Two commercials and an interesting use of prepaid phones

I ran across a few items over the past few weeks that I didn’t think fit into full posts. So, on a glorious Friday, I’ll dump them on you all at once. We’ll start with Boost Mobile, which plans to promote its brand during the Super Bowl with a new ad. Super Bowl commercials are usually a big thing, though I thought they lost their luster years ago. As we learned last week, Boost plans to play off the Super Bowl Shuffle, a bit the 1985 Chicago Bears recorded. They plan to bring back a few originals, and I will be clearly disappointed if William “The Refrigerator” Perry isn’t among them.

Speaking of commercials, here’s the latest from MetroPCS. I saw this running the other day while at the gym. It’s pretty terrible.

Not exactly viral marketing there.

Finally, if you’ve ever wanted a remote starter for your car but didn’t want to lay out the money to buy one, you can check out this hack, which uses a prepaid phone to get the job done. It’s complicated, sure, and I don’t recommend anyone by the most technically astute to try it. Still, it’s an excellent and cheap solution.

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