Leaping Mandarin ducklings

Have you ever seen anything as cute as this? My gosh, Ligia and I were practically giggling with delight…

When co-workers attack

I felt a bit like the guy in this ad before Christmas. The SharePoint farm at work was down, and I stayed up for about 76 hours to bring it back up. Thankfully, I did my work remotely, so short of guided missiles, they couldn’t touch me… 🙂

Reviews

The new Nabaztag

Just this summer, I demonstrated what was then a new product on the US market on HGTV’s “I Want That! Tech Toys” show. It was called the Nabaztag smart bunny, and it was an interactive, programmable little toy that looked like a white bunny and connected to the Internet through WiFi. I also wrote a pretty detailed review about its capabilities.

Well, the folks at Violet, the makers of the Nabaztag, have just launched a new version, which does a whole lot more. You can communicate with it by voice, and you can program it to read books back to you, using RFID tags. Watch the video below, taped on a French TV show, it’s pretty cool stuff. Little kids would probably go bananas for the chance to have their books read back to them by a little toy bunny.

Lists

Funny video round-up

Do you think mini-guns are cute? Well, get a load of this .17 caliber Browning machine gun? It’s so cute, you might just shoot yourself to see if it hurts. (Please don’t do that, it could be fatal!)

Fed up with the current immigration debate? See how the American Indians dealt with the dreaded Pilgrim immigration back when your great-great-great-…-grandma was still a twinkle in your great-…-and so on and so forth-grandfather’s eye, in this funny mockumentary.

A blooper reel shows a hapless fishing show host stumbling and mumbling his way through one disaster after another. The poor guy keeps on trying though! You gotta applaud him for his persistence.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3432265409994388404

Did you think it was impossible to drive a car straight up an almost vertical hill? Have a look at this video to see a real master in action. This fellow not only does just that, but he also averts a disaster when his car is about to flip over. Amazing driving!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5302852586206431435