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Vitaminwater advertising campaign includes free juice for your devices

by Michelle Haag on 16 Jul 2011 10:53 AM
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Vitaminwater Bus Stops

How many times throughout your day have you found yourself with a dead battery in your BlackBerry? A cool new campaign from Vitaminwater is underway in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston that aims to help out with this problem. Bus shelters in those cities have the interactive displays installed, complete with 5-volt battery powered USB ports that will allow commuters to plug in and charge up mobile phones, MP3 players, and gaming devices. If you live in one of these four cities, have you spotted one of these bus stops?

Source: Creativity-Online

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: charging solutions, Vitaminwater
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17 Comments

Posted by noTh1ng Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

thats one of the reasons why i own a blackberry :P i never run out of juice ;)

 
 
Posted by Abrante Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

+1, I get through a day comfortably with "juice" to spare on my 9780 :o)... Maybe BB's can become mobile "juice" swapping machines too. lol

 
 
Posted by buckwild Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

That is such a cool idea! Hopefully it'll be available in more cities.

 
 
Posted by gp48 Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

Maybe I'm a negative thinking American, but I can see people fighting over who gets to plug in. I'll watch the news to see if anyone gets stabbed over charging their device. I agree with the others, I'll carry my BlackBerry and never need charging throughout the day!

 
 
Posted by Abrante Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

+1, I live in a ghetto area of NYC. That will be a failure over here. I can foresee more than stabbings if an initiative like that makes it here. Also, since people around here don't seem to know the benefits of "uplifted" communities they might just put sharp objects to mess up the pins. Sort of like a rat that eats the wood and pisses on the nails (since it can't eat them) so no one can use them :o)

 
 
Posted by Emu the Foo Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

Haters gonna hate

 
 
Posted by narci Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

Your just asking to get jacked of your cellphone if you use this display.

Abrante: I vote that people will put thier gum in the usb port.

 
 
Posted by Zizzzzy Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 316 days ago

I give it one week before all the USB ports are plugged up with Gum

 
 
Posted by Jimcmf Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

See what he is charging up? An apple product.
My BB last me 1.5 days on Very Heavy use.

 
 
Posted by Caymancroc Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

I can see it now...all the Android users standing around waiting to fill up their dead phones. There will be no violence because, who wants a buggy laggy product with no battery life?

 
 
Posted by mwdavid Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

:) my bb last all day and still have half the battery left.

 
 
Posted by ELoXL Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

Sad to say, but as a Storm2 user I will be in that pathetic line as well, BUT......I would pray to god that someone comes along to rob me of that damn that right around the time the 9900 comes out just so I may have an excuse - lol. Believe it or not I actually have insurance for this damn thing.

 
 
Posted by Abrante Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

Ahhhh, the mighty Storm line of products. LoL, you should go around looking for one of these bus stops. Plug in your phone and walk away. It'll be there when you get back :o)

 
 
Posted by Rootbrian Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

They need those for Toronto :D

Vitamin water = snake oil. I know this, because you can achieve the same taste by dropping a few life savers candies in and once disolved, it tastes the same. Big waste of money, but the charging shelters are neat :)

PS. Battery powered chargers? Those will need to be charged, as they'll run down quite fast!!

 
 
Posted by Sashko Saturday, Jul 16, 2011 315 days ago

I doubt they'd be running on batteries, but more likely using the same source the lights within the bus shelters that light up the signs.

BTW hasn't anyone here heard of AA battery chargers for BlackBerrys? I barely ever run out of batt power on my BlackBerry, but when I do, that's my #1 fall-back. Ebay's got quite the nice variety of 'em for one (as do some other electronic stores) :-D

 
 
Posted by zensen Sunday, Jul 17, 2011 314 days ago

that's a pretty sweet bus stop ad but Im hardly carrying around a charger/usb cord with me.

My blackberry though seems to keep going and going but that's not to say I'll never get stuck with a flat blackberry :)

 
 
Posted by jlb21 Monday, Jul 18, 2011 314 days ago

I see scammers/fraudsters putting devices with storage/software over these (making it look like a port still) to try and siphon information off of your devices/smartphones.