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Genius. And I actually learnt something.

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More from lichtfaktor but this time, animated (for cash).

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Very slickly done - especially the shopping and skipping.

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Yes, there are loads - but these are particularly well done.

(See here if this makes no sense:
Mitchell and Webb re-do the Mac PC ads)

More here.

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Mitchell and Webb have re-done the US Mac PC ads - the result? Slightly less smarmy and condescending, but still not entirely accurate.

Watch them here.

Corn starch has never been so interesting.

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(Sorry if this is old, was in Vegas last week)

Behind the scenes, how they got back together:

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Last of the CES videos I made for The Register.

Bill Gates didn’t do anything silly this year - probably because he actually had quite a bit to talk about - so they went with a montage of his previous silly bits instead:

CES in five minutes - get an idea of the scale of the show. This is only the Convention Center, mind - there are two other locations as well:

Other videos, in case you missed ‘em:

Honda’s freaky Asimo humanoid robot

HP TouchSmart Media Center PC

Bill Gates’ Keynote highlights

I’m still not sure whether it actually is a real robot, or just kid in a spaceman outfit running round the stage.

Demo of HP’s new touchy feely Media Center.

Let this short, but illuminating, documentary film explain:

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Ex-Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon is back with a new video blog for ABC News - and it’s pretty good. Think Rocketboom, but with higher production values.

The 30 second pre-roll ads are a bit old media though.

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Faith Hill (middle left) takes it like a pro at the CMA awards…

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Full clip from the Comdex 2001 video of Bill Gates dressed up as Harry Potter.

Also includes Steve Ballmer dressed as Luke Skywalker (I think…)

[Related: PC Advisor takes you to Comdex 2001]

Toshiba’s new B-SX8R rewritable printer can actually ERASE ink from the page. Seriously.

Look:

[More: Toshiba printer erases and reprints on a single sheet]

Comdex was THE tech tradeshow, until it suffered an untimely, slowly drawn out, spluttering death shortly after this video was shot. It’s since been overtaken by CES on the tech geek calendar.

You can relive all the Las Vegas action, direct from the show floor - shot back in 2001. We were soo ahead of the time.

I also got chucked out of Bill Gates‘ keynote for filming him dressed as Harry Potter…

Part two after the jump. The Bellagio fountains shot at the end was a lucky accident - we only had enough battery left to do one take…

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Well, pretty much what you’d expect. But it’s still worth watching, just for the look on the PS3 fanboys’ faces.

Play it again, play it AGAIN.

David Cameron’s latest efforts to connect with the youth. True story.

High res version and other formats (iPod, DivX, Quicktime) over here.

[Related: David Cameron launches ToryTube]

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Not that I’m using the GooTube takeover as a thinly veiled excuse to dig through YouTube in work hours, you understand…

Trawling YouTube for a story and found this. Not sure I can look at Doc and Marty in quite the same way now. Curse you, internet.

Video produced for PC Advisor in 2001, logging our trip to the CeBIT tradefair in Hannover (also known as journo hell).

Copyright IDG. Used with permission.

Fabulous.

Video made for an introduction to a panel dicussion at NotCon on bootlegs and mash-ups, with Lionel Vinyl, Soundhog and Wendy Seltzer (Chilling Effects). It was all Dave Green’s fault idea.

Transcript after the jump.

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