Today's Fresh Blogs...

• iPhone Keyboard Patents That Never Were

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Phones, 2120, 313, 500

  Those dudes at Apple sure love to patent things. For every patent they file that actually makes its way into a device that's sold to consumers, there have got to be 30 others that just sit there collecting dust, waiting for an opportunity to sue the pants out of the next guy to come up with the same idea. Case in point? Check out all these

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• Space-age Cockpit Gives You Bug-bot Vision

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Gadgets, 146, 827, 2120, 324, 169

  FuRo and Leading Edge Design, the guys who came up with the Halluc II robot have been showing off the little Linux beastie's moves, using their Hull cockpit. Boasting a 150-cm hemispherical screen which displays video from the camera embedded at the front of the robot, the cockpit has another little trick up its sleeve. Check out the two vids

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• David Lynch steps up the fight against litter

  Published: August 5, 2007, 4:23 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, Imports, Webwatch, You Tube, 21176, 2120, 53010, 38709, 53007, 7819, 7818, 53008, 10471

  If you wanted to create an image of litter and its dire consequences that would loom large in the already super-inflated egos of New Yorkers, who would you choose? Someone who can make the denizens of Manhattan so afraid to drop an ice-cream wrapper that they would carry it for miles until they found a trash can. Surely none better than the master

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• TV and football to tackle obesity

  Published: August 31, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, Itv 1, Itv 2, Itv 3, Itv 4, You Tube, 2117, 2120, 21617, 13816, 21616, 51979, 241, 675, 51458, 457

  The European Commission and footballing body UEFA have teamed up to launch an anti-obesity TV campaign - featuring a group of armchair-ridden couch potatoes struggling to play football - that will run during this year's Champions League coverage. The 30-second ad, "Go on, get out of your armchair", is scheduled to run 2,023 times during the

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• Channel 4 to air Christian commercial

  Published: September 10, 2007, 6:25 am

  Tags: Channel 4, Commercial Break, You Tube, 2120, 70052, 2314, 38602, 10949, 19222, 854, 12599, 241, 129

  Channel 4 is airing an advert from the Christian introduction programme, The Alpha Course. Apparently, the ad first appeared on digital channel E4 over the weekend (I wouldn't know, I didn't watch E4 over the weekend) and will be broadcast on the network's main channel during the first ad break of Brothers and Sisters, which airs on Wednesday at

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• Passenger steers bus into traffic

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:06 pm

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Police, Australia, Nsw, Pennant Hills 2120, Sydney 2000

  A bus driver has been praised after tackling a passenger who tried to take control of a bus in north-west Sydney.

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• Trailer Trash: Heroes II

  Published: September 19, 2007, 11:51 am

  Tags: Bbc 2, Coming Soon, Imports, Sci Fi, Trailer Trash, You Tube, 2120, 46645, 27750, 1824, 28589, 56504, 75178, 18535, 457, 2363

  I know we've already given you lucky folk one sneaky peak at season two of Heroes, but here's another one. This is from Canadian TV and unlike the American version is less concept, more action. As per the original trailer be warned if you are still watching Claire, Nathan, Hiro and co. kick ass on BBC2 as this will definitely spoil plots for

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• Brad Pitt Update - Still Working, Still Hot

  Published: September 24, 2007, 1:46 pm

  Tags: Brad Pitt, 277, 3911, 3912, 106, 291, 2120, 3329, 910, 3073, 3909

  It's no surprise Mr. Pitt's on the set of yet another film (here it's "Burn After Reading" in NYC) -- he and Angie seem to work non-stop. And it's no surprise that despite a little fake blood on his lip, he's still totally hot. How can this guy be 43 years old with who-knows-how-many kids and still look like he's 30?! Brad -

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• Trailer Trash: Ugly Betty, Channel 4, Friday 5 October

  Published: September 26, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: Channel 4, Comedy, Coming Soon, Drama, Imports, Trailer Trash, You Tube, 2120, 78434, 46043, 27750, 5744, 1824, 78436, 78437, 241, 18535, 675, 23895, 457, 2363

  We've grown accustomed to having to wait a while for our US imports here in Britain, but now with Prison Break airing on Sky One only a week after its American transmission, things could be gradually changing. Another happy example is that of Channel 4's hit comedy/ drama Ugly Betty. The second season is set to debut to US audience's tomorrow

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• Prison Break advert projected onto wall of real prison

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:45 pm

  Tags: Drama, Imports, Sky One, Tv News, 2120, 1824, 20421, 21794, 68870, 79307, 2958, 47836, 75737, 79309

  I have ranted previously about the ridiculous amount of advertising Sky One have done in support of their new acquisition Prison Break. But now the station has gone and done something bizarrely impressive in their need to tell the world they now own the rights to the jail saga: projected an advert onto the wall of infamous prison Wormwood

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• New Sony Bravia Commercial features... bunnies?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:04 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, Tv News, 2120, 58927, 64054, 10949, 147, 13564, 53585, 37594, 327

  Sony has unveiled its latest Bravia TV ad and of course, hoping that 200 plasticine rabbits running through New York will match their previous TV outings of bouncing balls and exploding paint. The spot, titled "Play-doh", follows in the footsteps of the sumptuous "Balls" ad' and the nearly great "Paint" commercials, by creating a strange and

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• Hastings Direct Commercial - Why?

  Published: October 8, 2007, 7:34 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, Why, You Tube, 2120, 21617, 54999, 75020, 10949, 83553, 15616, 241, 675, 457

  Advertisements are a notoriously difficult thing to get right. You have to convey the ethos of your company and all that you offer in 30 seconds or less. That said, it's also very easy to avoid getting it disasterously wrong too. Basically, if you do exactly the opposite of the advert below, you won't go to badly off the tracks. Don't get the

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• 24 star Kiefer Sutherland to do jail time after DUI arrest

  Published: October 10, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, Drama, Imports, Sky One, Tv News, You Tube, 6353, 47087, 2120, 28126, 44718, 157, 84824, 10949, 6200, 47047, 20421, 46096, 21794, 47836, 84825, 675

  After pleading no contest to drink-driving charges, it has been confirmed that 24 star, Kiefer Sutherland, will serve 48 days in jail. Producers for the real-time show have promised that this will not impact on production of the upcoming seventh season, but I wonder if they'll still have his character, Jack Bauer, putting the pedal to the metal

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• Why Ladbrokes advert makes me vomit

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:33 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, 2120, 81982, 81980, 1563, 43431, 81984, 86917, 69471, 81978

  Yes, a new advert featuring a bunch of footballers. I like football, but I don't like footballers. Hardly a revolutionary stance I grant you, but this ad... why I oughta. It features Ian Wright (who, not content with taking the Kellogs and other corporate bucks, is here in yet another advert), Lee Dixon (Lee, I expected more from you), Chris

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• Nadine Baggott's Olay Regenerist adverts - why?

  Published: October 25, 2007, 11:05 am

  Tags: Commercial Break, Why, You Tube, 2120, 1613, 90466, 10949, 90468, 90462, 90464, 90469, 2958

  What the hell is a celebrity beauty editor'? This is one of the many questions I find myself hurling at the television whenever Nadine Baggott intrudes upon my world on behalf of Olay. Nadine has popped up in a number of commercials for the company, patronisingly informing us ladies that she has discovered' pentapeptides (a word that Olay

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