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iPod turning Japanese, inspiring knock-off tissue ads
iLounge friend and reader Paul Nordstrom August writes from Tokyo, Japan’s Ginza district with this report on the increased Japanese cultural interest in the iPod: “I went by the Apple Store and at 8:00 or 9:00 pm on a Saturday it was packed out. The main floor is about 60 percent iPod. They had one Mac mini on a central stand - it looks fabulous with a 20-inch screen. No iPod shuffles on display, but each staff member had one around their neck… Anyway you may know they hand out tissue packs as adverts in Japan, and I was extremely amused to find this being handed out in Sapporo last week - fantastic!”
Click “Read more” for the full-sized image, which we’ve digitally blurred to obscure the advertised (adult) web site.
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1
where is the “read more” thing?
Posted by M Bargo in Chicago, IL on January 24, 2005 at 1:52 PM (PST)
2
“read more” for a enlarged pic.
Posted by frankthetank on January 24, 2005 at 2:39 PM (PST)
3
yeah i know, but i can’t seem to find the link to the enlarged image.
Posted by M Bargo in Chicago, IL on January 24, 2005 at 4:18 PM (PST)
4
me neither, where do you click?
Posted by Cheyne M. on January 24, 2005 at 4:21 PM (PST)
5
Your looking at it guys.
Posted by TennBikeBerk on January 24, 2005 at 4:33 PM (PST)
6
no, no there is a little rectangler piece that is blurred out, and i wish to see the entire thing.
Posted by M Bargo in Chicago, IL on January 24, 2005 at 5:34 PM (PST)
7
They digitally blurred it for a reason. They already said that there’s an advertisement for an adult web site under that blur. They’re not going to unblur it just to pique people’s curiosity as to which web site. If you want to see adult web sites just use google. You don’t need a Japanese tissue ad.
Posted by anypats on January 24, 2005 at 6:24 PM (PST)
8
Hmm. Ad for a porn site on a box of tissues…
Posted by ct77 on January 24, 2005 at 6:42 PM (PST)
9
Why can’t they give i=out free iPod shaped tissue in the states? :(
Posted by FallN in New York, NY on January 24, 2005 at 8:14 PM (PST)
10
it’s weird I went to that link on the tissue and it doesn’t seem to be anything like that lol (in case ur wondering I caught it before they took it down to blur out the link)
Posted by MATRIXsjd in Burbank, Ca on January 24, 2005 at 8:58 PM (PST)
11
a bear, mining for coal…
well i never…
Posted by iWiNuLoOz789 in Jersey on January 25, 2005 at 1:43 AM (PST)
12
Yesterday I sneezed into my iPod.
Posted by Capnquirky in Shell Pile New Jersey on January 25, 2005 at 6:36 AM (PST)
13
it’s weird I went to that link on the tissue and it doesn’t seem to be anything like that lol (in case ur wondering I caught it before they took it down to blur out the link)
Minor clarification... something got lost in translation (as it were)... I found this in Sapporo and noted that it *might* be an adult site—it has been known to happen!—but I guess it wasn’t in this case
There’s a whole mini-industry turning out these advertising promotions, but this is the most original design I’ve seen so far.
Posted by iPodPartout in Old Europe on January 25, 2005 at 9:32 AM (PST)
14
its NOT an adult site… its just a mobile site. the barcode thing u see there is..
well in japan, theres those barcodes for everything now, and what you do is take your cell phone, take a pic of it, and then its like a link… it recognizes the barcode thing and goes to the appropriate website.
what they’re advertising there is just a mobile website.
Posted by elephant_man_man on January 28, 2005 at 9:01 PM (PST)
15
it IS an adult site but not porn site. In Japan all mail friend sreaching site is setted to use at 18+ by law.
Posted by enixc in Tokyo on January 30, 2005 at 5:06 AM (PST)