Anti-Piracy or Anti-Privacy? You Decide

Every day marketers are finding new ways to make money off of the everyday consumer. In one of my past blogs I talked about the HDMI industry and how product labels are designed to trick the consumer into purchasing a more expensive cable that does the exact same thing as a cheaper one. Another new [...]

Advertising tactics now taking cues from futuristic film Minority Report

Apparently I wasn’t the only person to be intrigued by the futuristic toys presented in the 2002 movie Minority Report, featuring Tom Cruise as John Anderton, the future-seeing special unit officer. Check out this clip from CNN that shows a new invention that will use facial recognition software to determine gender and age group in [...]