As promised, the wedding ceremony between a man named Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki, a character from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, was filmed and broadcast across the internet. It’s predictably sad.

Fortunately, a shred of hope for humanity was preserved when it was revealed that Sal9000 orchestrated the event as a piece of performance art – although it is unclear how serious he is actually taking the relationship. Apparently, he has sexed up his fair share of virtual girlfriends, so it is probably only a matter of time before technology progresses and he finds himself another woman with bigger and better… rendering. [Boing Boing]

Stair Dismount for the iPhone is a spiritual descendant of the Stair Dismount Porrasturvat game back in 2001/2002 where you try your hardest to launch a ragdoll as best as possible down a flight of stairs. It was brilliant.

The current iPhone version (not out yet, but supposedly will be before the end of the week) has a larger number of stairs and stair types, but seems to be a little slower in “falling” than its PC ancestor. It still has the delicious crunching sound, which means we’ll still be first in line to get this for our iPhones. [YouTube via TUAW]

Here’s how it works: you snap a picture of a mouth – yours, your girlfriend’s, or just a photo from a magazine – which iLingual then analyses and converts for animation. Then, you choose a phrase from the app’s 400-strong library, hold your iPhone over your mouth and there, you sort of speak French, German or a little bit of Arabic, with a disconcertingly segmented, animated pair of lips. Félicitations!

This really shouldn’t be more useful than a standard pre-recorded phrasebook, but it definitely is. Nobody likes tourists, and the genius of iLingual is that by using it, you’re making fun of yourself; you’re giving people something – a small amount of your dignity, or if you’re lucky, a laugh – in exchange for their help. iLingual is a sponsored app, so it’s completely free. [iTunes]

Of course, the car has yet to be built, let alone break that record. But the effort is quite serious, these people are not amateurs, and they have serious sponsors. It will use one EJ200 jet like the one used by the Eurofighter – hopefully a real one, unlike the one I got into at Dubai two years ago – alongside an 18-inch hybrid rocket and a V12 piston engines. The 6500kg Bloodhound will have more than 21,000kg of thrust and a top speed of 1690km/h.

The driver will be former RAF Wing Commander Andy Green, who broke the landspeed record in 1997. [Bloodhound via Techradar]

QWERTY is pretty much the king of smartphone text input. But there’s a new challenger on the horizon. It’s called Swype, it works with one-hand input and, yeah, it is pretty fast.

Yes, the first thing you may notice is that Swype technically uses a QWERTY layout. But instead of pushing each key individually, you drag your finger from letter to letter.

It’s tough to tell if the speed gains are legitimate, given this video has been created by the Swype camp. I will say, however, given that this demo is one hand vs two, the technology certainly holds its own. What do you think? Would you be willing to part with traditional QWERTY to spell words through nonsensical doodles?

Swype will debut in Verizon’s Samsung Omnia II arriving early next month before making its way to an unnamed Android phone next year. [Swype via TechCrunch via http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/11/24/verizons-samsung-omnia-ii-to-be-first-to-sport-swype-text-input/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ohgizmo+%28OhGizmo!%29]

The president also said he’s introducing an annual White House Science fair with the winners of national competitions in science and technology. “If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you’re a young person and you’ve produced the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognised for that achievement, too. ”

Students will launch rockets, construct miniature windmills, and get their hands dirty. They’ll have the chance to build and create – and maybe destroy just a little bit – to see the promise of being the makers of things, and not just the consumers of things. [White House via NY Times]

Industry leaders like Sony are launching a nationwide challenge to design compelling, freely available, science-related video games. And organisations representing teachers, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers – joined by volunteers in the community – are participating in a grassroots effort called “National Lab Day” to reach 10 million young people with hands-on learning.

Business leaders from Intel, Xerox, Kodak, and Time Warner Cable are teaming up with Sally Ride, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the Carnegie Corporation, to find and replicate successful science, maths and technology programs all across America. Sesame Street has begun a two-year initiative to teach young kids about maths and science. And Discovery Communications is going to deliver interactive science content to 60,000 schools reaching 35 million students.

These efforts extend beyond the classroom. Time Warner Cable is joining with the Coalition for Science After School and FIRST Robotics – the program created by inventor Dean Kamen, which gave us the “Cougar Cannon” – to connect one million students with fun after-school activities, like robotics competitions.

Yes, this video uses three of Ostendo’s 2880×900 quad-DLP CRVD monitors and the setup looks like it could satisfy even the craziest gamer or multitasker:

Each of monitor costs $US6500, but if the crown prince of Dubai can buy several of them, why can’t you? [Ostendo via Engadget]

Nothing says “functional relationship” like destroying someone’s property rather than talking things out. I’d like to think this is fake, but this girl has a whole bunch of other videos where she’s equally horrible. She’s not worth it, buddy.

I think my hard drive flinched in fear when I pulled up these instructions for turning a laptop into an Etch-A-Sketch. How could it not when the project is a freakin’ awesome Arduino-powered Hack-A-Sketch that you actually shake to erase.

The shake-to-erase action works because of a hidden mercury switch which detects movement and you don’t really need to worry about the hard drive since this project kinda destroys your screen. [Project Lab via Make]

It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but already Best Buy seems to have won the “most annoying holiday ad of the season” award. Seriously, try to sit through one of these without squirming around uncomfortably and wanting to punch the screen.