Modern Warfare 3 is the hot to have game these days, well maybe with the exception of Skyrim, and of course LEGO is the go to fun level for geeks of all ages; but what happens when you decide to mix the two?

Well you get this awesome atop-action video from a YouTuber by the name of Kooberz where the various intros to Modern Warfare 3 are acted out using nothing more than LEGO pieces.

For those of you interested in the technical details you can check out the behind the scenes video on YouTube but suffice to say it was done with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi DSLR with the animations handled by iStopmotion at 24 frames per second.

So without any further ado here is the LEGO version of Modern Warfare 3 for your viewing pleasure.

via DVICE

What do you get when you mashup LEGOs and Modern Warfare 3? How about awesomeness! is a post from: The Inquisitr

We all knew that Netflix is responsible for a lot of Internet traffic but as a result of a new study out today titled 2011 Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report we find out that Netflix is one of the largest consumers of Internet bandwidth clocking in a 32 percent of peak downstream traffic.

As well Netflix is responsible for just about 28 percent of all national bandwidth usage and it is this type of usage that along with three other Internet services: HTTP, BitTorrent, and YouTube, accounts for 64.4 percent of all network traffic in North America.

The report also showed that there is a rapid shift happening away from desktop PCs and moving towards things like set-top boxes, consoles like the Xbox, smartphones and tablets. According to the report only 45 percent of Internet traffic now goes to laptops or desktop computers.

Dave Caputo, CEO of Sandvine says that this shift should be a wake-up call that “counting bytes is no longer sufficient for network planning”, and that more attention needs to be taken to the quality of the video that they are delivering in order for consumers to have a higher quality of experience.

via VentureBeat

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Video sharing site Vimeo has launched its Music Store, making it easier for creators to download music for their videos.

Vimeo will offer more than 45,000 tracks to choose from in various genres.  The advanced search feature allows creators to search the music library either by genre or more than 100 categories of metadata from tempo to mood. This means that video creators can filter their search results to fit their specific scenes.  

Music Store provides users with three types of licensing options:

Creative Commons licenses (free, various licenses);
Personal, non-commercial, web-use licenses for the casual user ($1.99 per track); and
Commercial, web-use licenses for professional users ($98 per track).

Audiosocket provides the Vimeo Music Store with a catalog of over 33,000 songs from more than 1,900 emerging bands, composers and record labels from around the world. Audiosocket curates their content to provide video creators with access to tracks from today’s up-and-coming talent.

Free Music Archive (FMA), curators of free and legal music downloads, offers more than 11,000 Creative Commons-licensed songs through its API. FMA is the first curated platform for artists who wish to participate in the open sharing of their art under the Creative Commons licensing framework.

This is a no-brainer addition to Vimeo. To better understand the new offering, here’s a video introducing Vimeo’s new Music Store.

Vimeo Launches Music Store for Your Videos (I’ll Stick to Free Ones) is a post from: The Inquisitr

The other day I wrote about the judge who felt that citizens being able to record police activity was a bad thing and could lead to “excessive snooping”. Well there is one young man in Los Angeles who is probably really happy that one citizen decided to be ‘snoopy’ and record the police as they arrested him.

According to the original and official police record of the event:

Deputy Levi Belville testified that he saw Gipson in the side yard run and toss a loaded revolver onto the roof of a detached garage. The deputy said he ordered Gipson to stop and that the suspect walked back to Belville, who then detained him.

Now what actually happened thanks to a cellphone video recording made by a citizen:

The footage did not show Gipson running, tossing a gun or walking back to the deputies to be detained. Instead, the grainy video showed deputies arriving and walking past Gipson, who was standing against a wall of the house near the rear of the yard. One of the deputies, Raul Ibarra, returned to Gipson and escorted him to the back of the yard.

Needless to say the jury in the case acquitted Gipson but the fact is that without that video recording he could just as easily have been found guilty and put in jail. Instead we have an embarrassed police department and an officer caught lying. It’s no wonder the police what to make it illegal to record them.

via Techdirt

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I remember reading about this back last year when this idea first surface but I figured that actually seeing a working model would be years out. Well, it turns out I was wrong because Rob Spence, who came up with the idea, has just shown off a working model of his “Eyeborg”.

With the help of a team of engineers Spence worked to adapt an endoscope into a working in-socket video camera. You turn it off an on by waving a magnet near the false eyeball. When turned on it will transmit a video signal to a handheld LCD display.

Now be forewarned, the following video showing the Eyeborg working isn’t for the squeamish as it involves inserting the Eyeborg into the eye socket.

via TechCrunch

It might sound creepy but this “Eyeborg” thing is really cool [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr

Even though it is still being filmed the next, and final, installment of The Dark Knight Rises is creating a growing amount of buzz and excitement. The other day a couple of images of the Bat-Wing leaked on to the web via Twitter and now today we have gotten a whole slew of videos showing the filming of the movie.

The videos show several of the leading characters along with a variety of the vehicles being used in the movie. Thanks to my good friend Sean P. Aune we have them here for you to see for yourself.

Enjoy.

Large dump of videos from the filming of The Dark Knight Rises hits the web is a post from: The Inquisitr

It is a parent’s worst nightmare, their child in harms way and stands a very good chance of dying. Such is the case with Matt Mina, 17, as his parents hoped and prayed that rescuers would save Matt after he found himself buried alive at Newport Beach.

Matt, 17, had been digging a hole in the sand about five feet below the surface when the surrounding sand caved in on him. Luckily Matt had been able to raise his head as the sand collapsed around him to create an air pocket that helped keep him alive long enough for the rescuers to save him.

“I thought I was going to die,” Mina said on TODAY. “I was just really scared. I didn’t know if anyone could hear me when I was screaming for help.”

Snead said the big turnout of rescue crews and volunteers was dramatic and a little bit chaotic.

“Everybody wanted to help,” said Snead. “But it was backfiring because they were like caving it in a little. The sand just rushes in.”

Snead didn’t think it would end well.

“I think everyone was expecting them to pull up a dead body,” said Snead. “Especially after like 20 minutes.”

Lifeguards were able to free him in about a half-hour,  Schulz said.

via NBC Los Angeles

Here are a couple of videos of the rescue and his interview on the Today Show.

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While they still are trying to figure out who was behind the bombing and subsequent shooting at a children’s center the horror of what has happen is spreading around the world as you can see in the following videos.

This first one is just raw video of someone wandering through the rubble and aftermath and is probably the most haunting of them all.

Our thoughts and prays go out to everyone in Oslo as they come to grips with this horrific incident.

The horror of Oslo Norway following the bombing as seen in video is a post from: The Inquisitr

Deus Ex was one of my favorite games back in the day and like every other fan it was one of those games we always wanted a sequel to, and as we know there is one called Deus Ex: Human Revolution and it is full of all kinds of gaming goodness.

In the lead up to its release we have been getting the occasional teaser video being released but today IGN has made available a 12 minute look at the game along with a background discussion about the game with the game director Jean-Francois Dugas.

Enjoy.

via Geeks are Sexy

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Are you ready to get zombified for another season?

Well just in case you are and you were a fan of the AMC show The Walking Dead then we have a real treat for you. It seems that AMC has released a teaser for Season 2 of the show and we have it right here for you to watch.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIuP9JiRjM&w=550

Get your Season 2 teaser of The Walking Dead right here [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr

Women and make-up … they go hand in hand. Some women are subdued in their use of make-up while others .. well you’d think they needed a spatula to put it on and a putty knife to take it off.

To give you an idea of just how much 365 days worth of make up looks like film directing duo Lernert & Sander applied a year;’s worth of make in nine hours and made a video of the experience.

What was Lernert & Sander’s mission statement? “We wanted to apply 365 layers of makeup in one day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one.”

via io9

So with that here’s their video called Natural Beauty.

Ever wonder what a year’s worth of make-up looks like? [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr

I’ve never been an intern nor have I ever hired one but I sure hope this isn’t a common experience.

hat tip to @pauloflaherty on this one

The intern interview from hell is a post from: The Inquisitr

Get out the Kleenex folks because this one will have the tears just a flowing and setting the bar for wedding proposals higher.

Here’s the story from Matt, the boyfriend:

“My girlfriend Ginny gets taken to the movie theater to see ‘Fast Five.’ After a preview for the Hangover 2, a trailer for a movie comes on. A trailer I made of her father and I where I ask her father for her hand in marriage. After he gives me permission, I race off to the theater she is at to ask her to marry me.

“What she doesn’t know is our family and friends are in the theater with her watching the whole thing, along with about 100 strangers.”

via My Modern Metropolis

Match this guys.

The most awesome, the most incredible marriage proposal EVAR! Video goes viral is a post from: The Inquisitr

There are a lot of things one could think of doing with a huge beard like YouTuber beardpick is sporting. Hell they even have yearly competitions for the most creative restructuring of facial hair into ridiculous shapes but somehow I don’t think that turning one into a wooden porcupine would be on the ticket.

However, that doesn’t stop beardpick from trying to break his own record of stuffing his beard with 2,000 toothpicks. Unfortunately though he doesn’t make it to his goal of 3,000 but instead has to be satisfied with just a measly 2,747 toothpicks.

via Geekosystem

[Moron Dept] Something you wouldn’t think of doing with a beard (Video) is a post from: The Inquisitr

While this is being humorously billed as the perfect solution for those people that are fed up with their face showing up in places like CCTV cameras or Google Street view; the fact is that not only will you look like an idiot for wearing one wearing one but children will either run screaming or group around you laughing as they poke their fingers at you.

Right now this is more of an art project by Martin Backes but apparently it is something that he is looking to make a limited number of.

via The Next Web

[Moron Dept.] Make little kids laugh at you as you wear your Pixelhead is a post from: The Inquisitr

I was just getting ready to hit the sack last night when the news of the devastating 8.9 earthquake hitting Japan flashed across my Twitter stream with links to video being caught by people in the affected area, as well as the professional television news services in Japan.

That has to be one of the most incredible aspects of our growing mobile world and mobile phones that are more than capable of capturing events as they unfold and then shared around the world.

Here is a small round up to this point of videos that have been posted to YouTube detailing the growing devastation that is hitting Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UfzlJEMJS4&w=550

Japanese 8.9 Earthquake Video Roundup is a post from: The Inquisitr

Mind you it’s one thing to watch, if even vicariously, from afar but it is another thing all together when the video you are watching is a part of the falling.

via DVICE

[WOW Dept.] Skier captures his own fall on video is a post from: The Inquisitr

Just in time for Valentine’s Day we get to find out just where the term French kissing came from and I won’t spoil it for you by letting anything pass by these lips.

And as a bonus here is two robots kissing.

via Geeks are Sexy

Hot Russian babe explains French kissing [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr

This is awesome and a big thanks to @chrisjohnston for putting the link out on Twitter.

It seems that VW’s Black Beetle has taken over YouTube and in the process totally destroyed the site, or at least the page that the video is playing on. Now I could play the video at this point but you wouldn’t get the full effect so do yourself a favor and click the link to head over to YouTube and check it out.

Very Cool.

Volkswagon takes over YouTube is a post from: The Inquisitr

Who knew that the folks at NASA were so cool. I mean you gotta admit the idea of taking some of the really high resolution images of Mars’ surface, taken by NASA’s HiRISE orbiter, combine them with some really cool music to create a beautiful video.

via io9

NASA gets all cool with a music video of Martian sand dunes is a post from: The Inquisitr