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Yeah, okay.
So upstart Pomegranate comes out of nowhere, and if you visit its website long enough it will take you to Nova Scotia. Been there, done that, don’t want to go there again. How about some actual news about when this phone is going to be released and which wireless service is going to sell it…
They had me going up until the built-in coffee brewer.
You can’t slash your wrists with the built-in razor…won’t do any business in Seattle.
Wow….seriously…people fell for this?
I’m not gonna lie, they had me until the coffee brewer.
I just like how all the Canadian cell phones (real and fake) are named after fruits.
In a thoroughly pedantic aside, I should point out that with the name (Pomegranate) and the trifold-seed design of the logo, we mythology geeks predict any owner would be spending the three months of winter in the underworld alongside Persephone.
There is a term for this. Vapor something or other.
That’s a brilliant but risky piece of viral marketing. I gotta admire the salesmanship of the ad firm that sold it to the Nova Scotia COC, and the guts it took for the COC to spend the money. Hell, I’m sold – I’ll visit Nova Scotia.
Feh, it doesn’t even have cork extractor OR a laser death-ray.
I mean seriously, what the hell kind of phone these days doesn’t have at least a freakin’ laser death-ray function?
Piece of crap, if you ask me.
with that ad, it’s going nowhere fast. horrible website. dreck. garbage. but, no doubt, incredibly expensive. tone, you aren’t going to get one, are you?
@12:
I think this is the thread where the stupid commenters out themselves.
@13. ok Dan, enlighten me. the whole thing’s a joke, is that it? aaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
@13:
Hey, it happens. I’m just hoping you didn’t click the link about the built-in harmonica without getting suspicious.
Er, @14. Blah.
@15 I don’t get your @16. (what is that? “you’re a bore”?) But, I didn’t go to the harmonica. Somehow, some way, I found the coffee maker and the shaver plausible. Perhaps I should retire from Slog, on account of my advanced age. It’s checkers and Reader’s Digest for me from here on out! Goodbye everybody!
Tone, you owe me.
You have to admit, it’s a pretty elaborate joke.
You know – the harmonica isn’t actually a deal-breaker. Check out this video of an actual app for the iPhone which turns it into a globally networked Ocarina. No joke:
http://newrockstarphilosophy.com/2008/11…
Loved it. Desperately wanted one. Way to go, Nova Scotia, that was actually impressive.
Alas, I only got as far as the universal translator before I was calling bullshit. I am old and jaded and cynical, and I minored in linguistics so I know there’s just no way a computer — even a desktop, much less a hand-held — will be able to do that for at least 10 years, if ever. Still. Awesome website.
hysterical! brilliant! bravo, bravo!! — applause – ovation —
The keyboard is a hilarious joke on its own. It could have been really subtle as a completely normal phone with the totally useless “qwerty” keyboard, instead they added some obviously ridiculous features. The whole “ludicrous technology mashup” thing is a bit old. Toaster with an IP address anyone? That keyboard is pure gold though.
That vaporware is so old its livejournal.
It only had me until the Universal Translator.
Good fun though I was laughing my arse off by the shaver.
This video is describes my thoughts better than my writing. It’s for all the Slog viewers to contemplate this holiday weekend. Have fun with your family and friends.
Evidence
A short film by “Koyaanisqatsi” director Godfrey Reggio produced at Fabrica (http://www.fabrica.it) in Italy with Angela Melitopoulos and Miroslav Janek and produced by Massimo Cortesi.
Seven minutes might be too long, given turkey prep, football tv, kissing, hugging, catching up, etc. So take a ‘gander’ at it Monday morning.
@5
“Because women may say they like gay well-dressed men, but they really want guys like me who can rock them all night long … and want to be doing it …”
Will in Seattle – 2008
All jokes aside, I can’t wait till the projector thingy becomes a reality. But, really fun prank! I loved it!
Hahha, Anthony is an idiot.
I liked that the translator spoke Ammonite.
@28 – It’s coming. Check out the Optoma Pico. Not for sale yet, but coming soon. Won’t be long before someone gets it integrated into a phone.
http:/www.optoma.co.uk/optomapico/index.…
Nothin beats the Rad Monkey Electric Cow Bell.
http://www.radmonkeycowbells.com/
@26
don’t try to be hip by using emoticons. it makes you look schizophrenic.
They had me going until I got sick of obnoxious fucking flash-based website (i.e., about twenty seconds in) and I just looked the damn thing up on wikipedia to see what features it had.
It had me until my partner came up to me and said ‘this is a put-on, right’? I believed the projector was real. What’s wrong with me?
When did pomegranates become so trendy? Has anyone else noticed that?
When did those POM drinks come out? Probably then
Surfer Girls? How about some hot Cape Breton fiddlin’ girls!
I want one of the t-shirts.