Every year, google sends out a limited number of gifts to the highest adsense customers. Where exactly they draw the line between the top few that get the gifts and the others who just getting a passing nod of acceptance on the way past, no-one knows. But, irrespective of that fact, a number of people do get these gifts. And they’ve been getting better over the years too.
Three years ago (thats 2004 fyi), the gift was a ‘Mood lighting AM/FM Radio‘.
Yes. I Know what you’re thinking. Its pretty naff. But a present is a present, so don’t be a snob. I don’t know- you could put it in the bathroom I guess. Get some tunes while pooping. I suppose it’d be good for that. Maybe. If you want. I…. I wouldn’t, but its up to you.
But we digress. After the rather anticlimactic gift for 2004 Google upped the ante ever so slightly. This was 2005’s gift:
Now thats getting slightly better. If you can’t make it out the package contained a headphone/microphone set, a 128mb thumbdrive, a usb notebook light, a usb hub, a wireless travel mouse and it all came in a rather nice carry case. Bravo. This set of goodies is definitely more worthy of the postage.
So what about this year?
Will it be a usb mug warmer? A dancing usb santa? A big wad of usb money?
No. Its something far cooler.
Yes. Thats right. Thats its a digital photo frame! How good is that!
The specs of this are reportedly as follows:
- 3.6 inch TFT digital photo frame
- 960 x 240 TFT screen, 16 mega-color
- Picture: JPG format
- Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV and records WAV itself
- Video: ASF only
- Media: Internal memory and SD card, comes with sample slideshow in memory
- USB 1.1 interface
- Power: 4 AA batteries or USB 5V or AC/DC power adapter
Not bad for a bit of adsensing.
(And yes I know - adsensing is not a verb)
