Samsung is on a roll with their commercials poking fun at Apple fanboys. Their commercial that aired during yesterday’s Superbowl continued on the theme with a 90 second smorgasbord that featured The Darkness playing “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” while hordes of previously brainwashed Apple hipsters were freed from the line-up chains to celebrate in hyperbolic euphoria. There’s a Galaxy Note somewhere in there, but the overarching theme isn’t so much the features of the device as much as a not so subtle poke at fanboy mentality. It’s fun to watch.
Videos of people wantonly destroying things are a dime a nothing on YouTube. But this particular one is a little more spectacular, and a little more poignant than others. You have to watch it to understand. But if you can’t, just know that what you see is what happens when you throw a brick into a washing machine.
Or better yet, let me quote the top YouTube comment:
“At first, it was awful like watching someone getting tortured to death… as more and more pieces flew off, it became more and more poignant… then finally they threw a brick in to put it out of it’s misery and it finally ripped itself asunder, its motor screaming out its death cry to the heavens.”
This happened quite a few months ago, but just now the tech bloggers seem to have noticed… See, Slovakian violinist Lukas Kmit is pretty awesome. While playing at a Jewish Orthodox Synagogue in Presov a Nokia phone started ringing in the audience with the familiar Marimba tone “Nokia Tune”. Instead of completely halting his performance (as the New York philharmonic did recently), Lukas went with the flow and emulated the ringtone on the spot!
What you see in the above video is an animatronics baby created by one Chris Clarke for some soap opera. It’s also an absolute abomination. The top YouTube comment sums it up best: “They’re cute at this age, until they grow up then go back in time to try to kill you.”
This is one of those videos you have to watch to understand why I’m so impressed. Simply telling you these modern slot cars go fast means nothing. Fast usually means “pretty darn quick but I still can see what’s going on.” This… this is just mind blowing. The people controlling the cars? Cyborgs, no doubt.
Incidentally, the action starts about one minute in.
I really felt like making that headline sound even more hysterical, but then you might think I put something in my Cool-aid. So I kept it relatively level headed, knowing you’d appreciate my composed approach. See, not much is known about the video above aside from what you can see in it: the most awesome Lego creation on the planet! No, really… you have to watch it to believe it. It’s this Rube Goldberg-like device that shuttles oodles of little plastic soccer balls around this incredibly complex track in a seemingly endless sequence of mind bending Lego engineering. It’s just too beautiful to dare put any more words than this to it.
So just watch and come back here and tell me to my face that you even noticed 8 minutes go by.
Here’s a video of a lizard playing Ant Crusher. He’s pretty decent, for a lizard. We can’t help but feel sorry at his look of puzzlement every time he snatches an ant and fails to get full.
A while ago we posted a video of Samsung’s commercial for the Galaxy S II. We liked it a lot because, well, it was funny and true. It depicted stereotypical Apple customers lining up for hours for an upcoming launch, only to be made to feel stupid by the sudden appearance of Samsung’s device. Well, here’s another one. It’s just as clever and hopefully marks the start of a new campaign, like Apple “Mac v. PC”.
This is a short commercial for this outfit called Dodds Furniture And Mattress in Victoria, BC. The geek angle? It’s got a Star Trek theme. The better geek angle? It’s the most atrocious thing we’ve ever seen.
Here’s to solid production values and to what looks like Starship Serta… (Update: Upon closer inspection, it’s the U.S.S. Dodds)
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