Archive for the ‘YouTube Stuff’ Category
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
We might not be the first to have noticed this, but some wily person has taken an existing (and thoroughly amazing) video of a Stormtrooper dancing to ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ and added some rather snazzy CGI baby Stormtroopers in the background. Just watch…
Wonderful stuff. We’re getting Stormtrooper outfits for the next time that song comes on in the office (it could happen!). Particularly impressive reflections on the glass for the CGI characters – maybe George Lucas needs to take a leaf out of this book for any future SW tie-ins…
Tags: dancing stormtrooper, danny choo, mint royale star wars, singin' in the rain, star wars, storm trooper
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
I still believe that for Google to fully achieve their dreams of world domination, they are going to have to invent a battery powered “Google Car”. Yup. You heard me, I predicted it first. Anyway, crystal ball aside, I had a big, fat chuckle when I found this post about two BYU students who invented a “Motorized Couch”. This so called “chick-pulling” wagon puts Segways to shame. Who wants to stand up anyway?
Unfortunately, like all things schweet, it has been banned from the campus grounds. One has to wonder why the powers of learning institutions are always hell bent on banning stuff. When I was a brace-faced junior, side partings were all the rage (don’t laugh, I happened to love having curtain-esque hair covering my eyes), so they immediately banned long fringes, and then when too much gel was all the rage, they banned hair product. Short hair, long hair, gel, wax….. I really hope that pudding bowl haircuts become Jedward-like popular so they can finally ban them too.
Anyway, check out the video below, get inspired, and build one. I am looking forward to someone pulling up outside IWOOT towers offering to give me a ride home. Double points if it’s a lazy boy. Found on Geekologie
Posted in Cool Stuff, Driving Stuff, Found on the Interwebs Stuff, Funny Stuff, Random Stuff, YouTube Stuff | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Conclusive proof, as if it were needed, that the Paper Jamz Guitars are the future of rock ‘n’ roll. This four-year-old prodigy is rockin’ out something wizard to the strained vocals of Ozzy Osbourne and co., surely making him one of the youngest ever purveyors of heavy metal. What a kid.
Seriously though (and who wouldn’t be serious about a four-year-old playing the music of Black Sabbath?), the Paper Jamz really do encourage musicality in younger folks, so if you’re keen to relive your halcyon days again through the next generation, then the Paper Jamz are for you.
Who can argue with axe-wielding skills like that? In ten years’ time he’ll be headlining Bloodstock, you mark my words. Rock on, righteous little one!
Tags: black sabbath, four year old guitarist, guitar, IWOOT, iwoot blog, iwoot paper jamz, kid plays black sabbath, kid plays paranoid, ozzy, paper jams, paper jamz, paper jamz guitars
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Some incredible nerd-ery for you today. A band of brainy sorts have compiled a whole host of archive sci-fi footage and turned it into a surprisingly convincing false trailer for what The Empire Strikes Back (officially the world’s best sequel) might have looked like had it been released in the kitsch sci-fi style of the 50s.
So what other modern-day Hollywood classics would benefit from the Premake treatment? Off the top of my head, I’d go for ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’, ‘The War Of The Worlds’, ‘Planet Of The Apes’ and ‘Godzilla’. Hang on…
Via Geekologie. Well done chaps.
Tags: empire, empire strikes back, empire strikes back trailer, movie trailer premakes, movie trailers, premake, star wars premake
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
The incredible efforts of Johnny ‘Sticky’ Budden are being documented in the forthcoming film, ’1000 Miles of Parkour’. What, you might reasonably inquire, is the big idea? Well, Sticky (as we’ll call him) is basically travelling the distance from John O’Groats to the Eiffel Tower using only his Parkour skills and some serious determination, and all for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Obviously this involves a rather large amount of physical determination (seriously, the guy’s like Superman with better dress sense), and you can find out exactly what sort of challenge he’s been facing by watching this:
So a bit more than sliding down the banister rail, then. To aid him on his journey, we’ve supplied Sticky with one of our very own Muvi Atom cameras to shoot some footage of his own – hopefully we’ll be able to show you some of the results when he’s finished the challenge. Speaking of which, Sticky is going to be running through the streets of London this Sunday as part of his challenge in the London Parkour marathon – so why not get yourself down there and cheer him on?
You can donate to Johnny’s JustGiving page here, and visit him at his website here. He’s currently in Melton Mowbray, so not far to go now!
Tags: 1000 miles of parkour, iwoot blog, johnny 'sticky' budden, johnny budden, london parkour, motor neurone disease, parkour film, parkour for MND, parkour marathon, sticky budden
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
Reading this news story over at the BBC makes for quite a panicky Monday morning’s reading, that’s for sure. In essence, it says that robot technology, such as it is at the moment, could potentially be very dangerous to humans if we were to allow machines to help us around the house. Some German science people conducted some experiments designed to test ‘safety limits’ on a robot arm only to discover that, unsurprisingly, it could still inflict serious injury when equipped with knives and other stabbing weapons.
Now, the article doesn’t really go into enough detail at this point. They’ve said that the victims of this controlled robot arm attack were a silicone lump, a dead pig and, rather alarmingly, the arm of a human volunteer. We assume they were already long-gone…
Still, all this combined with having watched the rather rubbish ‘I, Robot’ on Friday night makes me wonder exactly what robots will be like in the future. Furthermore, it made me wonder which films have successfully (more than ‘I, Robot’, anyway) made convincing attempts at depicting what the logical extrapolation of a robot arm cutting through a dead pig would be. One thing’s for sure – while the plot of ‘I, Robot’ is entertaining enough, having a zillion poorly rendered robots jump onto Will Smith’s moving car from 50 feet away and run alongside it in an attempt to kill him while he coolly shouts things like “now I’m maaaad!” certainly isn’t. God I hate ‘I, Robot’…
Anyway, off the top of my head, I’ve come up with the following better examples of realistic robots that might chop your arm off in years to come:
Replicant Roy Batty in Blade Runner:
ED-209 in Robocop (minus the blood… and the hilarious final line: “Someone wanna call a paramedic?”):
And finally, the great Woody Allen gets some tailoring advice:
What other examples can you find?
Tags: blade runner, bladerunner, ed-209, i robot, jewish tailor robot, realistic, realistic robots, robocop, robots, roy batty, sleeper, will smith, woody allen
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Being the discerning supporter of independent music that I am (so long as you gloss over the Girls Aloud and Beyonce sections of my iPod), I popped along to London’s Rough Trade East record shop for International Record Store Day on Saturday. Essentially an event that celebrates the independent record shops across the world, establishments across the world held free concerts, bands released one-day-only records and basically encouraged us to enjoy the experience of being surrounded by fusty blokes with vinyl sleeves jammed under their arms.
Rough Trade East played host to several enjoyable artists, but my ears began to tremble when Ash started using our very own Stylophone Beatboxes. With my crappy trusty phone in my pocket, I captured what I could for evidence:
Well done chaps. Truly, the music sounds better with Stylophone Beatboxes. Get hold of your very own here, and listen to Ash here.
Tags: ash, IWOOT, iwoot blog, iwoot stylophone, iwoot stylophone beatbox, record store day, record store day 2010, rough trade east, stylophone, stylophone beatbox, tim wheeler
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Remember Donkey Kong, Tetris, Space Invaders and Frogger? You’re safe from them now, aren’t you? Because they’re locked up behind your console screen where they can’t hurt you.
Well, apparently that’s no longer true:
This incredible video features, as you can see, all your favourite retro pixelated characters gradually taking over the world by bashing it up with Tetris blocks and stuff. Hands up anyone who didn’t get a genuine pang of fear when the Pong bats turned up… mental. Anyway, this slice of anarchic fun comes courtesy of a chap called Patrick Jean, about whom there seems to be very little information apart from this breakthrough piece.
We hope to see more from him in the future. Something about pixelated characters taking over the universe will do.
Tags: amazing pixels video, donkey kong video, frogger video, patrick jean, pixels, pixels patrick jean, pixels take over the world, pixels video, pong video, tetris video
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
It may have been April Fool’s Day last week, but the only fools around these parts are those who don’t submit a review when they buy something from IWOOT (not really, we love you).
As always, we’ve got a plethora of vouchers to win for the best written, photo and video reviews. The best of March’s bunch are below, and what a bunch it is too…
First up, winning our £50 Voucher for best written review, it’s LOCNEVER (3908575) tackling the virtues of the Power Plant Growing Machine:
“Good Lord!
This has to be the best thing I’ve ever bought!
The name aeroponics conjured up images of Star Trek-esque technology, and although this isn’t quite replicator material, it is still a fantastic bit of kit!
Being a serial killer when it comes to plants, I was absolutely amazed to find little green shoots appearing after just three days of planting! The humidomes (Don’t you love the terminology?) are in place and I’m expecting my first Jalapenos to fruit in a month or two!
This machine has far exceeded my expectations, and IWOOT delivered next day! It came well packaged and even after our postie dropped it there was no damage!
I couldn’t be more pleased! I think I’ll buy 10 of these babies and start a garden centre….or a forest….”
You had us at “Good Lord!”. TeaMan (3916840), on the other hand, has submitted this picture of the Terrorist Teapot in order to win a £75 voucher:
Well done, sir. Well done. Scooping the biggest prize this month, though, is Simul (3897968) with this excellent video of the Action Camera being given the Snowmobile treatment. Vroom!
Don’t forget to submit your reviews via the IWOOT site product pages if you’ve bought something from us – you could be in our hall of fame and get your hands on even more of our gubbins for free.
Tags: action camera, competition, iwoot blog, iwoot review, photo review, plant machine, power plant growing machine, review competition, review of the month, terrorist teapot, video review, winners
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
It seemed a trifle unnecessary to snap it in half first, but this is another classic from the folks over at Will It Blend. The answer, in case you can’t be bothered to watch to the end, is obviously yes. Puts up a good fight, mind.
And we’re yet to learn whether or not one of these would blend too. We’re pretty sure it wouldn’t.
Tags: apple ipad, blended ipad, funny ipad, i hate the ipad, ipad, ipad destroyed, IWOOT, iwoot blog, will it blend?
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