Remember the #qantasluxury PR fail? It seems someone didn’t learn from it. Somewhere in corporate Hamburgerland, an ad executive with a penchant for “social media” and “the Twitter” thought a McDonald’s-themed hashtag would sell more food. Oh boy was he wrong. Mickey D’s Twitter push is backfiring harder than E. coli vomit. More »
This advertising fail was spotted by Giz reader Jacob on the wall at Harvey Norman in Warrawong, NSW. Certainly looks like an iPhone to me, though I could be wrong. Definitely not an old school Nokia pop-port, nor does it seem like the N8. Thoughts? More »
This Lenovo laptop is said to boot up in just 10 seconds. Pretty speedy, but can it boot up and launch its own parachute while in freefall? Will it survive?? Thanks, Lenovo. You’re making me want to see you fail. More »
Earlier this morning I was reading a post on a UK blog entitled “15 more sites that forbid you from linking to them“. After having a chuckle at the list and the stupidity of trying stop people linking to your website I got thinking “Surely Australian websites aren’t this silly are they?”. Oh how wrong I was. More »
Have you checked your Gmail lately? Better go check if you haven’t in a while, because there’s been some kind of “reset” at Google that’s resulted in missing emails, labels, folders and themes. More »
Somehow this television commercial advertising for a local college master’s program ended up with such the subtitles as “It’s a dragon ripping the flesh off of a cow’s carcass” and “What are you, a woodchuck?” Awesome. More »
Space suits are insanely cool. Except this one. This prototype hamster ball suit was designed by engineers at John Hopkins and actually presented to NASA in 1964. The engineers claimed astronauts would be more mobile with this thing on. More »
