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Tree Hotel

I was browsing on the internet when I stumbled upon this really unique hotel in Sweden. The hotel rooms are designed as tree houses and are around 1-2 rooms in each. We converted the price and it's about $600 for 2 people to stay in one of the rooms. I wonder who the architect was who built these because they're really fascinating. treehotel

Superbowl Advertisement

My favorite was the Doritos commercial with the goat. I thought it was memorable because it was really unexpected when the goat was screaming and the fact that it was a fan made commercial. In the Superbowl a 30 second ad costs $3.5 million. It was cool because they used a contest to find the best commercial and had people vote for their favorite to be aired. For a typical commercial they would have to pay actors, production crew, set locations, catering and an advertising company. Though, it was probably very cheap comparatively, but they paid the group that did the commercial $1,000,000 for winning the contest. In total the cost was probably about $4.5 million to produce the commercial.Assuming each bag of Doritos costs about $3, Doritos would have to sell around 1,500,000 widgets(bags of chips) to make back the money spent. I think it will help sell bags of Doritos, but not directly. I feel that they will sell a ton of bags either way.

The TED Challenge Part II

We chose the video, "Will our kids be a different species", because it deals with a big topic of how life will change in the future. It doesn't directly relate to engineering, but it talks about the big picture of mankind and how it could differ in later years. We think our video is very interesting and it would be an informational video for everyone to watch. At first we were going to use my video, then I decided that it was too broad and wasn't as interesting as some of the other videos.