The Brains Balloons Zune mystery solved
Written by Kostas Tzounopoulos   
Friday, 28 September 2007
A Limited Edition Microsoft-interns ZuneIt was coming from the unknown, it was a riddle, it was a Black (looking like Blue?) Zune with an image of a dinosaur-something holding some Brains Balloons(!) But now its only a common Zune thanks to Mr. IWantAPinkZune who destroyed all the mystery about it. EDIT: This a geniusaurus, and definitely a Black Zune...

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was discovered some time ago by a forum moderator of MSZune.nl, a Zune Community site from Netherlands. IWantAPinkZune just found this logo belongs to Microsoft's Internship page. Here is a blog post from the guy who won this Zune.

Here is the same logo from the Microsoft Internship page (for the non-believers): Microsoft Internships

 

The Microsoft Interns Special Edition Zune

And a photo of J Allard on that event. I had seen it before, but I had forgotten the logo you can almost see at the right of the photo. We would have solved the mystery weeks ago :) 

J Allard - Hey, Genius Microsoft Internships 2007

EDIT (October 2nd): Anatifero.us calls this logo a Geniusaurus, (sounds good!), and points as to hey-genius.com . His Zune with the Asian Characters Software-only hack to display Chinese normally:

 

The Special Edition Brain Balloons Zune (Asian Characters Hack)

 

Links:
hey-genius.com
Microsoft College Internships
Special Edition Zune on flickr
More J Allard photos from the "Hey, Genius" Event: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4, 5
MSZune.nl talking about this
His Master's voice

[via IWantAPinkZune ]

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