Way Cool from Adidas

by Whaleoil on December 20, 2009 · 3 comments

from Mash­able

If you’re Adi­das and you’ve got a Star Wars–inspired col­lec­tion rolling out in Jan­u­ary, what bet­ter way to pro­mote it than by using social media? Adi­das, how­ever, has taken its online mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tive one step fur­ther inte­grat­ing Face­book and Google Maps to cre­ate the Star Wars Death Star Super­laser.

The Adi­das Orig­i­nals appli­ca­tion uses Face­book Con­nect to per­son­al­ize the appli­ca­tion expe­ri­ence, even grant­ing you power over the Death Star con­trol deck so you can blow up your Face­book friends’ streets with help from Google Maps.

The appli­ca­tion expe­ri­ence is straight out of a Star Wars movie, and on the first go around you’ll notice that your loca­tion is the first tar­get of the super­laser. After your street is blown to smithereens, how­ever, you can tar­get a friend’s loca­tion by select­ing any one of your Face­book friends to attack. This is where the Google Maps inte­gra­tion comes into play; you can even fine tune the laser’s exact tar­get using Street View if you so desire.

I took out the Pinko Blog­ger from Wellington.

Targeted DPF at Beehive with Deathstar

Tar­geted DPF at Bee­hive with Deathstar

Beehive and DPF gone

Bee­hive and DPF gone

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crabby December 21, 2009 at 2:10 pm

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wicked! goes per­fectly with the lightsaber App for iPhone / iPod touch

caleb December 21, 2009 at 10:36 pm

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lol.

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