This is so cool. Hank Torres is paralysed from the shoulder down but with the use of Swype and a head tracking device he was able to set the Guinness World Record for fastest hands free typing.
Meet Maru. No, not the famous cat—Maru the puppy (a Shiba Inu, actually). In this short, sweet, and inarguably adorable video, Maru watches a video of another dog on his owner’s iPhone. It confuses him—quite a bit.
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Sometimes, dogs amaze you with their stupidity; other times, they amaze you with their smarts. We’re not sure which of the two this video-of a dog who is very confused by an escalator-falls under, but it’s still cute.
For more of our selection of dog-related videos, feel free to click here.
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Our friend Jason Silva – writer, filmmaker and founding host/producer of Current TV – is making a new documentary celebrating humans reaching their ultimate potential, the inexorable evolution that is turning us into gods. He’s quite optimistic about it. I’m not so sure – JD.
It just gets sadder and sadder. And then it gets really really sad. [Thanks Laura!]
Every time humankind gets invaded by an alien race in Hollywood, they have some amazing technology and super powerful weaponry. But what goes into designing and creating that weaponry? We recently got the chance to sit down with the designers behind Robert Rodriguez’s Predators, and they told us just how important distilling the history of the Predator was in creating the alien tech for the film – which is out now on Blu-ray.
Kites? Kites aren’t that cool. You know what’s cool? Kites with freaking LED lights and fireworks attached to them—that’s cool! And that’s what’s in this video: a bunch of cool kites with cool lights and fireworks galore. Enjoy.
