Curious/Impressive Videos Category

Google Doodle Showcases Total Lunar Eclipse [If You Missed the Total Lunar Eclipse, Check Out Google's Latest Doodle, Where 100 Minutes of Eclipse Footage Has Been Compressed Into a Few Seconds]

By on Wednesday, 15. June 2011

Much of the world saw a total lunar eclipse early dawn of June 15 (or after midnight, depending on where you are). If you missed it, you can relive the experience with Google’s latest Doodle.

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Darth Vader is Android Spokesperson in Japan [Japan's NTT DoCoMo Is Using Darth Vader in Promotional Materials for Android Powered Smartphones]

By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Luke … I am your smartphone. Whatever the message that NTT DoCoMo wants to relay to its customers, we can only hand it to them for creativity in choosing Darth Vader to represent Android in their marketing campaigns. But still, Vader isn’t exactly an Android, is he?

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iPhone 4, T-Mobile G2 & HTC Surround in EZ Grill Challenge; Which Will Last Longest? [Windows Phone 7 Outlives iOS & Android When Burned to a Crisp in an EZ Grill]

By on Monday, 15. November 2010

What do you get when you grill $1,879 worth of smartphones on a $10 EZ grill? A lot of geeks cringing in their socks at the thought of all that lovely gadgetry burning to ashes.

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Walmart Shopper Creates Chaos Smashing 29 LCDs [23-year-old Westley Strellis Taking Its Fury Out on Flatscreen TVs, Being Held in Jail Now]

By on Friday, 12. February 2010

We all have bad days wishing to crush everything that gets near us, but every sane person knows that letting go to such emotions could get you in trouble. “So what?” would say 23-year-old Westley Strellis who walked into a Walmart outside of Atlanta smashing nothing less than 29 flat-screen [...]

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iPad Considered a “Comedy Gold Mine [Apple's iPad Not Capable of Doing Magic, People Make Fun of It]

By on Saturday, 30. January 2010

I don’t know about you for us here on TFTS it’s pretty frustrating, as the device we’ve long speculated last year, the Apple iPad, has been unveiled this week and in a matter of hours has managed to disappoint.I’m not only talking about the fact that it doesn’t have a [...]

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Video: Mentalists Cover MGMT’s ‘Kids’ Using just iPhone/iPod Touch Applications

By on Tuesday, 3. March 2009

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch you have, quite probably, dabbled at some point with one or more of the many musical iPhone/iPod Touch applications – personally I managed to recreate Kraftwerk’s entire back catalogue in one evening doing just that, but I don’t like to blow my [...]

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Video – Anders Søborg’s DIY Lego Mindstorm NXT Colour Scanner [Self Build Lego Scanner Utilising HiTechnic Color Sensor]

By on Monday, 16. June 2008

It’s been a while since I built anything using Lego and, at the time of writing, I lack the child that would give me an excuse to purchase (especially) Lego Mindstorm sets en masse on their behalf (solely for their enjoyment, you understand) – but I certainly never got close [...]

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Video – Boston Dynamics Stunning BigDog Robotic ‘Pack Mule’ in Action [Hot To Trot, Climb, Skate & Jump]

By on Monday, 17. March 2008

Boston Dynamics have released new, remarkable video footage of their robotic quadruped ‘pack mule’ in action showing just how far developed this DARPA funded robot’s sense of balance has developed – even to the extent that it can maintain its balance whilst climbing obstacles and when loosing its grip on [...]

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Airbus A380 360 Degree Online Panoramic Flight Deck Tour

By on Thursday, 21. February 2008

Few of you will not know that the double decked Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger plane to see commercial production and even fewer of you are ever likely to see the A380’s flight deck in all its glory (especially in the worlds present security conscious climate) which is [...]

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Video – Cool Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset Advert Promotes Noise Shield

By on Wednesday, 30. January 2008

On a somewhat lighter note from our usual posts, we could not help but offer a brief heads up concerning this cool advertisement for Aliph’s Jawbone Bluetooth Headset which uses a bikini clad (and rather foxy) woman to promote the Jawbone’s Noise Shield Technology.

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