Hey everyone, Check out these cool sites for some time-wasting fun! Cheers, The Interactive Team   What the SPAM??!! http://www.spam.com/ This site is absolutely hilarious! I guess when you get to the stage that SPAM is at with its brand you just have to give in and poke some fun at yourself. They even have a SPAMmobile that is venturing around the USA delivering all the goodness of SPAM to the masses. It's a pretty cool design and the videos have been really well scripted. In the SPAMFESSIONALS section there are "supposedly" user coments such as "I thought the SPAMMOBILE had wings. Because it's an angel of deliciousness!" Too funny... I loved it. Check it out.   Nothing to hide http://www.nothing-to-hide.co.uk/ Very amazing client to let this one through... in fact it supposedly is the client who is the star. The green screen streams are a bit average in transition but it at least brings "nothing" into the mainstream. In their own words "elave commissioned this risqué eye-catching method of communicating the serious message that elave has no worrying chemicals in its formulations and therefore ‘nothing to hide’. " I'm not sure how many clients will follow this angle for the sake of "hits" but it will be interesting to see...   Try the contacts http://www.accro-au-nitro.com/ Finally an addictive advergame. Perhaps it doesn't have much to do with the product it's advertising (a car), but it's different, sticky and definitely worth generating some word of mouth. What more do you want from an advergame? The concept plays with the idea of nitroglycerine/adrenaline, and therefore features a site full of testosterone to immediately get the attention of the right target audience. Even if the site is in French, finding the way to the advergame isn't very complicated (just look for "jouer" and/or "survoltez vous") but there's an annoying mandatory registration form to fill in in order to play. When you're in, use the spacebar to reach the right level of adrenaline, and then jump across the holes to get as far as possible... if you can, try to avoid the walls...   The Polaroid experiment http://www.polaroidlabs.com/ Polaroid has launched an advertainment website to warn users about the dangers of "glare". Through a series of "scientific" (!!) experiments they show how useful polarised sunglasses can prove when you play tennis (for example...). The concept reminds me a lot of the Slap the Mat site we saw a few months ago (the experiments, the unpleasant experience for the girl etc...), but it's less amusing. On the other side, Polaroid takes a step in the direction of user generated content, launching a challenge to share personal experiences with the sun's glare in order to win a pair of sunglasses. I know there's a lot of people out there looking for the 15 mb of fame, but I'm not sure a pair of shades is enough to generate such kind of contributes.   She has your eyes http://www.shehasyoureyes.com/ If you have a friend who's a kind of gigolo, and you feel like playing a nasty trick on him, visit www.shehasyoureyes.com, and take advantage of the service the site offers. The site wants to promote the use (and consequently the purchase) of condoms using a provocative approach. Through the site you can send your friend a video message featuring a young lady claiming she had a daughter from you... Buzz Focus Will Apple's iPhone reshape the mobile phone market? Are there better devices actually available already? CNet put the iPhone head-to-head with its competition to see how it stacks up. Gadget aficionados will no doubt have heard that Apple is launching the iPhone, its first mobile phone, in the US on 29 June. Here in Australia, though, we'll have to wait until next year to get our grubby mitts on the sleek multimedia device. Apple recently published information comparing its hot little handset with the already available Nokia N95, Samsung BlackJack, Palm Treo 750 and the Blackberry Curve 8300 (this last one hasn't been released locally yet). Apple also recently upped the stated battery life of the iPhone from five to eight hours of talk time, 250 hours of standby, five hours of Internet browsing, seven hours of video playback and 24 hours of audio playback -- 10 hours longer than Apple's hard-disk based iPods. But why is the iPhone generating so much hype? It's just a phone after all, isn't it? While it does have an elegant design and attractive interface, what could be in this device that's revolutionary? It was compared side-by-side with the N95, the top-of-the line handset from the world's No. 1 phone maker, Nokia. We've also colour coded our table to indicate in green which device's feature, in our opinion, comes out on top.   Apple iPhone Nokia N95 Operating system Mac OS X Symbian S60 3G No Yes (HSDPA-enhanced) Camera resolution 2 megapixels 5 megapixels Browser Safari Nokia Web Browser with Mini map E-mail Displays HTML-rich; Push IMAP (Yahoo); IMAP/POP3 POP3/SMTP Music player iTunes RealPlayer GPS No Yes Touchscreen Yes (multi-touch sensors) No Screen 8.9cm (320x480 pixels) 6.4cm (240x320 pixels) Weight 136g 120g Memory 4GB/8GB 160MB Processor speed Unknown 330MHz Expansion slot None microSD Replaceable battery No Yes MMS (for sending pictures and video) No Yes IM (instant messaging) No Yes Video capture Unknown 640 x 480 (30 frames per second) VoIP No Yes YouTube Yes Yes (with m.youtube.com) User can install 3rd-party apps No Yes Accelerometer (to change screen orientation when rotated) Yes No Spell checker Yes No Ambient light sensor (dims screen in low light) Yes No Proximity sensor (turns screen off when put up to your ear) Yes No Video output to TV No Yes Visual voicemail Yes No Threaded SMS Yes No Browse music by album covers Yes No Flickr integration No Yes Supports stereo Bluetooth headphones Unknown Yes Price US$499 - 4GB, US$599 8GB (~AU$590, AU$708) AU$1379 Locked to carrier Yes No Availability 2008 Now © 2007 Lowe Hunt. 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