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Samsung’s awesome holo-display

Posted by PauloFurtado On July - 23 - 2009

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Samsung has a new phone coming out, but you would have never guessed it by the buzz surrounding the presentations the company has been giving. At product launches in London, Dubai, and Singapore, Samsung partnered up with Korean design firm d’strict to showcase its Jet phone in a holographic-like interactive display that’s one part Star Trek Holodeck, one part Project Natal, three parts awesome.

(read more @ PC World and d’strict)

Here is the presentation:

And here is the ad film for the phone itself (which also seems awesome, by the way):

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Bleeding billboards for safer driving

Posted by PauloFurtado On July - 10 - 2009

Here’s a video of a billboard in Papakura, New Zealand, that bleeds when it rains. Rather scaring, isn’t it? Well, according to the ad agency that , it works, as there hasn’t been a fatality in the area since they started the campaign.

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