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Sky Deutschland Considering Using Bone Conduction To Force Ads On Train Riders
KindMind writes "Sky Deutschland is considering a proposal to use bone conduction to broadcast ads to train riders. The idea is that the riders rest their heads against a part of the train, like the train window, and then bone conduction would broadcast ads directly into their ears."
I was thinking of using bone fragmentation to help my local railway planners understand how I feel about their ossified asininity.
...the incident of violent vandalism aboard trams and trains rose exponentially after the introduction of technology that, to paraphrase a gibbering offender led away in a straight jacket, '...puts goddamn voices in your head..." Advertisers are calling it a new age in advertising and psychotropic drug manufacturers report a boom in sales. More at 11...
We need a new right - the right NOT to be advertised to.
I'm sick of being a product.. I mean, ok the old model of Television and Radio where you the viewer gets something of value (the programming/entertainment) without directly paying for it, then it's a reasonable tradeoff that it's paid for by advertising
However, when you're paying for a train fare, you've paid for the transit... it's not like you're given the option of "pay full price to not be subjected to adversising, or get a discount for being advertised to"
I know I'm unrealistic, but damnit I'm sick of being monetized against my will.
The Digital Sorceress
to paraphrase a gibbering offender led away in a straight jacket
As opposed to a gay jacket?
once someone figures out how to hack into the ad server all kinds of chaos and hilarity can ensue, Ja?
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Ah, trains, a safe haven for travelers for decades, now the science of pushing crap on people who don't want it has invaded your vestibules.
I road on Amtrak years ago and could not for the life of me understand why the bar car had an announcer, who broadcast throughout the train, in a voice not unlike a Harley Davidson exhaust tube by your ear, what wonderful deals they still had on drinks ... at 10 PM.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
treppaning.
If anyone ever figures out how telepathy can work, I predict WW III will be between advertisers and a very angry public.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Seems that the world is turning into Futurama. Where are our hypnotoads and drunken robots burping fire?
Why not just go full Clockwork Orange and strap us down and pry our eyes open and force us to watch ads?
Ironically any product forced on me using this bone conduction method will just piss me off so much that it will leave me deliberately avoiding that product.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
You know what would be great, is if leaning my head against a window in a plane (or train) would, the fullest extent possible, emit a nose canceling signal that would cancel out engine noise from whatever I was traveling in.
Just throwing the idea out there in case some company would like positive, instead of negative, PR.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
as if that wouldn't be bad enough, but you would have the RIAA and MPAA charging you for thinking of a song or rememberinga scene from a movie.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
However, when you're paying for a train fare, you've paid for the transit
No, you've paid for half the transit. Advertisers paid for the other half. It's little different from newspapers or pay television.
Tax payers paid for the other half. Interior advertising pays very little on a train, or bus. (The outside of buses bring in some revenue, but not as much as you might think).
So between fares and Tax Money, virtually ALL of the cost of train, subway, bus transport is paid by the users, or taxpayers in the appropriate jurisdiction.
If fares went down, or service improved with more routes and frequency, advertising on trains might be warranted. But I still don't want bone conduction or loudspeaker advertising that I can't shut out.
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Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes, covering him and Leela in yolk.] Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Koans and fables for the software engineer
It's the best thing for crazy people since Blue Tooth headsets. Those allowed us to assume that you're talking to another person, even if you're talking to the elves who shine your shoes.
Now when you hear voices on the train, that'll be perfectly normal too.
I can't wait to have Monsters Inc (C) projected onto my retinas at inopportune times. Then spontaneous startled reactions and screaming for no apparent reason will be socially acceptable behavior.
I believe this is all part of some UN Convention and/or the Americans with Disabilities Act. It's a conspiracy and if you don't believe that you're a sheeple. Yep. The Internet's part of it too. This paragraph is perfectly normal on the Internet. 2nd best thing for crazy people, ever.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
"Sky is a pay-TV company, not a train company..."
It will never happen anyway. The German Railway Company is even unable to keep the air conditioning working in summer nor the heating in winter, much less such a sophisticated advertisement method.
It's a running joke that ain't funny anymore, because it happens every fucking year.
In all seriousness, I haven't paid active attention to advertising in any form for years - I tune it right out. I fast forward past TV ads, I block most internet ads and don't click the ones that get past. When I want to buy something, I'll go look at products in stores. When an ad DOES come to my attention, it's almost always because its loud, visually jarring, or just obnoxiously stupid. In that case, I put that brand on the "never buy" list. Overall effectiveness of the ads is therefore in the negative numbers, and I'm sure I'm not the only person with this perception.
To me, advertising is like the cold war: Everyone is afraid to stop building H-bombs (or running ads) for fear the other side will get ahead. Stop it all, and a parasitic drain on society ends.
It will never happen anyway. The German Railway Company is even unable to keep the air conditioning working in summer nor the heating in winter, much less such a sophisticated advertisement method. It's a running joke that ain't funny anymore, because it happens every fucking year.
Though to be fair, they do occasionally manage to have the heating running on full power in the summer and the air conditioning in the middle of winter...
The Angels have the Phone Box
Sounds like a great scheme for keeping the train windows clean from people's greasy hair.