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• Open Elevator Doors Using the Force [Video]

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  If you have time to kill because you are not gainfully employed then you might want to try pulling this tasteful little Jedi elevator trick. Yes, it would be annoying to those inside the elevator with you – but how many people are going to raise the issue with someone capable of opening an elevator door with the power of his or her mind? Personally, I think the Jester Lads picked the low hanging fruit [...]

   

• Kim Dotcom Releases CCTV Footage Mashup

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  Kim Dotcom lit up his Twitter feed with repeated promises of new CCTV footage from the raid on his mansion in New Zealand. It is possible that there was a frame or two in what amounted to the most creative rickroll I have seen in a long, long time. While some might be tempted to ask “Oh why, oh why?” I say, “bravo.” Bravo for the original electronic music that is, I will grant you, [...]

   

• US Navy Agrees to Stop Shouting

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  We at UberReview would like to congratulate the United States Navy for decided to embrace the lowercase in its communications – for the first time since 1850. Henceforth all communications will sent and received using standard capitalization, which I am assuming is sentence case. The changes come thanks to a new message-routing system that is able to handle both upper and lower case characters, and which is cheaper and easier to operate. Way to step [...]

   

• These Game of Thrones Episode 9 Reactions Killed the Last of My Faith in Humanity [Spoilers]

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  First up let me warn everyone that there are spoilers ahead… if you haven’t seen Episode 9 or read the books then you might want to hold off until such time as you have. Read on, if you don’t mind finding out about one of the major plot points from Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 9.

   

• Casino Royale in Stop Motion Lego

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  The video that you see below is the work of one coccosnowball (YouTube) who went to the trouble of putting together this action-packed stop-motion animation of Casino Royale… in delicious black and white. It looks fantastic and the attention to detail is outstanding – but you can save yourself the trouble of me telling you how good it is by spending the three minutes it takes to watch it from start to finish. [Source]

   

• Occulus Rift Roller Coaster Demonstration Almost Ends in Tears

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  Every single Occulus Rift demo that I see makes me want to get one even more. In this video, the Rift owner is kind enough to give his friend a taste of riding a roller coaster. Said friend stumbles around a lot, and crashes into the monitor. The friend should have sat down, but I like what this says for the level of realism. [Source]

   

• Soda Bazooka to the Face is the Best DIY Mishap You Will See All Day

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  Soda bottle bazookas can be a lot of fun, but when you add a little too much water or air (or water and air) to the mix, things tend to get a little crazy – case in point, what happens to the young man in this video. There is nothing like getting a mini water cannon to the face to remind you of the power of water under pressure. [Source]

   

• This is a $12 Cellphone [Gongkai Phone]

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  I’ve used cheap phones before, but nothing as cheap as the $12 Gongkai phone. Electronics maestro Bunny Huang did a teardown of a Gongkai phone that he picked up at Mingtong Digital Mall. His findings were interesting. At $12 you are obviously getting a burner – but the innards are an interesting mix of simplicity, functionality and frugality… it packs quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display – and the processor isn’t bad [...]

   

• Man Dead After 40-Hour Gaming Session

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  A Chinese man by the name of Xiao Jun had his 40-hour gaming session cut short by an unexpected case of death. There has been no comment on what game he was playing or whether he had any underlying health problems. What we do know is that the 21-year-old ended work at a karaoke center at 2am on Christmas and jumped straight into a game-a-thon that was, incidentally, interrupted by short breaks for meals and [...]

   

• Animatronic Lamp is the Cutest Robot You Will See All Day

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  With six servos, a webcam and some custom Arduino software, Adam Ben-Drur managed to turn what looks to be a normal desk lamp into a fairly accurate representation of the Pixar lamp. While the base is stationary, the rest of the lamp moves around, responds to sound and interacts with its human companion… and it doesn’t like to be turned off. It is so awesome that we are prepared to look past the fact that, [...]

   

• Christmas Dinner in a Can

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  If you want to make your Christmas 2013 dinner stand out, you could try setting the bar really low this year. One way to do that would be to place a couple cans of canned Christmas dinner in front of your family members and/or assembled guests. When it’s time for your festive feast, simply remove the rubber cap, pierce the holes, open the insulated can and try not to drool on yourself as a totally [...]

   

• Thanksgiving, Breaking Bad Style [Video]

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  If you ever found yourself wondering how Walter White’s chemistry skills translated in the kitchen, you might want to check out Breaking Bread. A post-Heisenberg Walter teams up with post-Gale Pinkman to cook a pumpkin pie – hilarity and some good old-fashioned ultraviolence ensues. Bon appetit. [Source]