Fred Rated, the spokesperson/advertiser/random crap extraordinare, has done over one thousand commercials for the tech product chain store The Federated Group, and his advertising contract lasted for six years. The once large chain, with a force of 14 stores that grew to 78 different locations stationed in five states, had a huge increase in sales after the Fred Rated commercials started airing. Shadoe Stevens, the man behind the over-the-top and occasionally ridiculous television ads, has always been a genius marketer, and this legendary advertising campaign is probably the best example.
Now, sit back and watch these video montages of the best Fred Rated ads ever, and finally realize what your life was missing- store ads that made you laugh (or cry). Why doesn’t Best Buy, Fry’s Electronics, Circuit City, or any other electronic store have this much awesome in their ads? The world may never know.
If you can still look yourself in the mirror after watching that commercial collage, then please watch this one too:
All of us are technology lovers, that’s a given. Few of us actually come up with anything revolutionary. Sometimes it takes guys like Edison. Yes, Thomas Edison. A certain level of kickasedness is required to say “Hey, I’m going to make Candles 2.0”
Apparently a California Assemblyman proposed a ban on incandescent lightbulbs last month and a New Jersey assemblyman, this past Thursday, proposed a switch to all fluorescent bulbs in government buildings in the coming 3 years. Are the coming years the end of Edison’s groin-grabbingly awesome invention? Maybe. If that’s the way it’s going to go then I want to give my early farewell to the revolutionary little bulb. A moment of silence darkness in memory of the
incandescent lightbulb please … … Thank you.
What two things drive technology? Greed and Porn and since the NES never saw it’s true potential, the latter never happened. But in 1991 a Minnesota State lottery was in the beginning stages of using an add on that would allow users to connect an actual modem to their NES. This way lazy gambling addicts could pick their numbers in the comfort of their living rooms and also check out a supposed news ticker option, too bad the whole thing got shut down before it got started.
It’s been almost 20 years since that time and Nintendo is just now starting to show it’s presence online, even though the capabilities were obvious then. Too bad we have to deal with friend-codes, meh,right now its Xbox Live FTW.
“After 36 years and billions of sales, the floppy disk is to join the video player, cassette deck and film camera on technology’s scrapheap.
The 9cm piece of plastic will no longer be available from Britain’s biggest computer retailer.
PC World announced last night it would stop selling the disks when stocks ran out.“
Oldies like myself remember the good ol’ days (they weren’t that great really) when we had to load Jazz Jackrabbit or crappy ass DOS programs onto our sideways PCs with monitors on top via hard pieces of plastic. We remember the times when you could only fit 1.3 MB of porn onto your friend borrowed disk and look at in the comfort of dad’s office. We’ll miss you floppy but not really.
Did you know Apple originally intended to go after the untapped market of seven year olds without cell phones using their ultra-portable iPhone? Well neither did I until I stumbled upon these amazing patent designs. I really cannot see why any changes we’re made to the original design for the newer one, there’s a lot of potential for an apple shaped phone in today’s saturated market of “sleek” and “usable” cell phones. Check out some more pictures after that jump.
