Toastbook

Walking to the subway station I saw a an advert with a weird looking notebook on a big poster, but the design is very familar to me, so I decided to take a closer look.

It is a MacBookPro with a unusal thick screen and toasts falling into it. Next to it the hashkey “Toastbook”. This picture manipulation is not very professional, because the laptop’s frame looks quite unrealistic and the visible screen content is not designed by somebody having or using a Mac.

The promotion of trade and industry start2grow.de wants to help young start-up companies in the IT segment.

And now, “tada” (yes, this word was chosen by intention, and if you know why, then you are a real nerd, compliment!) one of the big sponsors surprisingly is Microsoft trying to pinch Apple.

It enables you to select a music style like from a library containing jazz, rock, swing and some others. Then it starts to play a ground beat and you just begin to record your singing voice into a microphone.

Afterwards, Songsmith analyzes everything and will add furthermore instruments like chords to the song. It also does some intros and outros as you may know from any hobby keyboard.

The software itself is quite cool for people getting into music, but let us have a look at their video advertisment on Youtube.

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Do you know what is hiding behind the flower power sticker?

Perfectly matching Microsoft‘s compaign “I am a PC“: Yes, it is a MacBook Pro by Apple!