Awesome Video

Two-dimensional skateboarders ride, grind and yes, spill in this wonderful stop-motion animation by Tilles Singer, made using magazine cut-outs as well as digital pictures.

Learn about the latest and greatest in Microsoft computing technology, with breakthroughs including a 256-color display, a mouse, and a “rich” graphical user interface.

Watch that girl become invisible with just a press of the Delete key in this demo of the Content Aware Fill Feature in Photoshop CS5, which goes on sale on April 12. See one more demo here.

Running video backwards is always fun, but this cool short film by Danny Brown gives the illusion that he’s able to control rocks with his mind; the trippy soundtrack definitely helps.

Airtight Games’ Dark Void isn’t just another first person shooter; the main character is equipped with a jetpack, introducing elements such as vertical cover (see the video above).

The Urwerk UR-202 has telescopic minute hands, hours satellites and twin turbines. The swanky video (above) shows this in detail, and yet we still feel clueless… all we know is, we want one. Bad.

The BBC’s “Britain From Above” uses satellite data and jazzes it up with computer graphics. Jaw dropping: watch thousands of taxis, boats and planes go about their business.

We’re almost out of the uncanny valley with these digital faces, created by Pendulum Studios’ AlterEgo. Their facial expression software gets the timing down so well that it’s … uncanny.

This spectacular lightning video was taken at 10k frames per second by Tim Samaras. The initial tentacles are electrons heading down; the final stroke is electrons heading back up.

EA’s third-person space zombie shooter is getting a gory animated movie prequel. Titled Dead Space: Downfall, it’s slated for a DVD/Blu-ray release alongside the game in October ’08.