Samsung Stunt Offers Free Galaxy S4 If You Can Stare at It for 60 Minutes [Video]

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Posted May 27, 2013 at 8:06pm by Shalom Levytam

Samsung set up a stunt in Zurich where it promised a free Samsung Galaxy S4 to anyone who could stare at the device for 60 minutes straight.

The challenge used the technology behind 'Samsung Smart Pause' (which when watching a video will pause when you look away) to detect when eye contact was broken. As if staring at a screen for an hour wasn't hard enough, Samsung also introduced numerous crazy distractions to make things more difficult.

Find out how people in Zurich used their eyes to win a Samsung Galaxy S4 of their own. It's inbuilt Smart Pause function means the S4 knows when someone is looking at it. The longer a participant stares at the screen, the bigger the discount is. But watch out! The game ends the moment eye contact ends. An S4 was handed out for free after 60 minutes.

Take a look below...

[via Dee]

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Solomon Mollel - May 29, 2013 at 2:46am

Wow,good technology! I need one,how can i get it? and how much?

Annoyed - May 28, 2013 at 8:18pm

I'm done with the iPhone. Stuck due to contract. Come Feb 2014, bye bye iPhone.

Mab - May 28, 2013 at 2:36pm

Impressive! Brilliant idea! Long live Samsung

Simon - May 28, 2013 at 1:58pm

Stop the presses! Samsung finally used an original idea! As much as I hate gagsung, I really liked the marketing strategy. Now if they can only continue to be original.

Sam Masin - November 20, 2013 at 11:55pm

Tell That to the last 5 Iphones

dark_destroyer - May 28, 2013 at 9:57am

Very clever marketing

Saul - May 28, 2013 at 7:10am

That looks challenging besides I like both android and iPhone. ^_^

sharifgd - May 28, 2013 at 2:40pm

me too, I like both android and iPhone

dc7f594 - May 28, 2013 at 5:35am

I would have sold it and bought iPhone :X

idevice - May 28, 2013 at 9:52am

great answer :))))

Ben - May 28, 2013 at 4:38am

Very very cool! That kicked apple in the junk!

Peridot - May 28, 2013 at 3:31am

At last they did something genuine. Not copying Apple. Keep up Samsung!

Miguel - May 28, 2013 at 1:57am

It's a useless feature, but the add is nice...

demesne - May 27, 2013 at 11:53pm

For once, I did like their marketing.

JR - May 27, 2013 at 11:32pm

1 hour???!!!! I spend 9 hours looking at my phone everyday without even blinking... Anyone can do this for an hour

Ken - May 28, 2013 at 1:22am

9 hours without blinking? No job?

Dan - May 27, 2013 at 9:52pm

Very cool

Samsung Design LOL - May 27, 2013 at 9:44pm

You win Samsung, Galaxy S4 looks so ugly I can't watch it for more than 5 minutes.

No ma'am - May 27, 2013 at 8:53pm

Awesome. Very clever.

iH85CH001 - May 27, 2013 at 8:33pm

I have to admit... Apple is not this cool... ;(

Nitro Junkie - May 28, 2013 at 4:41am

Apple doesn't need to do like this to get customers. Or commercials bashing competitors like Samsung does.

Konsorte17 - May 28, 2013 at 8:27am

sounds like you have never seen all of apple ads, the way they use to bash Windows back in the days, and how they actually sue windows claiming they copied OS X and they lost the sue lol...I'm not a samsung fanboy cause I actually own an iphone 5 and nexus 4...But if Samsung would stick with the original Android OS and stop using plastic to make their phone, they would whip iphone in a heart beat....

p000ter - May 27, 2013 at 8:17pm

Kinda cool I think.

justabrake - May 27, 2013 at 8:16pm

Sounds like three card Monti