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The internet’s favourite teacher Vsauce comes up trumps, this time on the subject of linguistics, so prepare for your mind to be blown. Again.
He should make himself available to take requests, so if any time you need to find an answer to something and Google is just too much effort, you can ask Vsauce.
Dan bull aims his lyrical weaponry at the gaming industry’s increasing infatuation with downloadable content.
Alongside him is the celebrity YouTuber and voice of impotent nerd rage Boogie2988.
Call me cynical if you like, but I reckon this was just an elaborate way to claim a bunch of iPads as a business expense.
Actually, that’s not a bad idea. Excuse me, I’m just off to the apple shop then to E-Bay to make my fortune.
Everyone has their own personal favourite Alien movie, but I’ve never met anyone who didn’t love at least one.
Provided nothing goes disastrously wrong this prequel is set to be awesome. If this trailer doesn’t excite you then you’re not right in the head.
By turning rooms into pinhole cameras, these guys project the outside world onto the inside, blocking out all the light except for the small amount let through through the pinholes, the city outside merges with the interior of the apartment.
The effect creates a collage of tactile and projected, turning upside down buildings into surreal reflections of kitchen implements and planting a row of trees jittering on apartment walls. It’s pretty fly.
If you ever wondered what the citizens of the Grid might do for a night out watching some musical theatre, then it might look something like this choreographed performance by Japanese dance collective Wrecking Orchestra.
It’s a feast for the eyes and after watching it you’ll be forgiven for wanting to scream with excitement, like the kids you can hear in the video.
These days most us conduct our love lives through a laptop, whether that be Skyping your other half across the divide of continents or whether the love affair is between you and your computer. But when your computer starts playing up your relationship can hit the rocks, which is why an upgrade is essential every now and then.
4 SSD Angels took 1 ex-ambulance & 50 Samsung 830 SSDs and went to find out, traveling around in an ambulance replacing crappy hard drives with pimped up solid-state drives.
Ever played Uncharted? Well, now you can win the chance to meet the creators of the PlayStation® game Uncharted and create your own in-game multiplayer character for Uncharted 3.
All you have to do is audition and prove you are as good as Nathan Drake. Impress the judges and you go in the running for the final prize!
Game development studio Quantic Dream just upped the game when it comes to virtual acting and interactive story telling.
The guys who brought the world the PS3’s “Heavy Rain” are showing off how far they’ve come since then with this amazing short film about a fembot production line in our AI future.
Even Bats has to cut loose and hit the town every now and then, ride the subway, meet his public, generally hang about and shout at people in an angry way.
So here he is caught on film out and about in Canada, going to Starbucks, getting his photo taken with his fans, joking with the police, buying beef jerky, partying. Good times!
Ever wondered how it feels to be moments away from stepping onto the stage and performing in front of a roaring crowd? Sony is inviting you to immerse yourself in this electrifying atmosphere. Enjoy a multi-dimensional journey featuring a seamless mix of fast-paced imagery, combining photography and ground breaking three dimensional sound.
Grab your headphones and join this exciting audio-visual journey created using 3-Dimensional sound – technically known as binaural – that will make you experience rock stardom.
If you want to learn about the whole Superman narrative arc that went on over the last 70 years or so without having to laboriously read all the comics, then this is your opportunity to do just that.
You can learn all about Supes and his past and what it’s taken for him to become the man of steel that he is today. Amen.
Let’s face it, insurance premiums suck already, so we definitely don’t need jerks jacking the rates up even more by staging fake accidents or submitting bogus claims. But who says insurance claims can’t be fun?
The folks at Spencers Solicitors, who help innocent victims of genuine claims get compensated, created this fun little game called ‘Should they claim?’ where you watch a series of real YouTube accident videos and vote on whether they’re fake or genuine.
Fancy turning that weak-sauce laser pointer into a sweet-ass lazer cannon that will be the envy of the neighbourhood? Yeah you do. Well here’s how.
In just a few short minutes you can turn a doggy distraction into a doomsday machine.
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