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Billboards to Get Cameras, Determine What You Want to Buy via Your Face

Billboards might be about to get a little less passive, as a number of startups begin adding cameras to them to record just who is looking at them. Yes, billboards are going to start watching you to see if you're watching them. The future is now! More »

11:00 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Adam Frucci
3,065 views, 32 comments

Latest by GadgetPlay: @ideaman2020: "Yeah, because androgynous people never buy things advertised on billboards..." It's really not a huge demographic. Anyway, they probably have an "indeterminate" category. more »

design

Improbable Blu Jacket Custom Made For Attention Seekers

The Blu Jacket concept from Lunar Design aims to turn our children's children into walking billboards using an electronic fabric based on e-paper technology and space-age organic fabrics. It could display your mood throughout the day, pull up maps using a built-in GPS module, display photos, video and (gasp) even advertisements. More »

7:00 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
7,585 views, 32 comments

Latest by Klappstuhl: @hnkelley: *pokes nipples for menu *gets peppersprayed by woman more »

architecture

Living in a Billboard Home Would Be Awesome

Ever drove by one of those billboards on the highway advertising fireworks or a strip joint and said to yourself "I could live up there?" Well someone named Brendan O' Grady has. In fact, his idea for a billboard-like living module earned him a victory in the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation competition, which is apparently some big-whig architectural rendering contest. More »

9:00 PM on Tue Nov 27 2007
By Sean Fallon
8,013 views, 30 comments

Latest by wh0rse: Its always been my dream to live on a billboard, I've about had it with living in this goddamn dumpster! more »

software

Microsoft Misses The Mark With Vista Building Dancer Billboard

As gadget bloggers, we're not really very high on the "cool" scale—the homeless guy outside our building dresses better than us—but even we can tell when a company tries too hard. Example? The Vista Launch. More »

9:37 PM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By Jason Chen
815 views, 16 comments

gadgets

Mickey Dee's Harnesses McSun for Chicago Billboard

We once knew a girl whose face was so ugly it could stop a sundial, so if she lives near Wrigley Field in Chicago, she won't have any way of knowing that it's time to stop eating Egg McMuffins and start digging into Big Macs. Ad agency Leo Burnett dreamed up this idea for a McDonald's billboard that takes us fast food junkies back to the ancient days of sundials, casting a shadow on a cup of McCoffee at 6 a.m., and moving along to other various delectable breakfast items until 11, when those scrumptious McDonald's fries are given the nod by the shadowy arches. More »

9:05 AM on Wed Jul 12 2006
By Charlie White
1,374 views, 10 comments

Latest by dabitch: I have billboard envy. That's great. more »