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Entertainment
Excellent Special Effects Or Terrifying New Sewer Creatures?
7:20AM Adam Frucci | This video purports to be of some unknown creatures in the sewers under Cameron Village in Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s probably some early viral marketing for a movie. But! What if it isn’t? Oh god, what if it isn’t?? [io9] More »
Computers
Samsung N310 Viral Video Is All Gumby and Looney Tunes
6:00AM Sean Fallon | If you enjoy the squishy clay-ness of Gumby and the brutal violence of Looney Tunes, you will enjoy the latest viral video for the 10-inch N310 (or NC310) netbook from Samsung. More »
Phones
Palm’s Casting a Pre Viral Video Right Now, Hints At Pre Release Date
3:20AM Jason Chen | If you’re a male in Seattle from the age of 24 to 34, you may have the chance to star in a Palm Pre viral ad. Update More »
Phones
4:30PM Nick Broughall | It’s cheap, short and pretty simple, but damned if I didn’t get a chuckle out of this clip in response to last month’s Blackberry bullet viral ad…
[Thanks Jen!] More »
Blackberry Bullet Take Two – The Apple Version
4:30PM Nick Broughall | It’s cheap, short and pretty simple, but damned if I didn’t get a chuckle out of this clip in response to last month’s Blackberry bullet viral ad…
[Thanks Jen!] More »
Vehicles
The Hotelicopter Outed as a Fake
8:25AM Sean Fallon | Admittedly, the renders of the Hotelicopter all pointed to a hoax, but the truth is that we all got swept up in a viral campaign for Yotel airport hotels. [Yotel and Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
Screens
LG Unveils a Series of Zany New TV Technologies
12:40AM Mark Wilson | Have you ever been watching a profanity-laden movie and wished that you could replace the curse words with a baby’s laughter? LG has. More »
Screens
This German Short Is So So Strange and a Bit Wonderful
7:20AM Mark Wilson | This (viral?) short isn’t particularly funny, inspiring or laden with effects. But it sort of nails the future right on the head. We’ll have OLED displays while maintaining a persistent fascination with breasts. [Thanks Matthias!] More »
Phones
Pomegranate Phone: Can Your iPhone Brew Coffee or Shave Your Face?
5:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | The masterfully-faked Pomegranate Phone is a great riff on the iPhone’s it-does-everything! ads. It’s a pomegranate-based design that includes an electric shaver, coffee brewer, and a harmonica. Brilliant. But what is it actually advertising? More »
Entertainment
10:28AM Nick Broughall | If you’re as excited as us by the upcoming Watchmen movie, you’ll be more than happy to watch the above viral video for the film. It probably won’t make a whole heap of sense to anyone who hasn’t read the graphic novel, but for fans like us, it’s another piece in the excitement puzzle that hits cinemas in 23 days. Not that we’re counting or anything*. More »
Watchmen Viral Video Keeps Monday-itis At Bay
10:28AM Nick Broughall | If you’re as excited as us by the upcoming Watchmen movie, you’ll be more than happy to watch the above viral video for the film. It probably won’t make a whole heap of sense to anyone who hasn’t read the graphic novel, but for fans like us, it’s another piece in the excitement puzzle that hits cinemas in 23 days. Not that we’re counting or anything*. More »