World's Funniest Fake High Tech Ads

It's time for your Sales Machine Friday dose of funny sales videos. Today we're paying homage to a true art-form -- the fake high tech ad. High tech companies spend billions of dollars every year hyping their products, making them excellent fodder for satire. I checked out about 100 of these fake ads. Here are the five that struck me as particularly funny.

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High tech firms often send out video press releases that harried television stations swiftly edit into ersatz "news." Here's an example of an Apple product that, frankly, is pretty much what I expect the company to come out with next...

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It's been said that truth is stupider than fiction, and as if to confirm that sentiment, Microsoft has actually built a computer product that's just about as silly as the keyboardless Macintosh in the previous video. Here's a satire ad for that (real) product...

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As long as we're on the subject of Microsoft, there's no doubt that Microsoft has a "distinctive" style of marketing. Here's a video showing how Microsoft might repackage the Apple iPod...

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Anyway, enough with the PC/MAC stuff. The following video shows an alternative to Twitter that's guaranteed to become a big hit on campuses and in business everywhere...

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And finally, a "how to" video illustrating how computers can be effectively used to fool your management into thinking that you're working. It's not really ad, per se, but it's funny, and its topical because chances are you've got your manager convinced that you're working right now, when you're actually watching funny videos...