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Extreme Pants-Wearing

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Hypothesis: There are always people who do things that are technically difficult, and yet you cannot fathom exactly how do they come up with the idea of doing that act in the first place (not to mention capturing it on photo/video and posting it onto the Internet). Case 1 would be the dedicated art of extreme ironing, which surfaced quite a few years ago.

And here’s another new meme – extreme pants-wearing:

With all due respect to their tremendous agility, I must admit I’m quite perplexed at how did they decide to start this extreme pants-wearing thing? Do they just wake up and say, “I feel like stunt-jumping into my pants today to see if I could.”?

Old Creative Video

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Apple has the ‘demo-guy’ – you know, the guy wearing all black demonstrating how to use an iPhone etc in their guided tour? Well, it turns out that Creative Technology have their own equivalent too – and it probably pre-dates Apples.

It’s quite old, but I’ve just stumbled on it. Check it out:

Now don’t you feel like rock-and-rolling already?

Synchronized Metronomes

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Here’s a rather neat video showing how you can synchronize 5 metronomes that were initially beating at different frequencies (I said how, not why). From my somewhat primitive understanding of high-school Physics, I’d suppose it’s something to do with natural harmonies and maybe resonance? Something about each (originally isolated) individual systems are brought to form one whole system that can only have one frequency.

Or something like that. Oh well! Still, a rather interesting video!

Lenovo X300 Parody Ad on MacBook Air

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Whether you’re an Apple fanboy or a PC die-hard, a good commercial is a good commercial. Here’s a clever parody portraying Lenovo’s edge over the Apple MacBook Air – showing off its integrated DVD-Drive, Ethernet ports and 3 USB ports and driving home the message: Lenovo’s machine is not a compromise, but a complete machine that still fits within that small envelope.

In almost every post this would inevitably draw fanboys on the Mac and the PC sides, claiming the superiority of their preferred choice while mudslinging the ‘enemy’. Sometimes it makes me wonder – with the marketing adage that apathy is worse than hate/love – so, what if everything you use has some crazy zealous fan/enemy? All the way from the choice of your breakfast cereal, to the file you use, to the USB cable that you carry – what if each and everyone of them has such polarizing camps?

If that sounds too scary or faraway, then what exactly is the essence that makes a product more polarizing than others? What is it about operating systems, MP3 players, computers and cars that bestow upon them this natural (?) sense of territory and boundary, of ‘me’ versus ‘the rest’?

Neocube Magnetic Balls

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While the Neocube (fancy name!) are really just magnetic balls, they aren’t any ol’ magnetic balls. They are VERY-magnetic balls. Formed of 216 high-energy rare-earth magnets, their very strong magnetic field gives rise to very interesting behaviors as you fiddle with it, creating multitudes of shapes, planes and volumes.

If you’re interested, the online shop’s here.

Inspiring Video

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A very powerful message encoded in a very clever narrative – it’s all a matter of perspective and choice, isn’t it? If that previous sentence seems a little cryptic – just watch the video titled Lost Generation – I just don’t want to spoil it.

What are you doing now that is making your world, and this world, a better place?