Pictures don’t lie, but you aren’t really seeing real people flying around New York City. And while I was hoping they might be real people with jetpacks, they’re actually remote-controlled planes built in the shape of human beings. The R/C humans were made to fly around various landmarks in the Big Apple, including the Statue of Liberty.

They were thought up by the marketing people behind the upcoming movie, Chronicle. And even though I have never heard of the movie until now, this ploy makes me want to go see it. Just because.

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Another is to get a pretty lady to walk around a New York park with an iPad for a head.

You didn’t read that line wrong: this girl has not one, but four iPad’s for a face. Wouldn’t you stare at her too, if you saw her casually strolling around in the park and finally settling down on a bench to read a book? (I doubt she’s really reading, though. I mean, come on, she may be iPad Head Girl, but even she doesn’t have X-ray vision.)

This was actually a clever marketing ploy by Hearst Publishing to promote Cosmo for Guys. To be honest, I’d give iPad Head Girl’s face a swipe or two as well, even though I’m a girl and not part of the target group for the stunt.

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It took a while before a guy really did go up to IHG and swiped her face for good measure, only to be treated to several pages of content from the Cosmo for Guys magazine. You go, IHG!

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Apparently, Chester dressed in a biker outfit and put on a skull mask, stormed into the office where other Dell folks worked and yelled at them all to get into the lobby while holding what some called “metallic objects.” Some of the scared workers called 911 and the SWAT team showed up.

The two were arrested and charged with Interfering with Public Duties and Deadly Conduct. The ill-conceived marketing stunt was to show off a new Dell Streak tablet that can interface with a Harley. I guess the guy in the mask was going for Ghost Rider. The part these two should be thankful of is that since Texas is a concealed carry state, they didn’t get shot. We can also be thankful Chester didn’t hone in on the “streak” connection and bust in naked.

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The screenshots don’t do it justice. You can’t quite get the effect of gold coins flying out at you and text bars going all wonky. You should definitely click through to see the video for yourself.

Once again, Wii, a tip of the hat to your brilliance. If only I could vote Wii for President, the choice would be so much easier.

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Taking some obvious inspiration from this earlier video game Post-it art, the colored notes were used to create pixelated versions of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and other gaming characters. Each individual note could be removed by passersby, revealing a small advertisement for the Wii’s virtual console.

From what I can find out, these photos were snapped a few weeks back somewhere in Italy. Hopefully, we’ll see this clever campaign rolled out to other locations sometime in the future.

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