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Toyota Love Using Screensavers To Show Off Their iQ

Nick Broughall — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:30:12 +0000

What is it with Toyota and screensavers? First there was the car alarm screensaver for your Macbook, and now there’s this kinda cool one that tells the time by driving little iQ’s on and off the screen. Sure, its not the most revolutionary screensaver out there, but it’s still pretty cool. It’s available for both Macs and Windows XP machines here.

[Toyota - Thanks Ramin]

Car Alarm Screensaver For Your Mac WillKeep Your Documents (Kind Of) Safe

Nick Broughall — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:00:41 +0000

If you love cars – in particular the Toyota iQ (which I don’t believe is available over here) – and own a Macbook, this is the perfect screensaver for you. After installing, you can enable the screensaver by holding the Menu button on your Apple remote for two seconds, and the car will appear on screen as it enables the alarm. Then, if anyone tries to pick up your Macbook, or touch the keyboard, the alarm will go off.

Of course, considering how pretty much every Apple remote automatically controls every Apple computer, it wouldn’t be too hard to work around this, as a security feature. But it’s still a pretty cool form of marketing from Toyota…

Hit the link to download the screensaver for yourself.

[Toyota - Thanks Tom!]

Multi-Computer F1 Racing Screensaver Wins Office Coolness Pole Position

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Intel Brazil has created what’s probably the best office screensaver in the history of office screensavers: a Formula 1 racing course that spans across multiple computers and monitors to offer one seamless view competition all across the office. Once you start them up, the Formula 1 car will go from one computer to the other, following a circuit that has the same topology as the distribution of computers in the office, going through curves, chicanes, and straight lines as needed. The good thing: you can download it yourself for your Mac or PC.

The best: it comes in two flavours, one to test your colleague’s ability to synchronise the computers by hand, and the other one that automatically synchronises all the desktops. Get it here now. [Download via Dvice]