Dead tired in this month's Bizarre Magazine

Bizarre included our Dead tired Pillow's in this month's issue. The guys at Bizarre are awesome and they're magazine is full of loads of weird and fun stuff! Thanks for including us in your latest issue!

Tom
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Worlds Largest Snow Sculpture of Santa

Known as ‘The Ice City’ each year China’s Harbin hosts the International Ice and Snow Festival which officially begins on January 5th and attracting approximately 800,000 tourists. Despite temperatures plummeting to -24F in winter organizers have revealed that the effects of global warming are taking a toll as the snow and ice now melt more rapidly than in the past.






This giant Santa Claus ice sculpture, stands at an impressive 160 meters (525 ft) long and 24 meters (79 ft) high and uses approximately 13,000 cubic meters of snow. The weather swings between warm and cold, so it becomes very wet and slippery on the ice making it very dangerous for the builders to work.

Ken Block's snowboard/rally

Ken Block and the DC snowboard team combine a rally car with snowboarding at New Zealand's Snow Park NZ resort in September 2007 for DC's snowboard video Mtn.Lab 1.5.



How rad!

Tom
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Human Shadow Puppets

Dance group Pilobolus use a mixture of dance and acrobatics to create spectacular shadows by combining their bodies to create a shape.



Courtney
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Micro Pig

Micro Pigs are the new designer pet and apparently in high demand this Christmas. When born they are the size of a tea cup and weigh only 9oz and grow to be the size of a small dog over two years. They are so adorable its unbelievable and now want one for Christmas.









Courtney
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Robotic hand that can feel!

Last week we brought you the cyborg beetle, now we have the cyborg hand. Developed by teams in Italy and Sweden, the robotic hand has 40 sensors that are directly linked to the brain enabling the user to move the hand like they would with a normal hand.



Courtney
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Back to the Future Rap

It is guarantee that Back to the Future will be on our TV screens this Christmas. For those that cannot be bothered to watch the whole film again, this video sums up the story in a rap in under 5 minutes. It is very impressive but does contain explicit lyrics.



Courtney
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Funny Explosions Video

Cool guys don't look at explosions, need I say anymore.



Courtney
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Paper folding Animation

Donato Sansone has taken animation to a whole new level. By the looks of things he draws his sketches onto hundreds of sheets of paper then folds them up enabling a story to be revealed when unfolded. This video is truly amazing but be warned, this video does contain scenes of a violent nature.



Courtney
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Electronic Art

If your into your electronics or awesome visuals your going to love this one. The guys at Lumisense have created a LED cube which creates patterns in time to music. 512 RGB LEDs are place in a grid of 8x8x8 enabling spectacular visuals to be created. Check out the video!



Courtney
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Remote Controlled Animals

Now this looks like something out of a Sci-Fi movie but this is actually real. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have created a remote controlled Cyborg Beetle. By placing a microprocessor, a radio receiver and a battery onto the beetle, scientists are able to control the beetle's taking off, landing and the direction of which it flys. It does this by sending electrical pulses through electrodes which are implanted into the beetles optic lobes and flight muscles. The Pentagon have provided funding for this project with hopes that the beetle can be used in situation such as search and rescue mission where is may not be safe to send in humans. This amazing piece of technology shows that it is possible for humans to control the flight of an animal so I wonder how much longer it will be until we have remote controlled pets!



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Courtney
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Best Breakdancer ever!

If only...



Tom
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Movember Turned upside down

Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression.

Here at Spinning Hat we had an in house competition between the staff for the best moustache entry for Movember.

And the winner was our Wacky Designer Gary, and boy did he manage to put a spin on things.



Gary dressed his chin up as a police biker. Not only did he win our competition but his chin has also managed to get a part starring in 911.

Spread the word about Movember, its for a great cause, and you get to look like an idiot for a month and get away with it.

Tom
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