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Uncategorized Monday, August 1st 2011 at 2:41 pm

iPad Head Girl is Marketing Gone Creepy

There are two shocking facets about the image above. First off, there’s a woman walking around New York’s Bryant Park in a helmet completely covered in iPads. She’s part of a viral marketing campaign to promote the new Cosmo for Guys iPad app. The second — and most shocking — aspect of this story is that Cosmo for Guys is a real thing.

Setting aside how Cosmo content translated for men appears to come off as creepy and misogynist  (that’s a story for another day, possibly another site), it’s a pretty clever campaign. The iPad helmet displays video from the opposite side, and feeds an outside view into glasses worn by the model. Brave fellows who walk up and touch one of the four fully-functional iPads trigger the Cosmo for Guys app. Get it? It’s the app that let’s you get inside a woman’s head! Not creepy at all!

We’ve probably not seen the last of this campaign. iPad Head Girl has her own YouTube channel after all, so new locations and videos are probably a given. But the real winner here is probably the obscure fetishist (you know he exists) who always wanted to play Angry Birds on a woman’s face. Weirdo, your time is now.

(via Gizmodo)

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  • Matori

    Yes, let’s just continue promoting the idea of women as public property and reward men for touching a woman’s “face”. That’s a great idea. 

    This is the grossest thing ever.

  • Citizen

    …? What are you on about? I bet you’re a blast in social events.

  • Citizen

    Many years from now, our offspring will look back on the technology and trends of today. They may happen to stumble upon this video and think, “The people of 2011 were idiots.”

  • http://www.smallfish-bigpond.com/ Kerensky97

    Is Cosmo for Guys going to have the same structure as normal Cosmo?  As in having guys write articles about what girls really want?

    Because I already have a friend like that.  Apparently what girls want is him; he can tell because they smile at him (when he stares them down) and apparently that means “Do me now!” in women speak.

  • David

    Ah, so that’s what it’s for.  I happened to be at Bryant Park that day a couple weeks ago, and I was wondering why they were making a lady walk around with her head encased in iPads when it was 100F outside :P  Luckily there was an assistant keeping her cool with a handheld sprayfan thing.

  • Anonymous

    People like you worry and think way to much to properly enjoy life. Just relax.

  • Anonymous

    Who gives a shit about getting in their HEAD?  make her sit on the damn things!

  • http://twitter.com/pounddollarsign Michael Corey

    Shouldn’t you be cooking something?

  • Anonymous

    Obligatory remark about how feminazis like you couldn’t possibly understand the appeal of violating a woman’s physical boundaries because you obviously don’t understand men’s charm, wit, rugged good looks, and purely innocent intentions, and command to make me a sandwich. Now, beeyotch.

    Marvel at my rugged masculine cleverness.

  • Anonymous

    What a waste.  Gee a Girls magazine for Men?  What guy wants to waste time reading that trash?  What genius came up with the ‘I-diot Pad Girl’?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

    And people like you are the reason why people get away with treating women like property – if a woman ever objects, “oh, she’s just uptight!”  :-/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

    Feminazi?  Are you seriously equating a woman wanting to be treated like a human….to murdering Jews?  *SERIOUSLY*?

  • Anonymous

    Okay, just to be very clear, I am a woman, this was a sarcastic remark. I decided to take a poke at all those “make me a sammich” comments. “Feminazi” is, IIRC, a Fatty Rushbo-coined phrase in common use amongst the “I hate women except when I’m fucking them” set.

    Yes, it’s a mean old world out there, and someone has to make fun of it. SERIOUSLY.