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Half man, half billboard
japanprobe.com - 8/24/2008
Half man, half billboard
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Hange.jp , a mobile phone gaming site that’s been running some pretty cool ads on trains lately, seems to have a pretty cool ad up in Shibuya: People walk past a half-body statue in Shibuya, Tokyo’s main shopping area, on August 22. Online Game Company NHN Japan has set up a series of these statues to promote the mobile game site hange.jp. When people touch the statue’s arm with their mobile ...
Half Man Statue to Promote Mobile Game
textually.org - 8/25/2008
Half Man Statue to Promote Mobile Game
— textually.org — People walk past a half-body statue in Shibuya, Tokyo's main shopping area, on August 22. Online Game... Company NHN Japan has set up a series of these statues to promote the mobile game site hange.jp . When people touch the statue's arm with ... (more) Half Man Statue to Promote Mobile Game

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KDDI's Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box [Concepts]
gizmodo.com - 8/22/2008
KDDI's Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box [Concepts]
— gizmodo.com — The KDDI AU Design Project bunch over in Japan have stumped up with this latest concept phone... for music cellphones of the future. And it blends two things we like a Giz: funky cellphone tech and Transformers . In fact Box To Play is less "robot in ... (more) KDDI's Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half ...
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Half Man Statue to Promote Mobile Game
textually.org — People walk past a half-body statue in Shibuya, Tokyo's main shopping area, on August 22. Online Game Company NHN Japan has set up a series of these statues to promote the mobile game site hange.jp. When people touch the statue's arm with their mobile phone, the application site will automatically open and a lucky winner will be rewarded 10,000 U.S. Dollars. [Foreign Policy via Japan Probe] ...

Cell phone gamers hunt down $10,000-prize-giving statues in Shibuya
DVICE Atom Feed — ... passersby visiting one of Tokyo's most heavily trafficked shopping districts an added incentive to find the statues. HanGame is guaranteed to get an impressive number of hits, and maybe a few people checking out their games who wouldn't have. As a side note, those statues look amazingly lifelike, don't they? The wrestler's face especially. Chalk up another one for the impressive precision of Japanese artistry, even for video game ads. Foreign Policy, via Japan Probe, via Textually

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