Electronics retailer Comet is about to start an ad campaign called "A Bluffer's Guide to Gadgets", and it's recruited veteran secret-camera comedian Dom Joly to help. He's filmed trying to convince the British public that gadgets can do all sorts of insane stuff, like toasting an egg, or putting holograms on your car dashboard.

Again, not quite on YouTube, but I couldn't resist this adorable video of pixellated office workers taking you through the history of computing in the form of interpretive dance. The music's rather charming as well. I think we might have a rival to our very own Tech Trumpet.

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A team from the UK and Japan has managed to track down and film the deepest ever living fish. They found the 17-strong shoal chillin' (literally) in a trench in the Pacific, 7.7km down from the surface. One of the scientists, Monty Priede from the University of Aberdeen, described the fish as "surprisingly cute".

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Ok, so not strictly from YouTube but a video nonetheless, and a good one at that, as we get another take on that Bill O'Reilly incident courtesy of a rather frighteningly impressive Lil' Bill.

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This is a musical road. It's near Lancaster, California, and was built for an advert. When you drive over the tarmac, it creates harmonics that play a tune. Obviously the faster you drive over it, the faster the song will be. Interesting to see the Doppler effect come into play, though, when other cars drive by.

Oh, and while we're talking YouTube videos, Shiny Shiny have a brilliant XKCD comic this morning.

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So this is where American taxpayer's cash is going, and why NASA can't afford to develop a space shuttle replacement. They're commissioning Welsh students to rap for them. Full credit to the bloke though, he's actually really good...

A few months back when summer had just begun and we were expecting sunshine in the weeks to come - oh those heady days! - Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, announced that he'd agreed with Google to make some animated comedy for the internet steam roller to use in its AdSense campaigns, and look, that's exactly what he's done!

So, here for your enjoyment is the first of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Comedy and this is apparently what really happens at the end of Super Mario Bros. Another episode after the jump...

If the turning on of the Large Hadron Collider does trigger some sort of dimensional portal and alien invasion, at least the men and women of CERN will be prepared. Or they will if anyone on their team is as badass as Gordon Freeman...

The team over at social bookmarking service Reddit have sent a crowbar painted red, a headcrab and a Half-Life strategy guide over to the team at the Large Hadron Collider. It should keep them safe and help them negotiate any resonance cascades or other "Unforseen Consequences".

Here's a fantastic short video of lightning striking a beach, tens of metres away from the cameraman. Lightning, as I'm sure you're all aware, is caused by ice crystals rubbing together and transferring charged particles in storm clouds. What you might not know is that thunder is the sound of the air along the lightning bolt's path being instantaneously heated to 30,000°C! Warning: mildly NSFW language.

If this doesn't put a smile on your face this morning then there's a good chance something seriously nasty happened to you over the weekend, in which case I suggest you watch Randy George playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on the theremin and at least try to forget about your best mate eloping with your wife, who turned out to be a man anyway, the day after you got fired from your job, your house got repossessed and you found out your children aren't yours.

This vid has ammassed around 63,000 views in just two days and if you can't get enough of that then fear not, you don't have to. Mr George has his own theremin YouTube channel featuring non-other than the Legend of Zelda theme too.

(via New Launches)

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Sort of stunning really, isn't it? No cameras were used in the production of this video for Radiohead's "House of Cards". What you're looking at is data - ether my friends, it doesn't even exist.

We saw before what happens when a kid gets stuck in a claw grabber machine but the major mystery was how on Earth the little tyke got in there in the first place. Here today to answer that question is a young lady from the other side of the pond who doesn't really seem to be fazed by the prospect of being smothered by a thousand Beanie Baby knock offs.

(via Gearfuse)

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A man with serious aggression issues and double hard, unbreakable umbrella is a very dangerous combination. He may look like the Milk Tray man and be all mild manner when he's got the brolly up but woe betide any mugger who takes him on.

(via Core 77)

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They may have taken it down from YouTube but we don't give up that easy here at Tech Digest. After some minor rifling, I've managed to track down a clip of a bloke in Delhi, I think it is, kicking back sending a text message oh his bike while burning down the motorway doing 60mph. Oh, and he's lying down too.

I am by no means suggesting that this is cool. I'm not suggesting that this isn't cool either, but how cool will he feel when he's all run over and dead? Yeah. He'll look cool then won't he? In fact, his final words will probably be "How cool am I?" just before he dies, except he'll be texting them. Then the answer will come back: "So cool, you're dead."

(via a welsh view)

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Navtones is a company that offers celebrity voices for your sat-nav, with Mr. T being an obvious favourite. Any GPS product that can swear at you by saying "I said turn right, not left, you damn fool!" gets two hearty thumbs up.

They've now put a video up on YouTube of Mr. T navigating Mario on Mario Kart, providing instant giggles to your day. Enjoy.

Navtones

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Those Blendtec blenders sure are powerful, but can they blend a man's face? Take a look above!

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Genius. That's the only word to describe this, pure genius. I've a feeling it was more of a feat of fun and engineering to make a robotic band than a statement about the corporate produced, faceless pop groups constantly churned out by the majors but it still makes a bloody good point.

tumblr. - The Documentary from DaveAOK on Vimeo.
Tumblr, for those not in the know, is a micro-blogging platform where you 'reblog' things of interest you see around the internet. It's a fantastic service, although I must admit mine has been rather neglected of late.

This 'documentary' is a hilarious look at the site, and the type of people who inhabit it - 'idiots and arseholes', apparently. It's worth a quick look if only for the chuckles you'll get with the introduction, done in a 'Look Around You' stylee.

(via Born Under Punches)

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Pretty soon we'll be seeing this advert on TV, and moaning about how overplayed it is. In fact, I bet many of you are already moaning about that, as every tech site has posted it in the last few hours.

Still, worth a watch, just once, if only so you can press 'mute' on your TV remote control when it interrupts your Big Brother viewing.

Apple

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Revamped Graphic Equalizer from Marcelo Costa on Vimeo.

This fun stop-motion video takes everyday items and turns them into graphic equalisers, with the fast soundtrack providing the basis for chairs, Smarties, drinks and candles to pulsate in time.

Video (via Wooster Collective)

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