Entries tagged with 'Coca-Cola'
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If the meager choices at a standard soda fountain aren't enough for you, there's hope in sight. Coca-Cola is testing a fountain system that can dispense more than 100 beverages from the same machine. [via Engadget]...
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Coca-Cola Light is about to become the sexiest soda around. Fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has created these three animal-print bottles for the beverage, giving it a sensual status symbol look. The limited-edition bottles will be available in Italy from September to December. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have to console ourselves with the boring old bottles of Diet Coke....
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Photo from sanchome on Flickr. The only thing better than a regular robot is one that doubles as a Coca-Cola vending machine with scorpion-like pincher hands. The logistics are unclear—does it really vend cola cans? Is there a person tall and strong enough to wear this bulky suit? File this under times I wish I was a Japanese school girl outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo to see this weirdness walk by....
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Check it out: Coca-Cola is rolling out its classic contour bottle in a two-liter size, starting in Birmingham, Alabama, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Consumer tests reported that the shape facilitates pouring. (Fun fact: Did you know the contour bottle is one of few packages to receive a federal trademark from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?)...
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More than two dozen public-interest groups are calling the Federal Communications Commission to address what they call "advertainment": TV programming they say is chock full of product placement. Led by the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC), the movement aims to prevent TV programs from becoming "Trojan horses, carrying messages that would otherwise be criticized by the public or even deemed illegal": These organizations cite as cause for concern a Nielsen report indicating a 13 percent boost in product placement spots on network TV last year—over 25,000 placements in the top ten shows. If you watch American Idol on a regular basis, you saw over 4,000 product placements in 38 episodes this year, CCFC says. In May 2007, the...
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Seeing your favorite soccer team score a goal while drinking a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola will probably make you want to hug someone. Even if that someone is an aging rock metal musician, or a man with chainsaws-for-arms, or covered in bees. Thus is the power of sports fanaticism paired with a refreshing carbonated beverage. Watch uncomfortable hug after uncomfortable hug, after the jump....
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The Super Bowl is about so much more than football. It's also about commercialism! After the jump watch six examples of food-related commercials from yesterday's Super Bowl that range from "funny and witty" to, "That was kind of horrible, why did I sit through that?" Check out more Super Bowl ads at myspace.com....
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Image from Under Consideration If you're a Coke head, you've probably seen a change in the soft-drink giant's packaging in the last few weeks. As old stock rotates off the shelves and new product takes its place, a cleaner look arrives with it. I'd wax poetic about how much I appreciate this simple, dignified aesthetic, but the design blog Under Consideration sums up my thoughts exactly: They've essentially done absolutely nothing. All the extra bits and doodads and extraneous graphics are gone. Classic coke imagery: the red, the ribbon, and the coke script. "Classic" is even in a simple lowercase sans serif. This is a confident design. Coca-cola is acknowledging that we all know the product, so just drink...
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The soft-drink giant asked researchers at the UK's University of East Anglia to test a theory that the fizzy drink might help prevent anemia in women: Sixteen women volunteers are being asked to eat cheese and tomato pizza and then drink Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, or mineral water to see what effect the drinks have on the way the body absorbs iron. Dietary iron deficiency can be a factor in anemia. Photograph from Meanest Indian on Flickr...
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Coke decided to relaunch Cherry Coke this month and they did it by hiring the design team behind Rocawear—hip-hop legend Jay-Z's uber successful clothing brand—to redesign Cherry Coke's packaging as well as creating that of the new Cherry Coke Zero. I think Cherry Coke's palette of pinks and cityscape are really pretty, but Cherry Coke Zero's packaging is rather clever—the same cityscape in black, and cherries with holes (zeros) punched into them. (You can read more about Cherry Coke Zero over at BevBoard or discuss it in our Serious Eats: Talk thread.)...
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