For all your GPS needs, here is a Garmin commercial with a unibrow and a minihorse all in one advert!  The holiday season is running towards us!  Only 20 days left until that stressful, yet glorious day.  I hope you have your GPS system ready to help you make your holiday shopping more easy.  This should get you in the Christmas spirits.

Also, look for that mini horse being DRUG [not really] as a Christmas present.

With the Verizon mini horse escapade happening I just thought it was funny to see another mini horse.  Are people giving these minihorses out as stocking stuffers? or are they giving them out like they are fruit cakes?  If that is the case, can I have two? I want to see them battle [again, not really, maybe, I’m unsure].

I read an article on CNN about recycling old technology. I was shocked to read that everything from televisions to cellphones are shipped to China, Nigeria and India. Where they use hammers and blow torches to extract the metal from our techno trash, polluting our environment with deadly chemicals.

Many activists believe the answer lies in requiring electronics makers to take back and recycle their own products. Such laws would encourage manufacturers to make products that are easier to recycle and contain fewer dangerous chemicals, they say.

Eight states, including five this year, have passed such laws, and companies such as Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony now take back their products at no charge. Some require consumers to mail in their old gear, while others have drop-off centers. HP says it also now designs its equipment with fewer toxic materials and has made it easier to recycle.

Jim Puckett of the Basel Action Network says it well, “it is being recycled, but it’s being recycled in the most horrific way you can imagine.” Then he says, “We’re preserving our own environment, but contaminating the rest of the world.”

Go check out this article, it isn’t just for those who are die hard environmentalists.

Destination of ‘recycled’ electronics may surprise you

I have posted several of the new iPhone commercials over the past two or three weeks, so here is another one.  This one involves an impatient pilot who did not want to sit and wait for a storm that had already passed their location.  Agreeable, I hate waiting for flights too, so thank you Mr. Pilot for whipping out your iPhone in a time of crisis.

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So Yahoo! News posted an article called, “Satellite Searches Could Spot Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster.” It seems as though the Mechanical Turk, like the one used to search for the still missing Steve Fossett, could be used to search for such creatures. Although it says that the satellite would probably not be able to zoom close enough to see just one Bigfoot, but if there was a family, which there would have to be some sort of breeding for it to stay alive, they would be easier to spot. The Loch Ness is much larger than the 12 foot Bigfoot, so it would be easier to spot.

Monster hunters would no longer have to go outside to search for their favorite monsters. They could now sit in the privacy of their own home to look for the beasts.

Although Yahoo! News also says that no matter how long they spent looking for the creatures without any sign of them it would not crush their spirits. People could simply say, “they did not look hard enough” and the theory of the creatures being just a myth would be disputed. There will always be Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster fans willing to search for the myth.

CNN.com has been covering the full story on the progress for the search of Steve Fossett who has been missing 10 days. CNN reported:

Searchers followed up on a tip received Wednesday from a woman who had been staying in a remote cabin just over the state line in California, at Sonora Pass north of Yosemite National Park.

“She was in her cabin, and heard a plane fly over … and then she heard a loud explosion or a loud crash noise and saw a little bit of smoke,” said Maj. Ed Locke of the Nevada National Guard.

The Alpine County, California investigators met with the woman who gave the tip on Thursday. They are attempting to pinpoint where she heard the sounds, and when she heard them. They say it will take about four or five days.

The search is about 80 percent complete according to Maj. Ed Locke of the Nevada National Guard. But that is not to discourage people from wanting to help. Although there has been no sign of Fossett or his plane after ten days.

Searchers are on the ground combing through an area where two witnesses saw a plane fly into a canyon and not come out. CNN.com states, “The Civil Air Patrol suspended its air searches Thursday because of high winds. They were scheduled to resume Friday.”

Fossett went missing on Labor Day and since that point, “hundreds of rescuers and dozens of aircraft have taken part in the air and ground search effort, which encompasses the rugged high desert in western Nevada and eastern California” (CNN.com).

Volunteers have been using the Fossett MTurk project to help find any sign of him. The MTurk allows people to use to find crash sites. People all over the world have been calling in with information.
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People have been there to help find Steve Fossett; detailed satellite imagery is now available.

Now six days into the search for the still missing Steve Fossett, Amazon has joined to help. Volunteers are able to search through newly taken satellite pictures of the Nevada desert where his plane would have gone down.

So far, searchers have found a half a dozen unknown crash sites, but have not found Fossett’s plane.

Richard Branson started using Google Earth to search for his friend. Amazon has set up a Mechanical Turk project, [Steve Fossett MTurk Project]. You can help too, please review the instructions carefully and join the search for Steve Fossett.

Adventurer Steve Fossett Missing. || Fossett still missing has Branson worried.

This is a funny clip from Hertz, not everyone has navigation systems like Hertz.

Simple and focused idea with a great commercial as execution.

Pretty good commercial from GM OnStar.

Pulling star power from Tiger Woods, Kelly Ripa, Jimmy Kimmel and an average Joe…a great way to promote the product.

I’m not sure why they pick these 3 (besides Tiger)

I also like that they used the music and style from Guy Ritchie’s,  Snatch.

Here is another really good ad from Garmin.

We have posted most of the ones we can find here on DHADM.

Just do a search (upper left) and you will find them.

Garmin makes some great equipment and I will buy Garmin again when it’s time to get another GPS device.

My Nuvi350 works perfectly, I just wish my Sirius was as reliable.

Here is another version of Total Eclipse of the Heart that should not be missed (btw- i think this video has been put to about 20 songs). Makes me think of Perfect (1985) staring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Best version of Total Eclipse of the Heart ever from the movie Old School. NSFW

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Garmin goes wild with a rock out, action adventure commercial that’s just a trip.

The Garmin holiday commercials are so catchy and perfectly done, which makes them hard to beat. This quirky concept is definitely a effort to go beyond a typical tech spot and push in a entirely opposite direction.

The Garmin web site highlights the characters of the commercial, odd stuff. Lower right hand corner ”The Battle Continues”. They have certainly put some effort behind this latest commercial.

I still love my Garmin, even walked around with it downtown a few weeks ago, navigating while on foot. So cool.

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