Yep, just a video of an antique Osram lightbulb... with some music. Almost 100 years old and it still works as well. Your modern CFL bulb has nothing on this bad boy.

Circuit bent Speak & Spells seems to have been beaten to death, but this guy uses an educational computer (unidentifiable) with similar technology. The ungarbled speech sounds much more pleasant like... more inside

Short timelapse of fireworks in Japan, I do not know the location. Is it just me, or do the fireworks here not launch very high? Japanese law? From YT - Timelapse Japanese Firework. HANABI TAIKAI. Picture by DSLR EOS5D mk2.

A couple of engineers at IBM work on a prototype device that would eventually become the ubiquitous TrackPoint mouse on ThinkPad laptops as well as other manufacturers. What I found to be interesting is the psychological and usability testing seems to be taken as important as mechanical testing.

Adobe gives off a short demo of Flash 10.1 running on the new Google Nexus One smartphone. What is most important here is how most video on the web today is now flash based and I imagine this site would... more inside

One of the latest trends (or fads?) in computer science and gadgetry is that wonderful magic of multi-touch where you can manipulate objects with two or more fingers that brings us one step closer to the... more inside

A longplay of the 1988 arcade game The New Zealand story, which may perhaps be one of the cutest videogames ever made. I thought this may be interesting as most people have never even heard of this game. Part 2 of the playthrough is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSO4MAeHQ2M

Michel Gondry directed this ad for Levi's 501 Jeans. Why can't we have all commercials be this awesome? I'm surprised this was not on the sift before...

Panasonic promotional video from 1981 produced by Robert Able & Associates. This video won them a Clio award and was produced towards the end of the vector graphics era for CGI. Full colour was usually... more inside

One of the better demos on the Commodore 64, Deus Ex Machina was released at the Mekka & Symposium 2000 Party. Not bad for a machine with only 16 colours, 64k of memory, 3 channel sound, and a notoriously slow disk drive.

Highlights from 30 years of winners from the Japanese talent show Kasou Taishou, or better known to the most of the internet where Matrix Pong "came from". I think the one at 3:19 is great ^^