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Tech companies need to learn from other industries and give out a quality item people will want to use rather than trash that ends up in a desk drawer or dumpster the day after the conference. I went to a weed industry conference once and 95% of the booths were putting out real Bic lighters with their logo on them. You bet your rear end those stick around in people's pockets and bags getting used on the regular. I can still rattle off a half dozen nutrient companies by name years later.
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super nailgun posted:Tech companies need to learn from other industries and give out a quality item people will want to use rather than trash that ends up in a desk drawer or dumpster the day after the conference. I went to a weed industry conference once and 95% of the booths were putting out real Bic lighters with their logo on them. You bet your rear end those stick around in people's pockets and bags getting used on the regular. I can still rattle off a half dozen nutrient companies by name years later. MS should give out boob mousepads with that anime character they were using to promote IE or Edge
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super nailgun posted:You bet your rear end those stick around in people's pockets and bags getting used on the regular. I can still rattle off a half dozen nutrient companies by name years later. i have no idea what sulcrate suspension even is but i will gleefully take a notepad shaped like a giant pink stomach, and I LOVE BRAND is a small price to pay
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Shmoocon had a pro drybag as their bag this year and it's actually waterproof. There were also like 4 different flashlights. Also I never run of of bottle openers because security conference-goers are all massive alcoholics.
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super nailgun posted:Tech companies need to learn from other industries and give out a quality item people will want to use rather than trash that ends up in a desk drawer or dumpster the day after the conference. I went to a weed industry conference once and 95% of the booths were putting out real Bic lighters with their logo on them. You bet your rear end those stick around in people's pockets and bags getting used on the regular. I can still rattle off a half dozen nutrient companies by name years later. What's a $2 item that the tech industry can't live without?
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May 27, 2019 16:50
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USB drives, but as noted in this thread it's apparently stupid to use one you get at a conference
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May 27, 2019 16:53
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a mouse bungee is a thing i'll never not have now, but they aren't $2
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Fayez Butts posted:What's a $2 item that the tech industry can't live without? Fatty Crabcakes posted:ur mom
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Father Jack posted:i got a maglite from ontrack once, that was pretty good reminder to take pictures of my USB drives one's a wrench and the other is a fire hydrant lmao
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 Someone from Google Corporation, LLC was giving these away at GDC 2011. I haven't used it yet, but the plastic has fingerprints on it. Any ideas?
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based on the google promotion pattern that might be the biometric prints for any number of vps so it might be its own secfuck
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i like pens with old logos and defunct companies branding can’t have too many pens tbh
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i went to a thing that wasn't so much a conference as it was a Google sponsored event to educate people on promoting their brands using search and maps. there was at least a 1:2 google employee to attendee ratio. it was like going to a cult meeting. i took home three pens and a tote bag.
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Fayez Butts posted:What's a $2 item that the tech industry can't live without? Roosevelt posted:MS should give out boob mousepads with that anime character they were using to promote IE or Edge
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ewiley posted:Shmoocon had a pro drybag as their bag this year and it's actually waterproof. There were also like 4 different flashlights. Also I never run of of bottle openers because security conference-goers are all massive alcoholics. yeah once I dumped out all the vendor leaflets from it to fit in my suitcase a week later it was pretty nice
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dont really go to conferences but i took it upon myself to visit defcon and got this cursed thing
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Hunter2 Thompson posted:dont really go to conferences but i took it upon myself to visit defcon and got this cursed thing 
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Sagebrush posted:USB drives, but as noted in this thread it's apparently stupid to use one you get at a conference i guess there's some risk, there's been things like ipods shipping with windows malware after all. if you're someone who would be likely to be personally targeted then think twice i guess, but otherwise taking one from the pile that some big vendor are giving out doesn't seem too wild
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https://theusblightercompany.com/products/black-usb-candle-lighter got one of these. solving the problem of not worrying about keeping a 30c gas station bic charged
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PCjr sidecar posted:https://theusblightercompany.com/products/black-usb-candle-lighter  get hosed. you can huff all the butane you want and the only thing that's gonna hurt you is that it isn't oxygen.
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I won a pair of pretty decent headphones once but there is no topping the guy that won a HP printer and immediately traded it on the floor to someone who won a remote control tank
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My colleague got a nice ms tablet at an aws thing
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i got modern warfare 3 (for some reason?) at a dev conference which i took and returned to a store for credit to buy something else
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Sagebrush posted:
*huffs up a bunch of tar and nicotine* HEH SURE AM GLAD I USED THIS USB LIGHTER AND DIDN'T SUCK UP ANYTHING TOXIC!
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i am not going to try this
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i wouldn't suggest it, but the idea that butane is "toxic" is entirely false. it is rated an NFPA 1, meaning it is likely to cause only acute skin irritation (and that would be for exposure cold liquid butane). danger #1: inhaling butane means you don't inhale oxygen and that is a bad idea danger #2: inhaling butane might mean you explode if there is an ignition source nearby. q.v. my usual rant about misuse of toxin/toxic (poisonous compounds generated by biological processes). ricin is toxic; petrochemicals are poisonous
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Sagebrush posted:
the us blighter company dot com
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Sagebrush posted:q.v. my usual rant about misuse of toxin/toxic (poisonous compounds generated by biological processes). ricin is toxic; petrochemicals are poisonous but petrochemicals are generated by biological processes too
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sun microsystems keychain pen, super useful after like 10 years and a couple ink refills it broke so I got a different keychain pen off of amazon that’s smaller but isn’t as good
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https://twitter.com/attritionorg/status/1226630447804776449?s=21
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Lain Iwakura posted:post your favourite conference swag that is crap I had one of those Java Rings from one of the first Java Ones
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rotor posted:I had one of those Java Rings from one of the first Java Ones birth control ring for nerds (got one too, and the USB programming cable)
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Lain Iwakura posted:i got a lock pick set from a conference that fits in a wallet ha I bet I have the same set and don't use it for the same reason. was this from googles recruiting thing between blackhat and defcon?
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my favorite thing I got was a bouncy ball that lights up when it hits stuff from HP. my kid loved it. I was excited for a battery I got but it broke instantly and that was sad
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:that people can sell dreamforce backpacks on ebay for $30/pop amazes me it costs like 5 grand to attend so
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chewing gum is a solid one. they should give out gum
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