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Youtube have an awesome series of infographics based on the fact that “every second, one hour of video is uploaded to youtube”.

See for yourself at www.onehourpersecond.com

Microsoft have done another ‘vision’ video, this is thier 2011 future vision of office productivity. Nice.

Codecademy is a new website which teaches basic programming concepts in a nice easy to use website. I imagine that they plan to add extra (more complex) courses over time, hopefully it will take off!

Ars Technica has a first look at Windows 8, with it’s Metro (Windows Phone 7) touch interface.

Whilst I appreciate what Microsoft are doing, and it’s great for tablets and other touch based devices, I can’t see this bringing any benefits to the vast majority of office based workers who spend 90% of their time inside office applications and programming IDEs.

Google have put up a website where you can send ‘care packages’ to an email address, showing them how to do things like copy & paste, resize pictures, attach files to emails and so on – pretty handy in this holiday season!

Check it out at www.teachparentstech.org

Not only is this Lego RC vehicle awesome, lego RC cars were also used to make this video!

Makes me want to break out the lego kit we’ve got in the office store room! See more at this guy’s blog post

This nifty software is able to isolate objects from video footage and remove them in real time…

Translucent touch-screens, hoverboards and wristwatch computers; probably the three indicators I need to see to make me feel I’m actually in the future! Sony aim to appease one of my criteria with their new LiveView device, a wrist based device that links via Bluetooth to your Android based phone.

It presents you with your latest text messages, and lord forbid; Facebook updates, so you’re never too far from hearing about how many cows have been milked on your “friend’s” farm, or exactly what particular heated beverage your other “friend” has decided to consume this morning via their Twitter feed; all saving you the arduous work of reaching into your pocket to read it off your phone screen (!).

I don’t exactly know who Sony are trying to please here, there’s not really a market for parasitic devices like these. If you really can’t reach into your pocket to take your phone out when it buzzes, you might as well hang it around your neck.