We all remember that feeling when you were a kid on Christmas morning and you unwrap the gift of your dreams. Sheer joy just pulsates through you as you scream with jubilation. Then, you grow up into an adult, you mature, have responsibilities, kids, a mortgage, and lose that sense of excitement when it comes to opening presents.

Because lets face it, the gift of socks is just not that exciting. But the thing is, that’s not strictly true. Because somewhere deep inside of you that excited kid still exists.

All you need to release him is if you get a gift you really, really want, then you might let out a little squeal of delight. Or jump up and down, or throw yourself onto the floor and start flaying about wildly overcome with happiness.

That’s what happens to these people as they unwrap the epic screen that is Samsung’s Quantum dot SUHD TV.

And, well, you can’t blame them for being so enthused. Because the Quantum dot technology ensures they get one of the best picture displays currently available. Quantum dots are tiny particles, 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, that emit different colors according to their size.

Robot technology has just taken one step closer to becoming reality, the next gen of SSD cards has arrived and, according to this video, it can turn into a robot, travel the world at incredible speeds and charm the pants of any woman. But maybe those last three should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Oh yeah, it can also run your computer pretty damn fast as well, but that doesn’t seem too much of a biggie for the new Samsung 850 Pro.

Introducing Victo the robot, powered by SSD 850 PRO with 3D V-NAND, the first SSD available to the consumer that uses Samsung’s 3D V-NAND technology, which stacks memory cells vertically. What does that mean? Well it means you get greater capacity, speed, endurance, and more effective power usage.

It means that SSDs can continue to follow the trend for higher performance while remaining reasonably priced. 3D V-NAND tech can copy data at twice the speed while using only half the power of its predecessors.

SSD cards are measured in nanometres (nm), and while most of Samsung’s competitors are getting thinner, heading towards 16nm, Samsung has gone with 40nm for the 850 Pro. Which makes it tougher—it comes with a 10 year warranty!—far exceeding other SSD cards on the market. It also has 150TB of total bytes, the highest for any consumer SSD.

So if you are looking for an ultra-fast computer and something that might start making a play for your girlfriend when you are not around then this could be what you need.

For the full lowdown on this world-leading SSD and to see how highly it performed in tests, take a look at Extreme Tech’s comprehensive review.

When you choose a buddy, just make sure they are the real deal! Just like Buddy the dog, the good thing about him is that he’s the sort of pet you could get if your skills at looking after animals aren’t up to scratch. Like, you forget to feed them for instance.

The bad thing about Buddy is that he’ll not give you the companionship that most people seek from a pet, that sense of interaction. You know, the fact that they’re actually the real thing!

Ever seen a bear do its laundry? Probably not because they don’t like to air their dirty garments in public, they’re far too sophisticated for that. But this camera crew managed to capture the rare moment when a huge brown bear comes out of the snowy wilderness.

Probably to take time out from all that grizzling, drop its fat pants, and take them for a spin. Not even Attenborough caught that on tape.

Loading Ball Larry puts his annoying spin on everything he touches. You’re probably already familiar with his work: He’s the guy who crashed your app, right before you hit save.

The jerk who turned that ten-minute task of yours into a full hour of frustration—spinning, spinning, spinning your day away. Stop Larry before he grinds your world to a halt.

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Samsung’s new YouTube video campaign may move away from pushing specific products and devices, focusing on its memory solutions, but the company appears to be finding it incredibly difficult to move away from taking a bite out of Apple.

The campaign centers on the frustrations that device owners may experience with their mobile phones, tablets, computers and even televisions. To do this, it uses three fictional characters to portray these experiences – Battery Brutus, Loading Ball Larry, and Fiona Freeze.

Like a movie trailer, each character demonstrates how modern devices are affected by battery drain, low memory and times when something will just freeze

And for the most part, the campaign is quite enjoyable to watch — except for the not-so-subtle Apple bashing in one of the videos.

Samsung is quick to point out that many devices suffer from the above issues, but the Loading Ball Larry short uses Apple’s iconic spinning beachball to illustrate how computers and tablets struggle with low memory.

Maybe not as ruthless as its previous campaigns, but it will surely draw the ire of Apple fans and device owners.

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MEET FIONA FREEZE

When you feel the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up for no reason, Fiona Freeze isn’t far behind.

She strikes without warning, and always at the worst possible moment. Watching a playoff game? She’ll freeze your device in the closing seconds. Giving the biggest presentation of your life? Just try to hit the next button—you know she’ll stop you cold.

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MEET BATTERY BRUTUS

You know him. He knows you. And he knows just when to prey on your devices. Like when you’re stuck on an airplane. Without a plug. In the middle of a movie.

Battery Brutus is the man who’ll cut off your calls, kill your camera, and put an untimely end to your favorite show without batting a greasy eyelash.

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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.

And to think, science-fiction told us the machine uprising would come from defense technology, but no, as ever reality is far more ordinary. You’re just un-boxing your new Central Station monitor, you’re excited, you got some new gear, then the technological singularity slaps you in the face.

Next thing you know we’re being grown in pods while our mechanical overlords are harvesting our bioelectrical energy to snack on. Time to fight back.

NASA might be able to put a man on the moon, but they haven’t launched a DIY weather balloon full of 200 paper planes into space yet, carrying messages from the world’s populace on hardcore SD Memory Cards, to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere–36,500 metres up–and paper-bombed Germany with them. That’s innovation!