Category: Video

EVERY Tech Commercial Is The Same (Video)

Have you ever watched two ads from AT&T, Samsung, Microsoft, or just about any other tech company, and thought, “I’ve seen this ad before, but with different actors”. The fact is, they’re all the same! College Humor pointed it out with this poignant satire of a tech commercial, where everyone in the commercial literally spells out how cliche EVERY tech commercial is. Watch it,...

Digipod Turns SLRs and Film Cameras into Digital Cameras

A new wild product has popped up on crowdfunding site, Indigogo. The product, Digipod, turns old cameras, like the classic Minolta sRt 201 SLR into fully digital cameras, using nothing more than a pod inserted into the film slot. Even more incredibly, the pod costs a mere $200. In order to produce this, they need a minimum of 200,000 pounds (around $300,000) in donations....

Apple Releases Badass Mac Pro Cinema Trailer [Video]

In their usual grandiose fashion, Apple released a movie-like trailer for the new Mac Pro. Using “James Bond”-esque music, fast moving camera pans to show the beautifully sharp curves, and other cinematic techniques, Apple drummed up excitement. In the end, the Mac Pro transforms into fire, then earth, showing its magnitude. This ad is different from past mac ads, usually shot on white backgrounds,...

This 1993 Ad Predicted GPS, the iPad, and Movies on demand

One ad campaign from 1993 has proved itself to be incredibly predictive. The campaign, themed “You Will”, and produced for AT&T, predicted things like the iPad, GPS, videochattingm and more, all a decade before these things came into existance. “Borrowed a book from thousands of miles away”. Just as on the touch display in the commercial, we can now rent a book straight from...