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Xtranormal - type to make a movie

Cool, this make your own animated videos site with a "you type the characters talk" action.
If you can type you can make movies.
This will give you endless hours of amusement...and they're looking for writers and directors.
The Xtranormal guys have created their own video "So you want to start a web start-up" to act as a viral for the site...and by all accounts it's working quite well.
There's a little bit of swearing in this so it may fall into the NSFW category unless you have your headphones on or a chilled out boss.



Xtranormal

12 Tech Toys for a Geeked-Out Wedding

Check out Mashable's Top 12 geeky wedding gifts...why not a Top 10? I guess we'll leave that question to the geeks! 12 Tech Toys for a Geeked-Out Wedding

Build your own Canon!

Now if you thought you'd cracked it with paper aeroplanes, progressed

to Airfix kits and then designed and built your own in balsa wood...think on!

Yep, if you've got some time on your hands, some double-sided sticky tape, washing-up liquid bottle, card and sharp scissors (adult supervision required!), try this out.

In just a few simple steps (or less for the origami masters amongst you) you could be well on your way to building a scale model of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

And who knows, maybe win a Blue Peter badge!

Patience and perseverance is all it takes.

Full instructions here -

Canon EOS 5D plans

Joking aside, this was a really neat move from Canon to celebrate its 50th anniversary in manufacturing SLR cameras, enabling you to build three super detailed paper craft cameras .

If you've got nothing else to do at the weekend....good luck!

Panasonic Lumix GF2 Launch

Panasonic launch the new Lumix GF2.
Billed as "a digital Interchangeable Lens Camera with the world's smallest and lightest digital interchangeable lens compact system camera."
A bit of a mouthful but looks the business, maybe it'll become known as a DILCSC for short!

BBC iPlayer now on Blackberry

The BBC's iPlayer has just been launched on the Blackberry in the UK.
It's free to download from App World and it works on the 9700, 9800 and & Storm 2 Blackberry handsets.

FREE Gap Jeans...be quick!

It's today in the US only
Gap giving away 10,000 pairs of jeans!
Go here to check in
The Gap Facebook Check-in

Time 05 November · 10:00 - 21:00


Location All U.S. Gap Adult stores

Created by: Gap

More info from Gap:
This Friday we’re giving away 10,000 pairs of jeans! Check-in at any Men’s & Women’s Gap using Facebook Places and you could win*. Just show any Gap employee your check-in and you could score a free pair. If you’re too late don’t worry, we’ll let you shop with 40% off any regularly priced item**.

All our stores are participating and have a certain number of jeans to give away, so from east coast to west coast and every store in between you can get in on the action!

Learn about Facebook Places: http://www.facebook.com/places/

How to access Facebook Places on web-enabled devices, iPhones, and Android devices: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17390

Check out how Facebook Deals works here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=446183422130

*Friday, November 5, 2010, offer valid on a first come first served basis Friday November 5, 2010 only, starting at the time of store opening, at Gap stores in the U.S. only. Not valid at GapKids, babyGap, GapBody, Gap Outlet, Gap Factory Store, The Gap Generation stores, or online. Offer valid for one free pair of basic 5 pocket jeans with a value up to $59.50. Certain styles are not included in the offer. Store associates will pass out one coupon per person starting with the front of the line while supplies last. Coupon is good for one time use and must be surrendered at the time of purchase. Free item may not be returned. Only exchanges will be accepted. No substitutions allowed. No adjustments on previous purchases. May not be redeemed for cash or cash equivalent. Not combinable with any other offers. Gap is not responsible for lost or stolen coupons. Gap Inc. employees are not eligible for this offer.

The Gap Facebook Check-in

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The Gap 10,000 pairs of jeans giveaway

The Gap is giving its fans free jeans via a Facebook promo.
Today, Facebook announced that The Gap would give away a pair of jeans to the first 10,000 people who check in on a specific day...yet to be announced! The first 10,000 checking in will receive a free pair of Gap jeans. For those checking in after a 40% discount is being offered.


The Gap promo is part of Facebook’s new “deals” program, similar to Foursquare’s “deals” program. Checking into Facebook via your mobile phone will soon mean getting discounts at many retailers.

Check back soon as we'll let you know the date as soon as we have it.

BlackBurberry or BurbBlackberry

Now wouldn’t that make a great brand tie up?


Imagine how many people would enjoy slipping a Burberry branded Blackberry out of their pocket or handbag.

Ok so it may not be for everyone, but if you look at what happened with the whole "Chav" thing in the UK, plus rumour has it that RIM/Blackberry are investing heavily in the very same market that seems to have taken off over the last year or so. Yes teens really are the early adopters of the latest Blackberry smartphones.

Oh and a note to anyone at Burberry or RIM/Blackberry....you heard it here first!

Watch this space.........

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Defend your village Star Wars style

Really neat use of augmented reality (AR).
Star Wars Arcade (Falcon Gunner) allows you to blast TIE fighters out of your bedroom, garden, town, city...in fact wherever you are. Check it out
Pow-pow
Piou-piou!

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Small batch HDTVs from a company subverting the mass-production model

NuVision Televisions on Cool Hunting

iBerry 2.0

So that's it, you've had enough of your Blackberry, like Citibank & Bank of America this week, you have decided to defect!

We also heard a couple of months ago that the UAE were banning Blackberry email, web browsing and messaging.

Well all is not lost, if you are still quite attached to your Blackberry or live in a land where such things are frowned upon...you could disguise it and make it look like an iPhone!

Blackberry defectors check it out here -
iPhone Theme for BlackBerry

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Frends Headphones

A snowboarding band of friends introduce a new headphones line

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