Woz recreates "awesome" commercial for charity sale
Woz, always ready to entertain for charity's sake, has remade his old 280Z commercial ("It's awesome," if you didn't remember from the last time you watched it) to promote the charity sale of his Nissan 350Z. Unfortunately, rather than split-screening it, the old commercial fades up for the "awesome" line, so we don't actually get to see 2007 Woz talking about how awesome his car is. But he more than makes up for it with some nice lipsyncing, a short Segway ride, and the inclusion of a Weird Al song. Roll on, Woz!
The sale itself is to benefit the IEEE lab at UC Berkeley, because Woz says that "on a global scale we are seeing America losing its competitiveness in engineering and technical skills. That is disappointing." And in addition to picking up Woz' own car (too bad it's not the Prius), you get lunch with the man himself, and the opportunity to "talk about anything that interests you."
Surely that's worth the $100,000 he has listed for the sale, right? But it is for charity. If you've got an extra $100,000 sitting around, there are probably worse ways to spend it.
[ via Macenstein, who has a very brown redesign going on ]
The sale itself is to benefit the IEEE lab at UC Berkeley, because Woz says that "on a global scale we are seeing America losing its competitiveness in engineering and technical skills. That is disappointing." And in addition to picking up Woz' own car (too bad it's not the Prius), you get lunch with the man himself, and the opportunity to "talk about anything that interests you."
Surely that's worth the $100,000 he has listed for the sale, right? But it is for charity. If you've got an extra $100,000 sitting around, there are probably worse ways to spend it.
[ via Macenstein, who has a very brown redesign going on ]














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-11-2007 @ 5:41PM
Christina Warren said...
If some fanboy ends up actually shelling out $100Gs for this, I think we need to start a collection for a hooker, because homeboy needs to get laid. I'm in for $20.
Still, cool video.
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9-11-2007 @ 6:17PM
dave said...
That video...is awesome!
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9-11-2007 @ 7:20PM
Darren said...
That was actually really well done. Nice.
And that Segway really moves.
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9-11-2007 @ 7:40PM
Frank said...
ok, that kicked way more ass than i was expecting. i wonder why they went back to the old one for the kicker line? it would have been, uh, awesome if he just recreated the whole thing.
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9-11-2007 @ 8:20PM
Tyler Whitesides said...
OK. I love you Engadget, but could we post a little less on the life and times of "the Woz", hes just a fat has-been that no one really wants to hear about. But seriously, other than that I LOVE YOU GUYS.
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9-11-2007 @ 9:15PM
Macskeeball said...
@Tyler Whitesides: For one thing, this is TUAW, not Engadget.
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9-11-2007 @ 9:41PM
Tomahawk said...
Woz just dropped the price to: $49,050. I would buy it if I lived in Cali and had 50g to throw around.
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9-12-2007 @ 6:40AM
Gar said...
I like his Segway dismount - step off the back as the Segway continues on.
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