From Morning Filter (Sept. 24, 2013), Marketing‘s daily morning newsletter
Tesco to launch tablet
Turnips, toilet paper and now tablets. British supermarket chain Tesco is introducing Hudl – an Android operated, seven-inch tablet that will sell for £119 (or approximately $200). The device comes with a slew of built-in apps including YouTube, Google Chrome and a Tesco “launcher button” that allows users to check their loyalty club points, watch movies on the chain’s Blinkbox system and listen to music.
[Read more via Reuters]
Google builds new site to search constitutions
Reading Google’s newest blog post will make you feel like a chump about however you spent your weekend. It posted about Constitute – a new online tool it has helped create that digitizes constitutions from around the world and makes them searchable – on Monday. Not as proud about that lingering brunch and dry cleaners pick-up anymore, are you?
[Read more via Google’s Official Blog]
Reading Rainbow resurrected as app
Reading Rainbow, PBS’s beloved television series, is getting a modern day makeover thanks to its one-time host LeVar Burton. His multimedia company, RRKidz, has developed a Reading Rainbow app to pick up where the show left off when it was cancelled in 2009. The app allows children to explore a book through “video field trips” hosted by Burton before reading it, among other options.
[Read more via Bookish]
Unfortunate Pepsi ad in Hong Kong
A transit ad promoting a collaboration between Pepsi and the clothing label Bathing Ape is making the rounds due to a misnomer created by the chosen font. At first glance the ad reads “Pepsi x Rape” rather than “Pepsi x Aape” (A Bathing Ape) as intended. Click through to see the ad.
[See more via imgur]
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