Hasta La Gadget!

Google’s new standalone Camera app is a sleek and powerful alternative to the stock Android camera. Turns out, it’s also a soldier in the war against vertical videos . Try to shoot a portrait-framed vid, and you’ll stare down the cold judgment of an icon telling you you’re doing it wrong. You’ve been warned.

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Bigger is always better, especially if you want to get the internet’s attention. This super-sized game of Jenga should get the even the most cynical netizens to take notice.

This is Jenga on steroids. Note that call the game “Stack”, because nobody wants to get sued. The playing pieces are 600-pound blocks of wood and the players are operating five different pieces of heavy equipment to remove them. The video is a promotional video from Cat Products (Caterpillar) and you have to hand it to them, this is a great way to draw attention to their equipment.

All I know is, When that stack falls over, you’d better be standing well away from it.

[via Viral Viral Videos via Neatorama]

Are your ears ringing? Does your heart skip a beat? Well, they should – as two divergent forms of malware attacked
our online sense of well-being this week. Engineered by social media
gurus on one front and hackers on the other, one was analogous to an American Idol trainwreck, while the other, the work of a nefarious cat burglar

Are you tired of the battle for the Iron Throne? Sick of seeing the great houses of Westeros fight? Well, get ready for A Game of Social Thrones. King’s Landing is Instagram. Lands across the Narrow Sea? Twitter.

This parody comes from HootSuite. It is a fun take on the opening credits of Game of Thrones that makes it all about social media. It is very nicely done. Just like great houses of Westeros, social media giants rise and fall so the map is constantly changing.

In the game of social thrones you win or you lose users. There is no middle ground. You can be a Facebook or a Myspace. Or Friendster.

[via Mashable via Nerd Approved]

By now you’ve probably heard the theme song and seen the intro to Game of Thrones a thousand times. If you really enjoy it, you’re going to love this version of the intro for Skyrim.

Skyrim’s world layout and gameplay don’t have anything to do with George R. R. Martin’s epic books, but there are enough similarities to mash the two together into a neat new opening video called “Thrones.” Because why not? In fact, I would guess that more than half of Skyrim players have already read the books or watched the show. Check the intro out for yourself:

Skyrim fans will recognize recreations of each of the major game areas, portrayed as if they were the separate family-owned lands from Game of Thrones. Brady Wold, the creator of the video, says that it started off as a fun project to kill an afternoon, but soon turned into thousands of hours of work, using After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, and ZBrush.

[via Geek]