Magical Moving Photo Type Ads Due for Limited Copies of Entertainment Weekly
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Posted by: sue
August 20, 2009, 11:18 AM
Thanks to everyone who emailed today regarding the news of a clever real world Muggle marketing and advertising campaign that will echo the moving photos seen in the Daily Prophet. The BBC reports that on September 18, readers in LA and New York who purchase a copy of Entertainment Weekly will see their issue contain special video -in-print ads. These will be "slim-line screens - around the size of a mobile phone display," and have a "chip technology used to store the video - described as similar to that
used in singing greeting cards - [which] is activated when the page is turned." The Telegraph also reports that these 90 second video ads will "show clips from future CBS programmes and an advert for a
diet cola."
117 Comments
1661 Points
Lmao!! This is hilarious! I can’t believe HP is having this kind of affect on modern technology. I wonder what scientists are going to try to do next…portkeys? I love it!
I wish I could get this issue, but I don’t live in NYC or LA. :(
2233 Points
Whoa. No way. Is this actually real?!
I want one =)
1839 Points
Ahhh…the ever reaching effects of Harry Potter. We knew it was more than just a “children’s story!” HA :)
79377 Points
THAT is seriously cool!
16257 Points
that sounds so cool. i wish i could get one of those copies.
3031 Points
thats cool iv seen stuff kinda like this befor
222 Points
so many stuff from the Wizarding World are becoming a possibility in the Muggle World. There’s the invisibility cloak, Weasley’s clock, and this one.. I hope we’ll be able to make Quidditch possible soon—like in my lifetime!!
16257 Points
that sounds so cool. i wish i could get one of those copies.
40 Points
Apparently the screens are 2.7mm thick… that could make for some large Entertainment Weeklys! My favorite part though is that they have rechargeable batteries, so you can watch your pepsi ads again and again! XD
1638 Points
Daily prophet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
450 Points
I wonder how much per unit this thing will actually cost. I see huge markets right now in Greeting Cards. I could also imagine books with moving images, using a small replaceable battery. Such books would be more than entertainment. Think of the educational possibilities of a text that SHOWS a process, whether the process is a video or a moving drawing or the steps for solving an equation . . .
4208 Points
Those will be ads that will be darn hard to ignore! What a hoot!
8876 Points
Wow … this is so cool. HP is gradually influencing everything. Who knows, maybe ten years from now all newspapers and magazines will have moving pictures. Like, right now the pic is going to be kind of thick so it would not be practical to fill a newspaper or it would be huge. But, when you think how big cellphones were even a few years ago and how small they are now, it’s plenty possible that moving pics can be slimmed down, too.
177 Points
i think i might have to buy one!! I hope they do this with a Harry Potter add too!
7475 Points
They have invisibility cloaks Choas35??? that’s crazy!
This is pretty cool…little bit of a waste of time for inventors but still cool
Lmao!! This is hilarious! I can’t believe HP is having this kind of affect on modern technology. I wonder what scientists are going to try to do next…portkeys? I love it!
I wish I could get this issue, but I don’t live in NYC or LA. :(