Best tech videos of the week: Banana phones, iPads-turned-snowboards & weighing $1M with your mind

University of Tokyo's Invoked Computing aims to make everyday items into communications or computing devices

University of Tokyo researchers working in the area of "invoked computing" are turning everday objects into communications and computing devices, such as converting bananas into phones and pizza boxes into laptop PCs. One researcher says they are trying to turn the idea that you need to learn yoru device on its head, and enable devices to learn what you want to do. High-speed cameras, parametric speaker arrays and other tools are used to create invoked computing prototypes.

A million dollars is a ton of money, literally, or so says this brainiac, who figures it out by tapping his knowledge of how much a Harry Potter book weighs, among other things.

The death of Steve Jobs inspires creation of an iPad-embedded snowboard (via Every Third Thursday).

I won't pretend to know much about Thundercats, but I know it's geeky and I know this video that scrunches 1,000 hours of work by an artist into under 3 minutes is cool. The artist paints Thundercat soliders onto a 6 by 11 foot canvas, and the video pieces together 1,500 photos of the project taken during the artist's project.

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