Show

This is brilliant! It’s an alarm clock that won’t stop buzzing until you’ve done 30 reps in the morning. Now it may not be the heaviest weight, but if you take it seriously, maybe you can give those biceps a little more meat in the mornings…

Get the 1.8kg Shape Up weight over here for $27 (about R230).

Weird Al Tells Tear-Yanking Jackson Story

Weird Al Yankovic, the legendary pop music parodist, has written a touching remembrance for Rolling Stone about the passing of Michael Jackson.

Yankovic, who parodied both Beat It (Eat It) and Bad (Fat), reveals on the magazine’s website that Michael was a gracious man who didn’t mind being poked fun of and was an avid fan of Weird Al’s movie UHF.

Writes Yankovic:

The first time around I pursued Michael Jackson about a song parody, it was a shot in the dark. We’re talking about the most popular and famous person in the known universe, and here I was, this goofy comedy songwriter. He not only returned our phone calls, but he approved it. He thought it was a funny idea. Then when we did the second parody, “Fat,” he was nice enough to let us use his subway set for the video, so he’s always been very supportive.

The first time I met him in person was long after I had gotten permission to do “Eat It” back in 1984. There’s a contract somewhere that has his signature next to mine, proving that we are the co-writers of “Eat It,” which is surrealistic in and of itself. The first time I actually ran into him was backstage at one of his concerts, this was maybe four years later, when Even Worse came out with my second parody, “Fat.” I went backstage, and he was seeing a lot of people, but I brought along a gold record of Even Worse to present to him, and he was very gracious and thanked me for it and said some nice things. After the fact, I thought, “That’s probably the last thing Michael Jackson needs, another gold record for his storage locker.” Seeing him in person was amazing, it was otherworldly. He was and continues to be so iconic, it’s hard to even conceive of him as a human being. He always was bigger than life.

Our second meeting was a TV show taping. He was performing “Black or White,” and I remember Slash was onstage and I talked to [Michael] briefly afterwards. He told me he would play my movie, UHF, for his friends at Neverland Ranch, and he was very soft-spoken, very quiet, but always very friendly to me.

I considered parodying “Black or White” around that time. Michael wasn’t quite so into it, because he thought “Black or White” was more of a message song, and he didn’t feel as comfortable with a parody of that one, which I completely understood, and in a way, he did me a huge favor, because I was already getting pegged as the guy who did Michael Jackson parodies, and because he wasn’t so into it, I decided to go with Nirvana, which wound up revitalizing my career. I don?t know what kind of career I would have today if it hadn’t been for Michael Jackson. In a very real sense, he jump-started my career. “Eat It” basically changed me from an unknown into a guy that got recognized at Burger King.

Excellent!