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Why You’d Never Know There Was A Mouse In Your Soda

1:20PM January 3, 2012 | Mat Honan

Pepsi is being sued by a Madison County, Illinois man who claims he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Ho-hum, right? But wait, Pepsi came up with the greatest defence ever: you’ll never know you’re drinking mouse! More »


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America, This Is Just Too Much

2:20AM June 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Can’t…stop *wheeze* laughing…at…the…cruel *big breath* irony of it all. This is no Photoshop japery like that “Seriously McDonalds” viral; this is the real deal, spotted at an American KFC. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Flickr seals it. [SelfishGiving via Grist]


Science

The Future Of Salt And Sugar Is Being Engineered In A PepsiCo Lab

9:00PM May 10, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

The preferred way to think about the intersection of science and food lately is like this or this, when the reality is more like what’s going on deep inside of PepsiCo, the largest food company in America. More »


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Pepsi’s Social Vending Machine Would Be Kinda Great If…

12:40AM April 29, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

The clincher in Pepsi’s new “social” vending machine platform is the ability to gift Pepsi beverages – and retrieve your gifted beverages – which is kind of awesome, putting vending machines at the same level of 2000s-era commerce as other electronic stores, say, iTunes or Amazon. More »


Science

Behold Pepsi’s 100% Plant-Based Plastic Bottle

6:20AM March 17, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

Soft drinks are bad for you, but plastics – especially the petroleum-based PET plastics used widely for bottles – are bad for everyone. Thankfully, after millions of dollars and years of research, Pepsi thinks it’s cracked the code on a 100 per cent plant-based PET bottle. More »


Online

The Pepsi-Coke Wars Reach StreetView

9:40AM September 28, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

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If you drive a Pepsi truck to 3800 Rue Ontario, Montreal, it davidcopperfieldly morphs into a Coca-Cola truck. At least, that’s what happens if you do it in Google Street View. More »


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Chug This And Die (Possibly)

11:20AM June 29, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

How much caffeine and carbonation is inside the Japan-only Pepsi Strong Shot? The can says you have to wait 15 seconds to drink it. Or what? Or what?! [Inventor Spot via Awesomer via Nerdalicious]


Gadgets

Pepsi’s Dream Machine Kiosk Awards Points For Recycled Bottles

8:20AM April 23, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Pepsi and Waste Management are teaming up to make every kid’s on-the-go recycling dream come true with Dream Machine, a giant, computerised recycling bin that doles out points for returned bottles. Because who needs deposits when you can have dreams. More »


Software

Pepsi Issues “Apology” For Offensive iPhone Dating App

4:40AM October 14, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Pepsi’s “Amp Up Before You Score” iPhone app is intended to help men score with women (and brag about it with their friends on Facebook or Twitter). Not surprisingly, this has created something of a PR issue. More »


Entertainment

MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to ‘Pepsuber’

1:00AM February 2, 2009 | Jack Loftus

MacGruber, the gadget-heavy SNL sketch that always ends with an explosion, was heavy on something else last night: Product placement. And not even a cameo by Richard Dean Anderson—MacGyver himself—could save these three commercials.

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