Durex Has an Idea for How to Spend Your Lights-Out Time During Earth Hour

Turn the iPad off and get it on

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Earth Hour—a worldwide event where people turn off their lights to raise awareness of energy consumption—will be March 29 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. in your local time zone, which Durex says is a great time to use its product.

The condom brand's newest ad is remarkably sweet, which seems to be a trend for the category these days thanks to Trojan's surprisingly subtle creative and Gun Oil's tear-jerkingly romantic lube ad. It features several couples engrossed in technology—tapping on iPads, talking on phones, playing video games—and then shutting it all down for a little old-fashioned adult activity time, without the need for lights or even any live tweeting.

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