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Dominos with 10,000 iPhone 5 smartphones

We wouldn't speculate whether Apple's market performance has a domino-effect, but these 10,000 tumbling iPhone 5s are fun.

From the Web: 9 in-line simultaneous putts into one hole

How many people can could line up and make a putt at the same time? Seniors in the PGA Golf Management program at Campbell University have answered with a video on YouTube - nine.

Live TV on your mobile with Slingbox

Sling Media recently unveiled two new version of its TV streaming devices that let you watch TV from pretty much anywhere on a computer, tablet or smartphone.

The Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350 bridge your set-top box or DVR to the Internet so you can view your media. Both are capable of 1080p.

The lower cost Slingbox 350 connects via Ethernet and composite video cable. It is priced around $180. The $300 Slingbox 500 adds Wi-Fi and HDMI connectivity.

I'm testing these on the iPhone, iPad and my Android tablet. In addition to those, Slingbox supports Windows Phone and the Kindle Fire.  The requisite SlingPlayer app costs $14.99.

I'd love to hear your experiences with Slingbox.

National honors for Triangle Transit's second-best video

Triangle Transit and GoTriangle have won the American Public Transportation Association's AdWheel Award for social media marketing and communications -- for their first stab at the youth market in "It's Easy, Baby," a transit-promo video featuring three cute toddlers who play grown-up bus commuters.

This is easily the second-best video on GoTriangle's YouTube page -- after the terrific #flipfortransit production that features older youngsters exercising their extraordinary passion for bus travel at various Triangle locales. (See 2/24/12 Road Worrier column.)

Garner gets first look at Scotty's "Water Tower Town"

Garner residents will be the first to check out the new music video from native son Scotty McCreery.

"Water Tower Town" will be shown Thursday through Sunday on Garner's government access channel. (That's channel 11 for Time Warner Cable customers around Garner and channel 99 for AT&T U-verse customers.)

The video also will be shown Thursday night at the Garner Chamber of Commerce's "Taste of the Town" fund-raising event. Go to www.garnerchamber.com for information.

World Record for tightest parallel parking broken

The Guinness World Record for the tightest parallel parking was broken recently in China leaving just a 15-centimeter gap. That's less than 6-inches.  Any challengers? Of course getting out of the space might be an even more impressive feat.

Awesome time lapse of nature and the stars

Via Vimeo here is "The Light of Stars."

Now you can jam with 'Noisy Jelly'

Noisy Jelly is part chemistry, part music, and all geek. With the noisy kit various colors and shapes of jelly molds can be created. The noisy magic comes courtesy a game board that is a capacitor sensor to transform touch into sound.

NOISY JELLY from Raphaël Pluvinage on Vimeo.

Why can't mobile users cache Netflix, YouTube for offline viewing?

Peter Rojas of gdgt brings up one of the best points I've seen this week. Where is the offline caching for popular video services?

Rojas compares Hulu and Netflix to music streaming services like Spotifiy and Rhapsody which offer offline caching that allow wireless subscribers to manage their data usage. Users can download a collection of songs over Wi-Fi before heading out the door.

Why shouldn't free services like YouTube and Vimeo offer offline viewing within their mobile apps where they can still deliver their advertising services?

25,000 images captured to create this beautiful stop motion video

This could be the coolest video you'll see today. This stop motion video was created from paring down 25,000 images to 4,500 images captured over 5 days and 2 nights. The team used tilt-shift photography on a Cannon 55OD to get the miniaturized perspective.

MiniLook Kiev from threeshot on Vimeo.

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