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[ev type=”youtube” data=”Rwtu77p4U_w”][/ev] A self-taught surreal video producer, Koichiro Tsujikawa was commissioned by Panasonic for the 2004 Olympics to make this forgotten video. Tsujikawa’s videos are always unique. He is also known for doing music videos for electronic band, Cornelius, with stop-motion video effects. This video was just too cool to pass up. Check out this half runner, half motorized ...

We’ve never stopped and thought about stuff like this. With social networking running rapid online, what other ways can we show social networks? After analyzing data from one high school, scientists have come up with this chart. Showing how sluts and pimps connect those whom otherwise wouldn’t be connected. As you can see, the largest area of the chart is ...

In proportions that only a fashionista could appreciate, designer Louis Vuitton, in fear that his $1000 handbags wouldn’t earn him enough money to put food on the table, has taken the idea of stylistic advertising to a whole new level. Taken in Paris by a member on Flickr, these gigantic Louis Vuitton proportionally spectacular bags line the store fronts of ...

We’ve been hearing too much about what SonyEricsson has under its sleeves, rumor has been going on about the next announcement which could be as early as this week (if not up till CeBIT). This morning we spotted new non-photoshopped photos of an unannounced SonyEricsson Walkman-branded phone on a forum, so far no word on specification, but we are sure ...

While making our rounds scourging the Internet, we came across this spiffy hack for your Nintendo DS. Using an asymmetric wavelet codec specifically made to playback video on the DS ARM-based hardware (whatever the hell that means), this Flickr member has managed to capture this image of the Nintendo DS video hack, running on his handheld. Flickr member, Gwire, says ...

“Now any true gangsta’ knows, nobody be messing wit’ our iPod and shit.” That’s probably something like the mentality these kids at Germantown High School were under when they beat the living hell out of a teacher who had taken away their iPod. We’ve talked about the lengths at which people would go for their iPods before but we can ...

[ev type=”youtube” data=”ALQwmQrM-Z8″][/ev] ActionCorp TV has this excellent video of Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at MacWorld being dissected and analyzed for all the slight minutiae and variations of the interface that was shown. There’s one point in the video where the speaker can’t quite make out a button on the calendar function. We’ve figured out that it says “Today”. Check ...

With most mobile companies working their hardest to improve battery life and charge time, there are other options popping up as well. This patent for Kinetic power phones would make recharging as easy as shaking the phone, an idea explored in the past only as a concept by ModeLabs. The kinetic energy to electric energy technology is not new in ...

This cool kit gives you everything you need to create your own four-legged, spider-like robot. The Joinmax Digital Quadruped Robot Kit packs in an intermediate level DIY project, with 8 servos for enough degrees of freedom to explore and experiment with the robots motion and gait. The only thing not included in the set that an amateur robotics builder would ...

Star Trek fans will be happy to know that the original Star Trek movie’s Spock Spacesuit is up for grabs on eBay. The spacesuit was featured prominently in the Star Trek first movie when Spock leaves the “Enterprise” to perform a mindmeld with the “V’Ger Probe”. The suit itself has a interesting display of ridges and rivets over the knees, ...