Author Archives: Niall Murphy

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNz0POlwQP0&feature=player_embedded#!

Can you name the movies that featured the 18 dos above?

Solution here.

illustration: Derek Eads/ video: Harry Hanrahan

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY32AROs-8Y

Bonus warmth and fuzziness: the dog, Fozzie, was apparently found on the street – filthy and flea-ridden – several months earlier by the guy in the video, who cleaned him up, got him medical attention and subsequently adopted him.

Aww.

dailypicksandflicks

Aside from the derpy ‘Remote Control Watch’ legend on the face, which rather spoils the effect, this is quite the device.

The six buttons on the bezel (volume, power, channel up/down, play/rewind/fast forward) let you control TVs, DVD players and any other infrared device, once you enter its three-digit ID code.

Cue hilarious stealth-trolling at family gatherings, hotel lobbies and the pub.

About $100 from Hammacher Schlemmer.

ohgizmo

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WH94ikvtEM

Rathergood‘s Pop Stasi video: originally made as a promo for J20 fizzy water, this is the commercial-free director’s cut.

It’s really rather good.

Rathergoodstuff

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One Rat Short: a very slick animation that tells the tale of a rat on a quest for a bag of Cheezy Pouffs.

From Charlex, the New York design studio that made the recent Gabriel Byrne-narrated Audi promo.