Unmediated says (quoting someone else) that this article (pdf) titled "Reconstructed Natural Scenes from Ensemble Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus" is actually about how to extract video feeds from a brain. Being at the wrong department at MIT, I can't really tell, but consider this quote: "From the activity of 177 cells, we have reconstructed natural scenes with recognizable moving objects."
Earlier:
Sony Patents Telepathy
Future: Product Placement in Dreams
Ringtone Advertising - Check
Six months after I first whined how nobody was making their brand tunes into free ringtones, somebody finally did. Check out Purina's offerings: precisely their theme tune, a bark and a meow. And cell-phone wallpapers, too.
Foodvertising: Cookiegram
"Let us personally deliver your message on a delicious chocolate chip cookie! Any message you wish... great for corporate logos and promotions, or just to make someone's day!" Can you cookiegram "you are fired" to make someone's day? Anyway, I think that's the service mentioned by Brendan and Jana in their famous job hunting story.
Earlier on edible ads:
Advertising With Alphabet Soup
Branding Food With Laser Cutter
Branded Food: M&Ms
Branding Food
People Are Taking More Pictures Than Ever
"America's amateur photographers produced 28 billion digital pictures last year, 6 billion more than they shot on film, even though only half as many own a digital camera, according to the market research firm InfoTrends. People are not just switching formats. They are taking more pictures, 13 billion more last year on film and digital combined than in 2000, when the price of digital cameras began to decline.
Some critics warn that a great photograph's singular power to trigger memory may be at risk. For many people a photograph they have seen a thousand times itself becomes the memory. With digital pictures it is rare for a single photograph to achieve that kind of status."
-- NY Times
Some critics warn that a great photograph's singular power to trigger memory may be at risk. For many people a photograph they have seen a thousand times itself becomes the memory. With digital pictures it is rare for a single photograph to achieve that kind of status."
-- NY Times
DVRs Used To Replay Ads
"While research increasingly shows that a high percentage of DVR users do skip through commercials, new information suggests there is a DVR advertising upside--including the fact that people actually use the devices to replay interesting commercials, and they appear to be restoring the kind of family viewing that marketers and agencies relish."
-- Media Post
Earlier:
Study Shows DVRs Lesser Threat Than Feared
One-Third of DVR Users Watch Ads
-- Media Post
Earlier:
Study Shows DVRs Lesser Threat Than Feared
One-Third of DVR Users Watch Ads
Epidiascope Strikes Back
Remember that piece of presentation hardware with an arcane name "epidiascope"? Well, Samsung just got a silver IDEA award for creating a digital presenter, or an epidiascope on high-tech steroids. Business Week writes: "The Techwin UF-80 can capture images of both flat objects (such as documents) or 3-D objects and relay them to an LCD projector or via the Internet to a remote audience."
Hypersonic Sound Laser For Sale on eBay
If you are interested in buying that mega-cool sound laser beam, Boing Boing says one of them is now selling on eBay. The starting bid was $800, it now (10 am CST Monday) has reached $1825. But, "DO NOT BID on this auction if you plan to [...] use the unit for abruptive advertising (to traffic or people passing by your store/billboard/etc)." Can we use it for non-abruptive advertising, thank you very much?
Event: Ads In Games Forum
The Game Initiative is putting together a West-coast edition of its "Advertising in Games" forum, which will happen in San Francisco on July 28. More on this website.
Second Life Launches In-Game Video Feed
Boing Boing quotes Corante: "Second Life, a multiplayer online game, has launched a live video stream from their virtual world that you can watch on their homepage."
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