Archive for the ‘YouTube Stuff’ Category

Twitter Bird Gatecrashes Twitter Convention

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The Twitter Bird is about as iconic as they come nowadays, sort of like a social media version of the Golden Arches or that dog that says “Wall’s Sausages”. Well, some pranksters operating under the name of Zug (visit them here for more silliness) have hijacked the poor bird and made it into a criminal by gate-crashing the keynote speech at the SXSW festival in Texas, which was delivered by Twitter founder Evan Williams. Goodness knows what he thought of the whole thing, but we can assume that he didn’t condense it into 140 characters.

Pay particular attention to the Hanna-Barbera-style chase with a net sequence – golden.

Via Robot vs Badger.

Oh crikey, there's a video of the jetpack…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Good news! After the amazing news that someone has finally made a Jetpack that both works and you can buy, the Telegraph comes up trumps and finds some footage of it in action.

Of course, you’d be better off soundtracking this sort of thing yourself. The ambient guff they’ve selected is just not exciting enough – Spotify users amongst you should click here for a more appropriate aural accompaniment.

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Bizarre German Show Makes Child Put Star Wars Lego in Mouth

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

If that’s not a headline to get you clicking through, I don’t know what is. After thoroughly terrifying us with their equally bizarre dinosaur ballet (which we featured here), further confirmation that German variety television is a truly unhinged affair can be found in the below video. I’m no linguist, but it seems that this particular segment follows a You Bet!-style format of challenging someone to complete a task that literally only they would have a chance of completing. I mean, do you know anyone that could identify Star Wars Lego characters just by how they felt in their mouth?

Favourite bits: the spooky version of the Star Wars theme in the background, the spittoon-style pot that the poor child has to plop the figurines into, and the bit where the obviously confused host makes up the names of Boba Fett’s parents. “Mama Fett, Papa Fett?”

Genius. Though you have to wonder about the home life of a child that can actually complete this task with 80% accuracy. Furthermore, could this same challenge be carried out with these?

Via Geekologie.

Unbelievable Star Wars Lego Fight

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Lego = great.

Star Wars = great.

Lego X Star Wars = great squared.

I’m no mathematician, but that’s a fact. With that in mind, why not geek out for a Friday afternoon and marvel at this incredible Lego animation?

February's Review of the Month Winners

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Though February is a short month, it seems to have had no effect on your reviewing capabilities – once again, we’ve been flooded. It takes the best part of a morning to wade through the written reviews alone, so next month we want to see it upped to a whole day. Come on, make DannyWoot’s working life as difficult as possible!

So, without any further prattle, here are this month’s lucky winners of a whole heap of IWOOT Vouchers:

LizzyMac wins a not-to-be-looked-at-with-scorn £50 IWOOT Voucher for her written review of the Terrorist Teapot:

“Hilarious, and fast!
I am incredibly impressed. Being disorganised I left my Valentine’s shopping until the Friday afternoon (Sunday being Valentine’s Day) and finally decided on this little fella. Not an appropriate V Day gift some of you might say? Well you don’t know my boyfriend! He is a tea fiend, absolutely obsessed with tea I tell you! To my utmost surprise (after warning said tea fiend that his present wouldn’t arrive until Monday) we were woken at 10am on Saturday by the postie… with a lovely IWOOT box in his hands. Needless to say, I had no chance of getting the prezzie and keeping it until the Sunday – the boyf had it open in 30 seconds flat! He was giddy with excitement, and proceeded to brew up some tea there and then (chai in case you were interested)! The teapot has been proclaimed “a good ‘un” and works just as well as a normal teapot, only better looking! He is thoroughly happy with his Valentine’s Day present! And what did I get? Flowers and chocolates…”

Stephyj1 is awarded an actually-I-can-do-quite-a-bit-with-that £75 IWOOT Voucher for this picture of the Snug Rug in (non) action:

We're assuming this was sent in with the subject's consent...

And finally, the winner of our crikey-I-just-did-a-double-take-without-a-trace-of-irony £150 IWOOT Voucher is Raggy, who nips around department stores and turns televisions off with our delightful Telly Terminate. Why he feels the need to titter incessantly over the top of this fine slice of guerilla-lite action is beyond us, but what an effort.

I’d have the same reaction if Loose Women was on. If you fancy winning yourself a lovely voucher to call your own and joining the ranks of hallowed past winners, then all you need to do is enter a review of something you’ve bought from IWOOT, be it written, snapped or videoed. See you next month!

To the slopes!

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Loyal blog readers, I bid you farewell for a week or so – I’m off skiing. Ah, the crunch of virgin snow under rented ski, the satisfaction of the successfully traversed mogul field, the cloy of one hot chocolate too many… can’t wait.

Tthere might be the odd opportunity to do something blog-post-worthy while I’m away, so look out for that when I’m back. Even if it’s a video of me, sipping Vin Chaud and looking very, very satisfied with myself while I imagine the delays on the Victoria line. Until then, I’ll leave you in the capable hands of the rest of the Creative department. Make them a cup of tea and they’ll write as many blog posts as you like.

Anyway, tally-ho and all that:

Talking Husky Says "I Want One"

Friday, February 5th, 2010

We encourage all are readers and customers to get in touch with tidbits they think we might find amusing, but we were a little surprised that dedication to IWOOT has crossed over into the animal kingdom. That’s right: man’s best friend has started living the brand.

An animal-loving customer of ours has sent us this great video of her husky Loki saying “I Want One”… which obviously isn’t quite the whole of our website name, but what an effort! You can make up your own mind as to whether Loki is in fact spluttering out the hallowed phrase.

 

Our thanks go to Niamh for making her dog do such a thing, and videoing it as well. Impressive. We’d be over the moon if you managed to make Loki go the whole hog (or, indeed, the whole dog… ha ha ha…) and nail “of those dot com” as well, but for now this is ace!

iPad of Paper

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The superbly-named Peter Serafinowicz has effortlessly lampooned the iPad hype and pointed out what JennaWoot argued in our Skype-aided dissection of Apple’s latest method for taking money off of their cult-like followers. Won’t stop people buying them though, will it?

Stylophone Plays Zelda Themes

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

It seems that our humble buzz-toned friend the Stylophone is high in demand with geek musicians everywhere. After the original product video and last week’s epic demonstration of how the Stylophone Beatbox can be used in dance tracks, we bring you this truly insane medley of tunes from the popular Zelda Nintendo games played on various instruments including our very own cheesy 70s classic with Beatbox upgrades.

Sit back and marvel at the wonder of someone with too much time on their hands a natural, incredible talent:

Originally posted on Geekologie.

Great Stylophone Beatbox Video

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

One of our favourite products, the Stylophone Beatbox, is also one of the most prone to being a hit on the internet thanks to its ‘anyone can have a go’ status. While it certainly is true that anyone can have a go, it takes quite a bit of mastery to make something wholly listenable, maybe even something we could call ‘music’. Look at the official video if you don’t believe us.

We came across a great YouTube video of someone (named, for reasons best left unknown, Psychopath3000) who’s given it a fair crack of the whip:

 

Very impressive, you’ll no doubt agree. You can hear some other similarly glitchy ambitronica (that’s probably what they call it… right?) at Mr. 3000′s MySpace.