Category: YouTube Video of the Day
VIDEO: Lock and unlock your door with a Nintendo controller
Got an Arduino, a spare CD-ROM drive and an old NES lying around? How do you feel about making yourself a nifty security system out of it?
It’s not as ridiculous as it sounds, and Instructables has the ‘how-to’ guide. You’ll also need a webcam, small speaker, and a bunch of random wiring. Soon, you’ll be foiling would-be intruders with your geek skillz.
Nintendo Keyless Entry System (via CrunchGear)
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YouTube Video of the Week: Extreme Gymnastic Bullfighting
This week’s YouTube video (actually from Break.com) involves some seriously impressive, yet foolhardy, leaping acrobatically over angry bulls. Just looking at them running full pelt at the terrifying creatures makes me wince inside…
Former videos of the week: Swedish Chef cooks a turkey | High Five
YouTube Video of the Week: Swedish Chef cooks a turkey
Hurdy gurdy hurdy YouTube video of the week. Hurdy gurdy hurdy Thanksgiving special. Hurdy gurdy hurdy Swedish chef from the muppets. Hurdy gurdy hurdy cooking a turkey. Hurdy gurdy hurdy happy holidays/have a good weekend…
SHOCK: Seagate releases rap video and it's actually pretty awesome
When technology and rap meet, the results are usually catastrophically awful, but this… this is damn catchy. Seagate has sponsored a track – “Computer Friends” [Stack the Memory], made by the Sniper Twins, who are a pair of New York rappers that make awesome 8-bit influenced tracks. “Check out Salad Wrap”, on their MySpace, too. All together now… “it’s been a while, baby, on a thirty day trial, lady…”
Seagate (via TechCrunch)
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YouTube Video of the Week: High Five
Not sure if this one passed me by or it’s just been a very underground cult classic but a mate of mine, with whom I share a particular passion for the high five, sent it my way. It’s usually the power I go for but these guys have got the style…
YouTube Video of the Week: Moving treadmill
Okay – I’ve seen some stupid inventions in my time, but this really takes the biscuit. It’s a treadmill that – get this – moves along the road as you run on it. Like the treadmills-in-World of Warcraft video, but in real life. Your fake running gets translated to real movement. How’s that for a waste of time, energy and the planet’s precious natural resources?
(via Burbia)
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Creepy robotic head copies your facial expressions
This is a damn creepy robotic head, put together by researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He’s called “Jules”, and can watch your facial expressions and copy them. In the video above, he’s copying the expressions of the scientist behind the camera, while you hear the scientists’ voice.
Dunno about you, but this one, for me, falls firmly into the uncanny valley. Especially if it was copying my facial movements exactly. It’s a bit like that friend everyone has who doesn’t quite ‘get’ social interaction and always behaves a little bit odd. Robotics is great, but we’re still some way off realistic human expressions, it seems.
(via the Daily Mail)
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YouTube Video of the Week: French bloke chain-surfing
The first 20 seconds of this video aren’t necessary, so skip forward, but then you’ll see some rather impressive chain-surfing. I once tried to do the same thing at school. I nearly had to have stitches.
Former videos of the week: Suantum of Quolace | Solar Furnace
YouTube Video of the Week: The Suantum of Quolace
Today’s video is an alternative theme song to the new Bond film, written by Joe Cornish, one half of BBC 6Music, and formerly television, duo Adam and Joe. Quantum of Solace comes out today and I was lucky enough to get to see it last night. Without wanting to subject you to spoilerrrzz, it’s good, but it’s not a patch on Bond at his best in the 70s and 80s. Maybe that’s because I prefer silliness to gritty realism in films…
YouTube Video of the Week – melting steel with a 'solar furnace'
This is a clip from James May’s Big Ideas, where the Top Gear presenter gets to see a ‘solar furnace’. He tries a sausage. It nearly explodes. Then he melts steel. Using the sun. Awesome.
Previous Videos of the Week: Terry Tate: Office Linebacker | Computer history via interpretive dance
