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Nowadays, mobile phone has become our important communication device - if I couldn’t mention that it’s the most important thing. So for them who have a lot of meetings in public space and do mobile working, they often have problem with their mobile phone’s battery. Your battery is empty, but you need call someone. Ouch…

The good news is a cell phone charging kiosk introduced in China and US may solve the problem. A six feet tall by two feet wide cell phone charging kiosk can charge 18 different types of mobile phone at the same time, and even iPod. The device with a 17 inch color monitor near the top and equipped with stereo speakers also can be an advertising media in mall and other public spaces.

Imagine you are a person that loves travelling and to discover new things in the nature.
While walking through a large forest into the mountains you are amazed by the beauty of the flora and fauna diversity and you can’t help yourself to take some nice detailed pictures to show them to your friends after coming back home.

But why to wait until you are back, and not share these while you are still in the middle of the nature?
The Backpacker’s Diary concept is the right tool for this, and more than that it allows you to do many other things with the help of next-generation technologies, making your trip the most perfect and full of discoveries.

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Soon media promotion ‘billboard’ will be having a BIG revolution. Lately, Big Moving Pictures Inc, Americas Television Network company, has create a mobile billboard sizing 12 x 6.7m (40 x 22 ft).

This billboard isnt made from wood or regular material (as they used to be), instead of TV HDTV LED. Later this media promotion can be used as a TV in a exhibition or outdoor event like racings. With this BIG size hopefully it can also create traffic :)

I bet all of you know The Sims and I suppose you’ve seen the brands embedded in the game. The Sims is just another “virtual world” that boomed in the last couple of years, especially in terms of product placement practice. Second Life players have seen Reebok and HMV stores online, The Sims provides H&M products and Ford cars, even Aeropostale, a clothing retailer, developed their own virtual world to engage with their customers.

BUT… how engaging could it be? do you actually go “real-world” shopping for the things you already owned “virtually”? does the placement actually generate sales?

Some brands have gone bust in the virtual world coz they claimed it didn’t generate any sales, nor brand loyalty. But others tried different rules of engagement. For example, H&M tries going a bit further from just placing their product, onto an online competition in designing a shirt and the winning shirt will be available in stores in “real-world”. Quoting Madison+Vine regarding the campaign - “It really is the ultimate in brand engagement,” said Steve Seabolt, VP-global brand development for “The Sims,” an Electronic Arts label game. “It really is a way to bring a product or a service into your virtual life, become familiar with it, play with it and, hopefully, incorporate it into your real life.”

I suppose we’ll have to wait for the impact.. I’d be really curious to see the sales figure for that one particular shirt in due time…

Usually iPod can only be heard simultantly. But now u guys can hear the sound of an iPod using this product from belkin, Rockstar (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=404634). Rockstar is sort of a hub for earphones that enable users to use earphones in five pieces simultantly.

Their product overview; RockStar makes it fun to create your own music experience. Connect up to five headphones, and your iPod, to start sharing. Or, add another iPod to mix songs and listen together. Works with all MP3 and DVD players, as well as other portable media devices.

Interesting to use this with your neigbours?