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GPS Cell Phone in Soda Can Form
Myko writes "PhoneScoop.com reports that Coca Cola has unleashed a new GPS enabled cell phone for a new promo. Apparently the user will push one button which will auto dial a Coke rep that will tell them they won an SUV. They'll then press and enable the GPS and the prize squad will drive to their location with the prize. So the big question is, will the phone give off any residual waves that will allow custom made detection equipment to find the right 12 pack, similar to the tilt and win iTunes trick? :)" We mentioned this last year, but it wasn't clear how the GPS-in-a-can trick was going to work.
I had a tin can phone when I was a kid using the latest in string technology. The range and clarity still beat my cell phone today.
You're embedding electronic devices in soda cans now?!? You just ruined my best source of tin for my hats, Coca-Cola.
Member of Orkut? Annoyed with spam?
Time to hack this thing to bits! I want free phone calls, I want war-dialing, I want lots of l33t g00t13s!
-Imidazole2
Now all you'll need is that the car will include a red button that, when pressed, will send your location to Coca Cola and a person comes to deliver you a ice cold can of coke!
*BRAAAAAP*
I do. Could you send me any more details/tips please?
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
So the big question is, will the phone give off any residual waves that will allow custom made detection equipment to find the right 12 pack
I can imagine flight attendates augmenting the usual shpill:
We ask at this time that you turn off any cell phones, laptops, PDAs and GPS-enabled soda cans....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Take can to sandy Beach. Click, call win the SUV. Throw can into sea. Watch coke reps do a yellow submarine job out into the pacific. Call papers ahead of time watch the event.
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
I'd get the winning can while boarding an airplane.
(Me, opening can:) Hey - I think I won!
(Flight Attendant:) "At this time, please turn off all personal electronic devices.
Your flight crew will inform you when it is safe to use approved electronic devices in flight."
(Me:) --AARRRGGGH!
This sig is a test. If this had been an actual sig, you would be reading something quite a bit wittier than this now.
...with an attached Pringles can.
Grab a few cases before you make that trip up Everest. Just the chance of winning and making them follow you up would make the attempt worth it.
...fire a handgun into the cans, you could look through the bullet holes to find the winner.
Step 1) Give the phone to your freaky, paranoid, paramilitary and big brother suspicious neighbor. Step 2) Get some lawn chairs and a cooler. Step 3) Watch the prize delivery crew show up unannounced. Step 4) Get interviewed on the 10:00 news.
You get to win even if you steal the case?
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Coke is obviously going to track where the winning cans are distributed so they can have the prize stationed nearby, soooo....
Who ever wins should mess with them by finding to the most remote location they can get a cell signal before pushing the button. Go to Nome, or Yellowknife, or park a boat offshore somewhere.
If God had had a computer it would have taken him 7 months to create the earth...if he even bothered to do it at all.
They probably have thought of this and blocked the GPS antenna and cellphone antenna with some lead or something so that the RFID technique wouldn't work.
I don't think it would have fit inside the can...unless it was a RAV4 or something...
Ahhh...a nice refreshing coke...
GLURG GLURG SPLORK COUGH CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE
<DEATH>
*ring* *ring* *ring*
Hello there, you've won a free SUV! Sir?
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Must... resist.... can't....
IRS: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
(Yeah, I suffer from SDWS... slow day at work syndrome)
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
We would like to give you this brand new SUV. Please excuse the 3000 miles we put on it getting here, and sorry about the spilled soda in the passanger seat, and thankyou for staying right here for 5 days while we got it here, sorry about have got stop for directions 10 times. Enjoy!
"What the fuck you do with my coke?"
"Congratulations, you've won..."
"No, no, fuck that, I paid for 12 cokes and I got 11 cokes and this talking plastic thing."
"Ummm...car..."
"Bitch, I'll cut you!"
Another $%&^ing SUV choking the road.
This is exactly what happened in Toronto a few years ago with a similar promotion involving milk cartons wired with a piezo speaker and some electronics to make the carton "moo" when opened. Someone got one of these and presumably had no idea that a mooing carton indicated a winner, so they left it on a table in a cafeteria with the speaker wires partially pulled out.
The clean-up staff, apparently also not keen followers of popular culture, saw a milk carton with wires and electronics inside it, and they called the bomb squad, who efficiently blew the carton to blazes.
Here's a link for Snopes and the other skeptics: