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The internet was kind to us last week. Here’s some of our favourite nuggets of goodness.

More Gymkhana madness

Part five of Ken Block’s (DC Shoes owner and rally driver) Gymkhana series. This time we’re taken on a visually stunning tour of San Francisco, where he shows off yet more of his utterly insane driving skills.

Lego Builders of Sound

To promote the new Lego Star Wars range of toys, a ‘barrel organ’ was created completely from Lego bricks and characters. When the barrel organ is turns, it plays the Star Wars theme.

How far will you go for a free snack?

Australian brand Fantastic Delite wanted to find out. So they built a vending machine dishing out various tasks for the public to perform in exchange for a tasty treat. From hitting a button on the machine 100 times (which eventually rose to 5,000!) to standing on one leg and dancing in the street, it seems people will do nearly anything for free swag.

The V Motion Project

Hook up a Kinect to some music production software and what do you get? Something like this…

More behind the scenes info here.

Perfect Curve’s Digital Strategy

“Digital is one of the most crucial things for a modern brand manager to get right, so the pressure is on for Siobhan to explain her strategy”. Who else has heard industry folk making just as much sense as this? ;-)

O2: Relaxed Community Management

O2 had all sorts of network problems last week. But it seems they loosened the reigns on their Community Manager, providing us with some entertaining tweet exchanges. Nice work shifting the focus onto O2 lols and away from having no phone signal!

Read some of the best tweets here.

Google pull out all the stops

We’ve been getting pretty excited since the announcement of Google’s Project Glass, but this live demo really kicked our “just shut up and take our money!” thoughts into overdrive. Skydiving, backflipping, abseiling-whilst-Google Hangout-ing madness.

Build stuff with Lego, in Chrome.

Sticking with Google, they created this rather fun demonstration of Chrome’s abilities, allowing you to build things with Lego. Who doesn’t love playing with Lego?

Build with Chrome.

Canon Mixed Reality Headset

Pretty impressive tech from Canon, with plenty of potential uses – the most obvious being to train engineers and technicians to work on complicated machines. We’re sure we’ll be seeing some fascinating uses of this technology over the coming months.

Gilt taste

The iPad is great to use in the kitchen, with a whole host of recipes and cooking apps at your fingertips. What’s not so great is when you’re in the middle of a recipe, your hands are covered in flour and eggs, but you need to scroll or turn a page. It’s a classic problem, which this app solves by using the front facing camera and simple gesturing.

Read more here.

Foodmood

A really interesting app that measures food sentiment across the globe, via tweets. You can drill down to individual countries, and there’s plenty of things to play with.

Check it out here.