Sky-High Ads Float Like Clouds
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The company uses re-purposed artificial snow machines to generate the floating ads and messages, dubbed Flogos. The machines can pop one Flogo out every 15 seconds, flooding the air with foamy peace signs or whatever shape a client desires. Renting the machine for a day starts out at a cost of about $2,500.
Designers use computer software to make a stencil that when placed into the snow machine, “cuts the foam in the exact right shape,” said Flogo inventor Francisco Guerra.
The Flogos are about two feet long and nearly a foot wide, and generally last anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on conditions in the atmosphere, according to the company.
“They will fly for miles,” Guerra said. “They are durable so they last a while.”
They generally bob to heights of 300 to 500 feet (90 to 150 meters), the inventors say, though they can rise up to 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) in the air.
Guerra says that Flogos are environmentally friendly as the soaps that make up the foamy shapes are derived from plants, and that eventually a Flogo “just evaporates in the air.”
“It does not pollute the skies,” he told LiveScience.
I disagree with your limited explanation of the word “pollute”.
April 17th, 2008 at 17:30
So, if I lay in the grass in my garden, look up to watch the clouds… maybe I will see a herd of Durex Flogos float above me? Thank you very much, I am NOT interested…