Procter & Gamble Promotes Mobile Shopping with Virtual QR Store

It’s no secret that companies who come up with the most creative ads are the ones that get the most attention, therefore, achieving their goal. Procter & Gamble decided to go the unusual route recently, and drummed up a lot of publicity when they launched their QR truck store on the road.

Procter Gamble Mobile TruckIt’s basically a regular old truck that invites people to buy some of P&G’s basic household stuff simply by pointing their smartphones at the QR codes beside the pictured goods. No details on how the P&G will deliver the items to the customer, although it’ll probably be shipped over to their home. While a fairly novel idea, we’ve seen something like this before with the virtual grocery store over in Korea.

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The downside is that it’s probably not the greatest thing for the environment, with all the gas it’ll consume while making the rounds in the city.

P&G’s trucks were only deployed until June 27th as part of a promotional campaign. There’s no word on whether this is something they’ll be doing on a regular basis.


No Need To Invent The Koch Brothers – They’re The Real Thing!

No Need To Invent The Koch Brothers - They're The Real Thing!If Charles Dickens was alive today, he might have been inclined to
create a fictionalized version of the malevolent brothers the likes of
Charles and David Koch (pronounced Coke). While these two modern-day
rogues have deviously shown how elections can be manipulated, helped
create a radical extremist group, despoiled a number of ecosystems and
are hell-bent on demonizing the current leader of the free world — the
Koch brothers run one of the largest U.S.companies (bigger than Coke), but one that
most folks never heard of.


How to Select a Home Automation Provider, From Vivint to HAI

Home AutomationIf you’ve taken all the information we covered about home automation earlier and decided that you want to install one in your home, then the next (and obvious) thing you need to do is figure out which provider to go with. Vivint appears to be a prime contender, seeing as they’ve just recently got the Central Station of the Year Award.


2012 MINI Cooper China Olympic Special Edition is No Green Bean

2012 MINI Cooper China Olympic Special Edition is No Green BeanThe London Olympics are about to roll and so is a new, special edition MINI Cooper! The 2012 MINI Cooper China Olympic Special Edition is, as you may have guessed, exclusive to China and features a unique gold running track graphic on its roof.


McRib Gets a Reboot as Japanese Chain Rolls Out the “Ribusando”

McRib Gets a Reboot as Japanese Chain Rolls Out the “Ribusando”McRib fans, get your appetites to Tokyo! McDonalds’ iconic boneless barbecue pork sandwich makes the leap to competing fast food chain Lotteria, gaining lettuce & mayo along the way.


SONY’s New Cassette Tapes, Redesigned for the Old Generation

SONY's New Cassette Tapes, Redesigned for the Old GenerationDust off that Walkman, Daddy-O! SONY’s new series of cassette tapes sports larger text and wider labels designed to appeal to a whole old generation of music fans!


(Rumored) Winklevii’s Social Network "Zurker" For The People & Of The People (Models too!)

Winklevii's New Social Network "Zurker" For The People & Of The People (Models too!) Not content to sit on their laurels, nor the $65 million they pocketed
from their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their
Facebook idea – the Winklevoss twins have launched their own network,
named Zurker.
Part investment opportunity, part chic-magnet, part-democratic social
community, their innovative new wrinkle is to convince members they can
become joint owners of their company.


IBM Labs pitches the future of augmented reality shopping with mobile app prototype

IBM Labs pitches the future of augmented reality shopping with mobile app prototype

From the same company that brought you the ThinkPad and the tank of a keyboard known as the Model M, today IBM is demonstrating its latest consumer development: a mobile shopping app. As odd as that sounds, it’s no secret that Big Blue employs some rather brilliant folk, and now the company is looking to combine augmented reality with your everyday shopping habits. While still merely a prototype, the app will allow consumers to pan product aisles with their smartphone camera and view additional details on the screen. As IBM puts it, shoppers may input their own needs and preferences into the app, which can accommodate a wealth of information such as allergens, sugar content and bio-degradable packaging. Through partnerships with retailers, IBM also hopes to integrate promotions and loyalty schemes into the app, which it states will help stores better understand the buying habits of individual consumers. So there you have it, the future of shopping, as brought to you by IBM. As for the full PR, you’ll find it after the break.

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Orbitz Polishes Higher Hotel Rates For Its Apple Users

Orbitz Polishes Higher Hotel Rates For Its Apple UsersThere’s a reoccurring foreboding in many
fairytales, that says: magic comes with a price. The Evil Queen that offered
Snow White the poisonous apple received her comeuppance in the end, and hopefully Orbitz
will be served a does of the same, when the traveling public learns
that Mac users are charged more than those using Windows. Yes, in this
case, you can think of Orbitz
as the Evil Queen! And the 30 percent higher rates they are offering to
Apple device owners, the fruits from their poisonous tree.


Father Of Obamacare’s Signature Irony Not Lost On The Twittersphere

In an alternate universe somewhere, the Father of Obamacare might have
actually had a shot at becoming the next president of the United States,
had he just stuck to his guns. Because on Planet Earth, the candidate
responsible for this
accomplishment is not Obama. Obama cannot take credit for inventing the
Affordable Care Act. It was ironically his opposition who laid the
groundwork in Massachusetts, and then decided to take the wrong fork
in the road to diminish its application for the nation.