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As I live in the UK I don’t watch any daily US shows. But this one I saw on digg and is a sort of parody of the Xbox 360. It is hilarious.
This sketch was on last night’s The Daily Show (Comedy Central), and I just had to share. So what exactly is this years [...]

This is one of those ‘must buy’ gadgets. Essentialy it is a kit that comes with all the parts and instructions on how to make your own car that runs on water. The final product is shown above, and though it is small and can’t go very fast, it is cool to see something run [...]

This is so unbelievably addicting. The idea is you click on the different icons, and depeding on the order you click on them the cube will develop and the levels will increase. But it is really hard getting them in a logical order. Nijne, has managed to finish it all the way with everything at [...]

This is actually on google video, but I thought it was so funny. A woman takes her computer into her local Best Buy and gives it to the ‘Geek Squad’ claiming that her computer is eating her CD’s. Well it turns out from the video (and the pic above) that what she was doing is [...]

You may have seen on some shows such as MythBusters and CSI (which both rule!!) that they use a special ballistic gel to stop the bullets and see how far they go into the gel. They use some special liquid which later sets, but of course this isn’t available to the public. So this guy [...]

This is yet another cool camera thing.
Using an FX-1 psuedo HD Sony camera, (its 1440 pixels, which is Sony’s anamorphic short-hand for a 1920 16:9 image,) placed sideways, I filmed Yoshi as he rotated on a turntable in front of the camera. The bank-robber cap was his idea. This resulted in about 1200 frames of [...]

This is really cool. I’ve never seen anything of this sort. The idea is you glue a disposable camera to a sheet of cardboard and then write instructions on it. You also write a mailing address so that people who handle the camera at USPS (United States Parcel Service - Like Royal Mail for the [...]

This is a cool application that I spotted on digg. You just use a ‘pencil’ to select areas with the colour to you would like them to be, as in the image on the left above. It then works its magic to ‘colour’ it in, seen on the right above. Since it is for Windows [...]

I saw this on Engadget and I just had to laugh. All the cleaners at a Slovenian casino were fired because two of them used vacuum cleaners to steal around $500,000 from the slot machines.
Apparently the two ladies used industrial vacuums to steal the loot at night over several months, although casino officials cannot actually [...]

Tech news is always a bit dry on the weekend so I found something a little off topic, but still interesting. These are not tricks, but rather things you can do…

If your throat tickles, scratch your ear
Clear your stuffed nose!
Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
Breathe underwater!
(For an extra 10 seconds than you’re normally used [...]