Apple Ad Ripoff?

 

 

Hum… Apple has a this ad for their new Intel powered computers that looks a whole lot like a video by a group named "The Postal Service". After seeing both of them I’d say that there are similarities, quite a few of them. Who ever was the company that made the Apple ad nailed the look of the Postal Service video 100%. I don’t know if the ad agency that Apple hired did this intentionally but they got their moneys worth on the viral marketing angle by coming close and then planting the seed of suspicion in people’s minds and banking on everyone making a big deal out of it like a bunch of mindless sheep. Well I say ‘BAAA!’. Yep, I’ll play the game. Heck, the music video is good, the song is even better (I was looking for the name of that band for quite a while), and its always funny when a computer company calls the customers of it’s newest partner ‘dull’. Hard to beat that. BTW, I won’t be upset if someone hits up my donation button big time so I can stop being a ‘dull’ Intel customer and become a ‘dull’ Apple customer.

Apple Ripoff

Robo-T Paper Robots

Paper robots from Japan 

This is a little collection of 25 very cool pop classic paper robots that you can make all the way from Japan!. Paper Forest has some navagation instructions in case you get lost:

Though in Japanese, the site is fairly intuitive to navigate. Just click on the robot you are interested in and then click on the link to the left of the enlarged model picture. Next you’ll click on the PDF icon and you’ll be ready to print

I love Paper Forest! 

[via Paper Forest]

Robo-T Paper Robots

(Translated via Google)

Homemade Air Engines

 

These little air powered motors remind me of a compressed CO2 airplane engine that my father had. It was a commercial product but the idea was the same. The high pressure gas would force the single piston down the cylinder and the inertia of the crankshaft would force the piston back up for another charge. It produced quite a bit of power from a single tiny cylinder of gas. The engines that Mike Smyth builds are a true work of art, all the parts were made from either brass from a local hardware shop or plastic form a cutting board. The tools were no more complex than a drill press and a belt sander. I’m quite happy to hear that he didn’t use a computer controlled mill or some strange stereo photo polymer lithography setup to build his wonderful machines.

[via MAKEzine blog

Air Engines

Play Games With Your Bare Hands

This looks like fun. This isn’t your usual el-cheap-o A/V out low end video game system like those Segas or Atari joy stick games, nope! This has you wear little markers on your hands (‘dragonhands’) that are ‘seen’ by a camera that you stick on the top of your TV. So as you move your hands around the guy from Dragonball-Z (Goku) jumps, climbs, fights, and even unleashes his super power attacks. This could be the next Dance Dance Revolution

[via we make money not art

Fight Vegeta with your bare hands