Youtube's Best and Worst in 4 Minutes

Some may contest to this Youtube wrap-up, but hey, this is a good primer! :D

Mickey Mouse Version 2.0

Mickey Mouse has gone so tech-y, the steampunk feel is really way behind the popular rodent's history.

Here are just some of the electronic items designed after Mickey that I have scoured on teh interweb (if only I can get my hands on these items...):

Mickey Mouse flash drive

Mickey Mouse and Minnie computer mouse

Mickey Mouse MP3 player

Mickey Mouse USB port

I'm sure there are loads more Mickey Mouse themed gadgets...

Images courtesy of Geekalerts, Uberreview and Sinewelectronics.

White Box by Makoto Yabuki

This video brought out the kid in me! Now I want to start doodling again! Hahaha.

Video sourced from Vimeo.

Lights On, Lights Off

Audi (automobile) says your car should save energy when it's not running. It's as simple as that.

It's better explained here, so watch the tvc!

*Image courtesy of Motiongrapher.

Ford Automobile's "Rear-view" Message

Wow. One look at this Ford ad and I get it! Fantastic messaging. I hope soon every automobile company will employ this feature on their cars. It will help reduce the number of deaths caused by accidentally backing a vehicle over an innocent kid playing by the driveway.

Copy:

Ford Expedition Wth Rear View Camera.

*Image aggregated from WPP and is copyright by ad agency JWT.

The Ten Commandments of Facebook...

...and that's according to TremendousNews! This list is hilarious so you may want to check it out. This one really cracked me up:

7. I will not make my profile picture a picture of myself when I was a baby.
Yeah, you were an okay-looking kid. There’s nothing grotesque about you, which is disappointing. But all kids look the same and you’re old now. Stop trying to recapture your fleeting youth by pretending you’re six again. Also, I refuse to engage in a serious wall-to-wall conversation with an eight year-old boy in a sweater-vest sitting on a staircase. Why do all baby pictures take place on a staircase?

Read the rest of the commandments by clicking here.

More hilarity at TremendousNews.

Parts of article/content aggregated from TremendousNews; Image aggregated from Lonewolflibrarian. Please contact them for commercial use of their content.

An iPhone Lost Is A Life Lost...

This is just sad.

I can understand the strict security measures with new product releases. But I don't think it has to end this way:

SHENZHEN, China — When a closely guarded prototype of a new Apple iPhone went missing at a huge factory here two weeks ago, an internal investigation focused on a shy, 25-year-old employee named Sun Danyong.

Mr. Sun, a college graduate working in the logistics department, denied stealing the iPhone. But he later complained to friends that he had been beaten and humiliated by the factory’s security team. On the night he was questioned, he sent an anguished text message to his girlfriend.

“Dear, I’m sorry. Go back home tomorrow,” he wrote, according to a message she later posted online. “I ran into some problems. Don’t tell my family. Don’t contact me. I’m begging you for the first time. Please do it! I’m sorry.”

Soon after, in the early-morning hours of July 16, Mr. Sun apparently jumped to his death from the 12th floor of an apartment building in what his employer, Foxconn Technology, says was a suicide.

Apple and Foxconn, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of consumer electronics and a major Apple supplier, issued statements last week expressing sorrow for the death. Foxconn said it suspended one security officer, pending a police investigation, and that the company was now considering counseling services for its employees.

Click here to read the rest of the story.

Parts of the article aggregated from NYTimes.com

Classroom Stripper

Now that's what I call "specialized education"! :-D


716 comments and counting, this photo's definitely a winner at Failblog.org :-)

We Choose The Moon

A friend of mine sent me a link to a very very very superly interactive site that lets users (as in, users around the world) see the real-time recreation of Apollo 11's trip to the moon (which happens to be John F Kennedy's ultimate dream). Well, it's happened, and We Choose The Moon is letting us experience the ride, first hand!

Do check the site out by clicking here--best viewed in Firefox. Please note, though, that optimal site experience is best achieved with a stable internet connection.

To the moon and back! :-)

The Energy Giant

Heart-warming short clip/tv ad about this gentle giant who toys around with earth's energy sources. And the giant looks a bit like Shrek!

The ad's tagline says: It can be so easy to make big things happen. When you're a giant.




Video source from Youtube user duccnguyen. Please contact rightful owner for the use of the video.

As If They Never Really Left Us

What would be the best way to remember your dearly departed loved ones?

By wearing jewelry with pieces of their human remains! But save yourself the panic attack because we're not talking gore stuff here. Anna Schwamborn, a design student, has created a range of jewelry containing post-mortem memorial pieces which include hair and cremated ashes taken from a corpse. (See sample below)


According to Schwamborn herself:

The objects are supposed to be worn close to the body of the mourner symbolizing a lasting physical connection between two individuals even after death. This collection is supposed to remind the wearer on the fragility and appreciation of life and most importantly, acting as a keepsake.

To see more of Anna Schwamborn's "everlasting" jewelry, click here.

This would probably make interesting conversations at cocktail parties.

Images aggregated from Dezeen.

Webcams for Music Video

Here's a very interesting music video from Sour. Sour is a Japanese post-rock band formed in spring 2002 by hoshijima (gut guitar/voice), Sohey (eub/bass), KENNNNN (drums/toys). The video for their single 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP' was made with the help of their own fans. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, of which many are from outside of Japan. Dig this: each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

So how did low-res webcam videos made this particular music video very interesting? Well, watch and see:




If you can't view it here, try clicking on this link.

Video source from Youtube. Video copyright by Sour's music label. Please contact them for commercial use of the material.

Found at Adverblog.

The Other Use of Personal Computers

For this anonymous guy, the other use for his personal computer or PC (that's running on Windows XP, if I may add), is to fry an egg, sunny-side up!

If you don't believe me, check out his step-by-step instructions with images by clicking here. Apparently it took him 11 minutes to wrap up the cooking. It's a no-brainer, actually, given how most hardware units fire up after three or four hours of running major applications, but I still don't think it's something I'd promote, so careful careful, guys.

Mac users, you must be all cheering :D

Image courtesy of the author.

The Skating Babies

With almost 2.7 million views on Youtube, this viral video for Evian is certainly one of the latest buzz on the net.

So is it cute, or creepy? ;-)

They remind me of that dancing baby in Ally McBeal!

The WayBack Machine

That may have sounded like news about the recent development on time travel technology, but really, The WayBack Machine is simply an archive of web pages, images, and even music! I personally find it very interesting because it has kept record of the changes of (most) major

websites on the internet from 1996 to present date. So if you want to remember how your favourite websites looked like in, say, 1997, just type in the url and hit "Take Me Back"!

To try it yourself, click here.

Here are some of the indexed web pages I have uncovered. Hahaha do you guys still even remember the old Lycos? ;-)

Yet Another Michael Jackson Tribute...

...but this time, in a form of flash mob!

Isn't it fantastic just seeing people dance in unison in the middle of a park? I mean, seriously. :-)

What's crazy is how these guys suddenly disperse after the chorus of Michael Jackson's hit song Beat It.

I guess this goes to show just how much people miss the king of pop.

Watch it and enjoy!




If you can't view it here on this page, view it on this link!

Video aggregated from Youtube.

Moonwalking Forever

Michael Jackson's death has spawned online tributes of all sorts during the last two weeks. But this has got to be my current favourite.

Eternal Moonwalk is a tribute site from the creative minds behind Group94 and Mortierbrigade for Studio Brussel. The site showcases uploaded videos of people from different parts of the globe, all moonwalking to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean beat sampler. Fantastic project, really, so check it out by clicking here!

Upload your video as well, if you can do moonwalk better than them :D

Would You Bite Into This Apple?

All I know is that I don't want to bite into anything that's sleeping or staring at me! :-P

Nice concept and execution--found at Maconlysource image gallery.

Youtube Vigilance

The things that we capture and upload...who knew that one of them will help bring justice to a person who was stripped of human rights in a rally in 2008?

The news from New York Daily News states:

"Victim in one of most popular YouTube "gotcha's" of 2008 sues NYPD for $1.5 million

The biker who was shoved by an NYPD officer during a "critical mass" rally last year, only to find a video of the incident uploaded to YouTube by a bystander, is now suing the NYPD for $1.5 million. Though the officer originally claimed that the biker had provoked the altercation during the rally, the video - which racked up over 2 million views - demonstrates otherwise."

The victim's lawyer was quoted as saying that "nobody would have cried foul if it wasn't for that video."

Here's the controversial video, which got 2 million views. 2 million views just can't be wrong, you know.

Parts of news aggregated from New York Daily News

Video source from Youtube

Linked from Citizentube

8 Bit Music

Are you an 80s child who grew up loving computer games like Goonies and Super Mario? Or were you a Game Boy slave in the 90s? If yes then you'd probably have a place in your heart for 8 Bit Music, otherwise known as chipstyle sounds. Can't figure out what I'm talking about? I couldn't embed the song file here but you can click here to listen to the music sampler. Prepare to be taken back to the good old days...

The song is produced by Random, and you can view his artist profile by clicking here. He is one of the 11 crew of this cool website 8BitPeoples, where their ultimate goal is to "just have fun".

According to the website:

"The 8bitpeoples first came together in 1999 as a collective of artists sharing a common love for classic videogames and an approach to music which reflected this obsession. Our primary interests were to provide quality music for free and most importantly to have fun."

But then you've got to see it to believe it. So go check the site.

Random also has his own website so don't forget to check it out: Random.se

Image aggregated from 8BitPeoples.

Random's music sampler hosted at 8BitCollective. If you go to the site, you'd be surprised at the large number of music submissions. Darn, I can't believe I almost missed out on this really cool website.