Billboards

Software

What It Looks Like When The Sky Crashes

10:00AM January 23, 2012 | Casey Chan

A floating digital billboard programmed to beam up to the sky crashed in Odessa, Ukraine, so it transformed into a floating error box. Funny! Or maybe God uses Windows? [Izismile via BoingBoing]

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Something Smells About Meat & Livestock Australia’s Billboards

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4:00PM November 10, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Quite literally, in fact. Vegans aren’t going to be happy with the marketing group’s latest efforts, which includes billboards that smell of cooking meat. More »

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The Jell-O Pudding Man Smiles Or Frowns On Manhattan

11:33AM August 9, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

If you live in Manhattan and want to see a sight you’ll never forget, then travel to West Broadway and Grand Street. Look up and you’ll see the disturbing 3D face of the Jell-O pudding man. More »

Science

Orange You Glad Advertising’s Going Eco-Friendly?

7:30PM July 1, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

For Tropicana juice’s latest ad campaign, they went back to basics and filled billboards with hundreds of oranges, the acid of which generated enough electricity to light up the billboard. More »

Gaming

Play Pong Using Your iPhone, Just Try Not To Be Brainwashed

9:20PM June 6, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Loathe them all you like (except when it’s midnight; you’ve had a few drinks, and have 20 minutes to kill before your bus comes), McDonalds has done good with this billboard that lets iPhone users play Pong. It’s that simple. More »

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Man Going To Prison For Hacking Billboard To Play Porn (NSFW)

9:20AM March 25, 2011 | Casey Chan

Oh Igor Blinnikov, you prankster you! A year ago, the Russian man hacked a highway video billboard in Moscow and rigged it so it would broadcast porn. Traffic stopped to a standstill as drivers enjoyed the public peep show. Good one Igor, funnies all around! More »

This Billboard Is Made Of Cheese

1:20AM October 22, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

I asked Virgin Media, the UK ISP whose 100MB broadband is advertised in cheese in London, if I could lick their billboard. They said yes. I’m gonna refrain as I’ve got a cold, but that 110kg of cheese is awfully tempting. More »

RIM Wants Billboards That Know How Fast You’re Driving

6:00AM September 8, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

You’re flying down the freeway at 110km/h, and you notice a billboard that reads, “LIFE’S BETTER WITH BBM.” The next day, crawling along that same stretch during a traffic jam, the billboard enumerates a BlackBerry’s many features. That’s RIM’s vision. More »

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Nokia’s Come-From-Behind Strategy

10:00AM July 27, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Maybe I’m just a dreamer, but I’m pretty sure this version of Nokia’s slogan would do more to boost sales than “Connecting People” ever did. More »

Minority Report Intelligent Digital Billboards Are Real

10:00AM July 18, 2010 | Casey Chan

You remember those billboards in Minority Report, the ones that personalise what they display depending on who stands in front of it. Tokyo is rolling out digital billboards that do the same thing. More »