Solo's bus stop ad enables life-size chatting with strangers

by Darren Murph, posted Apr 26th 2007 at 2:40AM

Hot on the heels of Nokia's own bus stop gimmick comes none other than Solo, which has erected a clever display on a number of waiting areas to allow perfect strangers to yap it up on giant mobiles. The interactive billboards each sport a larger-than-usual flip phone, which allows curious onlookers to mash an enlarged walkie talkie button and get on the horn with a faraway stranger. The active two-way radio setup was reportedly installed in transit shelters in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary, and the system supposedly connects users in the different cities to one another when a conversation is initiated. Unfortunately, Engadget HQ doesn't happen to reside in the land of the Canucks, so for our brethren in the north, why not stop on by and give a shout to a fellow Canadian, eh?

[Via Core77]

Filed under: Culture, Games, Handsets, Messaging, Others

Tags: ad, advertisers, advertising, billboard, canada, gimmick, marketing, montreal, radios, solo, strange, toronto, two way radio, TwoWayRadio, walkie talkie, WalkieTalkie

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Kevin @ Apr 28th 2007 1:50PM

That's a Sanyo 3100! First post! :)

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massive_98 @ Jun 1st 2007 7:15PM

I live in Calgary. Haven't seen any of these around yet. Cool idea but someone is going start smashing these walkie talkies to bits pretty soon.

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