Yes folks, brought to you by the voice of a Texan cow poke, the Hanbos Remote Control Jammer ‘once in the home’ ensures people can’t skip your ad on the TV.

Sweet viral madness this is inspired, check out the blurb from the site:

“HANBOS Industries introduces the patented XV-2083 signal-blocking chip. An industry first, it combines HANBOS’ latest molecular vibration mat processor with an electromagnetic radiation emitter to function as the world’s first self-activating television remote control jamming device.

The XV-2083 signal-blocking chip has clear benefits for marketers and those looking to improve sales without overspending on advertising. Once present in a consumer’s home, the chip neutralizes any attempt to change the television during your commercial, giving your company a 100% viewing rate, with no improvement to the actual advertisement. The XV-2083 signal-blocking chip. It’s inexpensive and it works.”

I haven’t got a molecular vibration mat processor in my home, but it’s clear I need one.

I salute you Hanbos and your viral insanity. My particular favourite is the team picture featuring some fellow beardies, Abba impersonators and mournful geeks.

Well done Springer & Jacoby International for clearly being drunk when you settled on the name for your company which sounds like you specialise in pedigree Spaniel seed.

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Interesting viral for a viral producer, which is surely a case of virals eating themselves whole and losing themselves up their own fundament.

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Via Drawn!

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‘There’s a hypothesis in robotics known as the Uncanny Valley. If you imagine a graph with the degree of realism a robot attains running across the bottom and with the amount of positive empathy it can generate climbing vertically then, generally, you see a positive correlation between the two, and an upward sloping graph. A the robot gets more human, we like it more. However, the Uncanny Valley hypothesis suggests that there’s a point where this breaks down; that there comes a moment where the increasing realism in something that’s still obviously a robot doesn’t create feelings of empathy and connection, it freaks us out. That’s one side of the valley. The hypothesis further suggests that as robots get yet more realistic then this effect diminishes, we effectively forget that it’s a robot and empathy returns. That’s the other side. Except no-one knows this because no-one’s ever built a robot that good.