The talking window

Train passengers who are bored during their travel tend to lean their head against the window. To capitlize on this moment of boredom and promote the Sky Go mobile app, BBDO Germany with the help of Audiva, a company that specializes in bone conduction technologies (i.e. the conduction of sound to the inner ear through the bones of the skull) developed a special transmitter that could be attached to the train window for a completely new form of public transport advertising.

As seen in the below video, these special transmitters released the Sky Go message through an inaudible high-frequency vibration that got translated to sound by the brain.

Frozen Cinema

Fiftyfifty is a gallery based in Düsseldorf, Germany, that is actively trying to help out those less fortunate and homeless.

To simulate what it would be like to live on the streets, they got cinemas in Germany to turn the airconditioning to 8°C / 46°F. Then they showed videos of homeless people on the street commenting on the cold cinema experience. It turned out that for them 8°C / 46°F was cozy.

This reality check for the people pushed them to scan the QR codes on the blankets and donate some money to keep the homeless people warm.