People have already been losing weight using the Nintendo Wii. For a lot of people, it’s a great way to be active without having to consciously go out and exercise at a gym. It looks like Nintendo has responded to this demand with WiiFit, a game that comes with a slim board that acts as the interface for your workout.

By the looks of the trailer, there are a plethora of ways to exercise with the game, including yoga, balancing, and aerobics. And, of course, the game will keep track of important stats like BMI for all of us stat geeks.

Nintendo is really understanding the market for nontraditional gamers right now, which is much larger than originally anticipated in the US. They project that they Wii will soon be Number 1 worldwide.

WiiFit Trailer

One of my all time favorite classic shows, Get Smart, is going to the theaters! Steve Carell plays Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway Agent 99. Hopefully, they don’t screw it up, because this has the potential to be really good.

Teaser for Get Smart

It turns out that the Red Savina habenero chile pepper has been surpassed by the Indian Naga Jolokia, which peaks at about 970,000 Scoville units. The Red Savina peaked at about 580,000 Scovilles.

This is really spicy. To give you a sense of scale, the Thai pepper, which is already too spicy for most people, only attains about 100,000 Scovilles. The weak jalapeño pepper only hits 8000 Scovilles.

In honor of this pepper, Grant, the pepper guy, video taped himself taking a healthy bite of this insanely hot pepper. Sheer madness.

Tired of all those street magicians that claim that all the people in their YouTube videos are genuine strangers on the street? Here’s a really funny parody on that, and more. Starts a little slow, but gets really good.

Apparently, the Japanese have now created a simulator that feels exactly like popping bubble wrap. This, my friends, is the epitome of human technology.

This Sprint commercial employs an awesome flashlight-painting stop motion animation. Basically, if the artist chose to do it the real way without CG, they used a flashlight to draw each frame of the stop motion animation during a long exposure shot. It had to have taken days to accomplish, and, I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of coordination that was necessary to pull it off. Also, the music is from the eclectic Australian band Architecture in Helsinki.

The Original Commercial

UPDATE: The following video is a behind the scenes look at how they made the commercial. It turns out they did do it the long and hard way, without any assistance from computers or lit wires. Truly amazing. Thanks rw for the pointer!

Making of the Sprint Commercial

This is a video of the sad life of a Goomba in World 1-1. Simply waiting, and waiting, for their demise. Don’t trash them until you put yourself in their shoes.

More is a great short film created by Mark Osborne back in 1998, only to see Hollywood confused as to what to do with it. Then, five years later, he uploaded it to the internet and garnered a huge audience. It’s a great little 6 minute film that took a gigantic 6 months to create.

Oh, and it’s also the first stop motion film to use the IMAX format.

Watch it here.

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I present to you the top 10 crazy microwave videos!

10. CD

9. Light Bulb

8. Graphite

7. Condom

6. Tin Foil

5. Christmas Lights

4. Soap

3. Furby

2. Petrol

1. Lit Match

This one produces a cool plasma gas that floats on top of the jar.