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The first ever video on YouTube

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:52:49 +0000

This clip - featuring YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim making a bad joke - was the first video ever to be posted on YouTube. As Darren Barefoot points out, "It's interesting how much this video predicts the vast majority of YouTube videos: a young person speaking in direct address to the camera. He's not in his bedroom, but otherwise it's utterly typical."

Sour's "Hibi no Neiro": A crowdsourced music video

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:41:03 +0000

Check out this music video for Japanese band Sour and their new song "Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of Everyday). It involves 64 fans from around the world dancing in front of their webcams. Imagine choreographing that!

[via The Next Web]

Nearest Tube: An augmented reality app for the iPhone

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:27:51 +0000

Nearest Tube uses the iPhone 3GS's video and compass features to point Londoners to their nearest tube station. From acrossair (its manufacturer):

"When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons."

Play More Notebook

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:44:26 +0000

Love the Play More Notebook by Trapped in Suburbia...Once you've done with your note, simply scrunch it up and play with the basketball/football/tennis ball/baseball/pool ball that results.

[via whitezine]

SURFACE: A film from underneath

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:19:51 +0000

SURFACE is "an experimental film, exploring the emotional journey from an underground urban perspective".

[via Likecool]

Mister Furry

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:38:04 +0000

MTV's Mister Furry, by Universal Everything.

wells&more book flips two ways

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:50:10 +0000

wells&more's brochure shows the reader graphical content when flipped in one direction, and high gloss architectural photography when flipped in the other.

[via swissmiss]

Zygotes: Interactive beach balls

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:26:52 +0000

Tangible Interaction's Zygotes are lightweight helium filled orbs (think beach balls) that respond to human touch - changing colour and generating different sounds as they are punched, tapped, slapped or squeezed. The video above shows the crowd at ACM SIGGRAPH Vancouver playing around with them. (They've also appeared at a Chemical Brothers pre-show in Bucharest)

Tokyo subway manners posters

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:07:32 +0000

A collection of posters that remind Tokyo subway passengers to mind their manners.

Theft-proof umbrella

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:33:54 +0000

Mac Funamizu's latest product concept is designed to combat umbrella theft - which is quite common in otherwise crime-free Japan, according to core77.

Lego Arcade

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:07:11 +0000

Relive some classic video games from the 1980s - including Frogger, Space Invaders and Pacman - in this Lego-based stop motion animation.

Fancy Fast Food

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:49:13 +0000

Fancy Fast Food gives actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants (like Burger King and White Castle) and gives them an "extreme makeover". Believe it or not, the above is a McDonald's Big Mac. No additional ingredients have been added.

Contour Blinds

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:10:41 +0000

Love Helena Karelson's Contour Window Blinds (which are currently on show at D&AD's New Blood exhibition).

Freakishly tiny drill

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:36:33 +0000

This miniature drill, posted by a Flickr user called S8, serves no obvious practical purpose, but, hey, it's still a darned impressive feat of engineering.

[via CrunchGear / Make]

The Outlet Wall

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:28:10 +0000

From David Friedman:

"Instead of hiding your outlets behind furniture and worrying about the mess of wires tangled behind your entertainment center, consider making an entire wall that's nothing but outlets. Then you can artfully plug in your appliances wherever the cords look pleasing to you."