GPS Cell Phone in Soda Can Form 301
Myko writes "PhoneScoop.com reports that Coca Cola has unleashed a new GPS enabled cell phone for a new promo. Apparently the user will push one button which will auto dial a Coke rep that will tell them they won an SUV. They'll then press and enable the GPS and the prize squad will drive to their location with the prize. So the big question is, will the phone give off any residual waves that will allow custom made detection equipment to find the right 12 pack, similar to the tilt and win iTunes trick? :)" We mentioned this last year, but it wasn't clear how the GPS-in-a-can trick was going to work.
This is nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Another satisfied Sprint customer, I see.
DAMMIT (Score:5, Funny)
Hardware Hack Time! (Score:3, Funny)
next (Score:5, Funny)
First words Coca-Cola rep hears... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In the can? (Score:3, Funny)
I do. Could you send me any more details/tips please?
Flying (Score:5, Funny)
I can imagine flight attendates augmenting the usual shpill:
We ask at this time that you turn off any cell phones, laptops, PDAs and GPS-enabled soda cans....
Like Lemmings off the cliff (Score:4, Funny)
Just my luck. . . (Score:4, Funny)
(Me, opening can:) Hey - I think I won!
(Flight Attendant:) "At this time, please turn off all personal electronic devices.
Your flight crew will inform you when it is safe to use approved electronic devices in flight."
(Me:) --AARRRGGGH!
Just look for the coke can... (Score:5, Funny)
Stock up before that trip (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Connections so clear you'll notice a pin dropping. *
(* That is, if it's a really heavy pin and it impales your foot. Sprint not responsible for infections as a result. Do not try at home. Not for internal use.)
Re:Just my luck. . . (Score:5, Funny)
"Speedup damnit, that guy has to be doing a few hundred miles per hour!"
If you could discreetly... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Just my luck. . . (Score:1, Funny)
As an alternative, why not press the button while on an adventure holiday in the Amazon rainforest...
How to have fun (and see yourself on the news) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No Purchase Necessary? (Score:3, Funny)
Make Coke work for it (Score:5, Funny)
Who ever wins should mess with them by finding to the most remote location they can get a cell signal before pushing the button. Go to Nome, or Yellowknife, or park a boat offshore somewhere.
Re:Off the air... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I won a Coke prize once (Score:3, Funny)
Boy am I thirsty (Score:3, Funny)
GLURG GLURG SPLORK COUGH CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE
<DEATH>
*ring* *ring* *ring*
Hello there, you've won a free SUV! Sir?
Re:Cola Contests (Score:4, Funny)
Must... resist.... can't....
IRS: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
(Yeah, I suffer from SDWS... slow day at work syndrome)
Re:What If? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Second words Coca-Cola rep hears... (Score:5, Funny)
"Congratulations, you've won..."
"No, no, fuck that, I paid for 12 cokes and I got 11 cokes and this talking plastic thing."
"Ummm...car..."
"Bitch, I'll cut you!"
great prize (Score:2, Funny)
Use a police band scanner... (Score:2, Funny)
This is exactly what happened in Toronto a few years ago with a similar promotion involving milk cartons wired with a piezo speaker and some electronics to make the carton "moo" when opened. Someone got one of these and presumably had no idea that a mooing carton indicated a winner, so they left it on a table in a cafeteria with the speaker wires partially pulled out.
The clean-up staff, apparently also not keen followers of popular culture, saw a milk carton with wires and electronics inside it, and they called the bomb squad, who efficiently blew the carton to blazes.
Here's a link [thefartherside.net] for Snopes and the other skeptics: