Disrupting Innovation

I have worked in Google for more than two years and I enjoy the world of advertising. Unfortunately, I live in a country (Italy) where creative advertising is associated with pictures of naked women. This is how creative Italian ad agencies are. Therefore I am extremely happy when I come across some well written ads and funny ideas, like the ones below from Miele, a German manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Miele appliance:)

Enjoy them below:

Miele silent Vacuum cleaner



The "sucked" dog

Well, this is not a secret anymore, then enjoy the news:

This video is really funny.

The Speak & Spell was an electronic toy consisting of a speech synthesizer and a keyboard. It was produced by Texas Instruments and introduced at the summer Consumer Electronics Show in June 1978.
A whole generation of kids learned to spell on this cheery orange device with alphabet keys and a hardy handle. Speak & Spell contained a single-chip speech synthesizer, a disrupting innovation for the time, and a robotic voice that encouraged children to spell more than 200 common words.

I dreamed of this toy but my parents never got me one. I can finally play with one from this page.

It is better to laugh and not to comment on this ...thank you, Seth.

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"

The result is released by LaughLab research which carried out by psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire. The research attracted more than 40,000 jokes and almost two million ratings.

Awesome piece of work. Too bad Bush did not actually listen to the song itself. He might have learned something from it.

Walter H. G. Lewin is currently a professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

If only my phisics' teachers had such dedication and enthusiam! What a difference Science class would have made if he had been my teacher! I might have actually learned something!

Watch the video here.

I love motorbikes, but this must not be the most comfortable one.

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 70 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station. Over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day, but today, things slowed down just a bit as commuters and tourists alike stopped to notice what was happening around them. Enjoy the video.

Click on this link and enjoy the experience of driving in the front seat.
I imagined at least twice as much buttons. I'm a little bit disappointed.