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How Blind People Use Instagram

Tweet Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, demonstrates how to use Instagram on the iPhone 4S. He uses the Accessibility setting on the phone which allows him to navigate the touch-screen and some applications. Follow Tommy on Instagram @blindfilmcritic

KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA FIVE: ULTIMATE URBAN PLAYGROUND; SAN FRANCISCO

Tweet DC and Ken Block present Gymkhana FIVE: Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco. Shot on the actual streets of San Francisco, California, GYM5 features a focus on fast, raw and precise driving action. Filmed over four days, director Ben Conrad and his team are back to work on their second Gymkhana production and delivered the entire city of San Francisco as Ken Block's personal gymkhana playground. DC Shoes also provided fellow DC athlete and longtime Ken Block friend, Travis Pastrana, to make a cameo appearance on his dirtbike, and S.F. resident Jake Phelps of Thrasher Magazine fame also makes a cameo as Block hoons S.F. in his most incredible Gymkhana yet.

Adopt or next cats on Catroulette

Tweet Simple. Cute. Possibly very effective. Catroulette is a website that offers the opportunity to adopt homeless cats. Freely inspired to the chat roulette concept, the website showcases random short videos of cats available for adoption in Belgium. Check it out here

Social Media Statistics 2013

Tweet Social Media Statistics 2013 from Video. Over 1 billion users on Facebook. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest and 2x the size of the U.S. population. Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old. Each day 20% of Google searches have never been searched before. In 10 years over 40% of the Fortune 500 will no longer be here. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web. 1 in 5 couples meet online; 3 in 5 gay couples meet online. 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on Facebook. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook… Ford Explorer launch on Facebook more effective than a Super Bowl Ad. 69 percent of parents said they are currently “friends” with their children on a social media site. 92% of children in the US have a digital footprint/shadow. Every second 2 new members join LinkedIn. More members join LinkedIn per day than the entire enrollment of all the IVY League Schools. Social Gamers to buy 6 billion in virtual goods by 2013; movie goers only buy 2.5 million in concessions. Every minute 72 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. If Wikipedia were made into a book it would be 2.25 million pages long. 97% of Pinterest Facebook Fans are Women. 53% of people on Twitter recommend products in their Tweets. 90% of people trust online recommendations from people they know. Only 14% trust traditional TV advertisements. New Yorkers received tweets about an east coast earthquake 30 seconds before they felt it. 93% of marketers use social media for business. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina, United Kingdom, Egypt “We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it.” – Erik Qualman. “We will non longer search for products and services, they will find us via social media.” – Erik Qualman. “Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.” – Erik Qualman. “The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.” - Erik Qualman.

Compressorhead: An Entirely Robotic Metal Band

Tweet This is a video of the robotic band Compressorhead practicing in the garage of some human they likely killed. Unfortunately (or is it?), as somebody pointed out in the video's comments, you can really only hear the drums. You know why? Because robotic sound guys SUCK. Consider that a heads up for any of you bands out there trying to save a couple bucks by hiring a robot -- you want a HUMAN sound guy. The longer the ponytail the better.

Real time countdown to Gangnam Style passing one billion views

Tweet The site takes the latest YouTube view count and extrapolates the view/second rate based on the previous viewcount change - it's impressive to see just how many views the video is getting! It is widely believed that Gangnam Style will pass the one billion view mark on the 21st December 2012. Strangely coinciding with the Mayan prediction for the end of the world.

A small demonstration - Windows 8

Tweet This is the best thing I'v ever seen from Microsoft, and I'm not talking about Windows. This little film is brilliant, and cute. Is Windows 8 really that simple? Find out the answer in a surprisingly simple stunt that took place in December 7th, in a Fnac store in Lisbon. The moment speaks for itself.

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How far will human lab mice go for Fantastic Delites? - Delite-o-matic

Tweet Fantastic Delites created a human mouse lab experiment to see how far people were willing to go on a human size running wheel, just to get a free packet of Fantastic Delites.

Hankook Tire: The Future of Tyre Design

Tweet A Hankook Tire competition in the US has challenged some of the country's brightest industrial design students to imagine the role of tyres in automotive design from new angles. The winning entry by University of Cincinnati student Ben Zavala took the brief somewhat literally, with his Tiltread car tyre rolling into corners at an angle like a motorcycle tyre. Zavala's breakthrough idea was to split the tyre into three parallel ring sections, each mounted on a corresponding split section of wheel. As the wheel turns and leans, the three tyre sections are individually raised or lowered, allowing them all to maintain traction with the road surface. Tiltread's wheels are hubless and contain an electric drive motor which varies power to each tyre section, allowing the sections to spin at different rates during cornering.

Google Zeitgeist 2012: A Year In Search

Tweet Here it is again, the Google Zeitgeist, summarising the years most popular searches in a great video round-up. So what featured this year? Well Red Bull did pretty well as always, but they really smashed it this year, becoming the opening and closing pieces of content. Meanwhile, just about everything you’d expect made it in, along with a few pieces that you would have thought wow, how’d that make it! Click here to enjoy the full Google Zeitgeist 2012 site.