Archive for November, 2005

Custom MP3 Players

MP3 players keep getting smaller and smaller and creative folks have figured out how to stick them into custom cases. Check out this functioning MP3 player inside a Nintendo controller! It’s just a matter of time before MP3 players start coming in all sorts of custom cases, ISHO. Here are some of Slicksta’s ideas:

MP3 Zippo [...]

A Christmas Story Leg Lamp

Slicksta has spent many a holiday vacation day watching A Christmas Story over and over again on TV. Ralphie’s constant longing for a BB gun, the triple-dog-dare that results in some kid’s tongue getting stuck to a pole and the soap-poisoning scene never cease to draw hearty laughs (see IMDB’s list of memorable quotes). [...]

iBelieve’s iPod lanyard

Rejoice: audio salvation can be yours for only $12.95. Slicksta thinks this is a clever add-on product for iPod lovers but he’d be a little scared to actually see someone walking down the street wearing this.
“Inspired by the world’s obsession and devotion to the iPod, iBelieve is a replacement lanyard for your iPod Shuffle. [...]

The Legend of Zoro

The ad guys at Sony Pictures sure know how to play up their best assets. Catherine Zeta Jones is smokin’ in The Legend of Zoro. A forty foot tall version of this was outside of Slicksta’s window until a week ago. Can you say distraction? Slicksta was first introduced to Catherine’s talents in 1998’s “The [...]

Kayak Buzz

What happens when you sprinkle data from user airfare searches onto a Google Maps interface? You create a new and clever way to display airfares, prices and possible destinations for your next trip.
Pop in an origination city and watch as colorful lines flare out to all the possibilities in your price range. Click on the [...]

Your Life, Your Chase – Chase Credit Cards

The new series of Chase Credit Card commercials are cheesey, even by Slicksta’s standards, but you can’t deny that they get their message acrossl. The spot features the song 100 years by Five for Fighting and soft, grey-toned images that will make girly-men weepy. The genius of the commercial is how the main character is [...]

Search Engines for Narcissists

Dazzle your co-workers. Amaze your friends. Impress your lover. Okay, maybe not, but at least have a bit of fun searching the web via co-branded versions of Yahoo and Google.
Narcissists. Yikes. Try saying that ten times fast.