Samsung Uses an Impressive History of Nerd References to Sell Galaxy Gear
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Your typical commercial: something that shows how your life will be made easier with the product in question, suggest you might get laid, or at least feel an adrenaline rush.
(Well, that or it shows a stupid dad being outsmarted by his brilliant wife who bought the right thing. But let’s politely ignore those; they mostly air during daytime soaps anyway.)
Not so with Samsung. Sure, they could show you why you need a smartwatch…or they could show you an entire history of nerd icons from Dick Tracy to the Power Rangers using a wrist communicator, then be all “Guess what? It finally exists now! You. Future. Living in.”
Okay, so I probably shouldn’t be writing their taglines any time soon. But check out the awesomely geeky montage after the jump. As the image above suggests, Brian Blessed is in it. And that makes it a Blessed Event.
h/t Gallen_Dugall
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist