Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:02AM Sure, the Commodore 64 was once the, dare I say it, Mac of its time. But just who should get a Commodore 64? That was the question in this ad. If they'd only stayed around a little longer, maybe they would've added a wireless keyboard for fetuses:
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 6:00AM It's weird unearthing Sony ads from five-seven years ago: It almost feels like an alternate universe: A universe in which Apple doesn't exist, and we all went down a different path to audio/video goodness. I'll go ahead and coin the term for it right now: Sonypunk.
In this ad, we see some of the last gasps of the minidisc format, and a cameo by the good old Sony blue alien, whose existence I had completely forgotten:
Sonypunk: You heard it here first.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7:52AM The internet. On your phone. In 1997. That's the message in this creepy Qualcomm Q Phone ad. The best part has to be the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen at the end of the ad. No need to ruin the surprise, just watch.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 7:47AM Sure, the original Mac had a handle, but what if your "portable" happens to weigh 50 pounds? And to think, people thought the Mac at 20+ pounds was too heavy... In 1975 if you wanted computer power on the go, about the only option was the IBM 5100. Good luck checking it on the plane:
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 7:47AM Last month, I mentioned my near-purchase of a Sony Aibo. While that was a case of close-but-no cigar, there was one robot I was lucky enough to have as a kid: Verbot. Tomy's Verbot offered a revolutionary robot that could be programmed to respond to basic voice commands, like "Forward" and "lift up." It was a thing of beauty, at least in theory. In practice, it took several attempts to get the dang thing to do anything, and its ability to lift things was always a bit iffy at best. That's not quite how it was portrayed in the commercial: