The Best Videos of the Week [Video]

Maybe you stayed offline all week and couldn't check out your favorite Gawker Media sites. Or maybe you just got back from an awkward brunch and want to escape for a bit. Well, whatever the case, we've got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched during the week that was.
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Sex doll tech moves to the dentist's chair

Showa Hanako, a robotic dental patient created to help train dental students, gets more realistic, thanks to silicone parts from a Japanese sex doll maker.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20076193-1/sex-doll-tech-moves-to-the-dentists-chair/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Christian Goethals Paul Goldsmith José Froilán González Oscar González Aldo Gordini Horace Gould

iRacer Profile: Bill Brown

For a self-described “old, broke, washed-up, wanna-be racer,” Bill Brown isn’t doing too badly.  The 30-something Floridian holds-down top ten positions in Division One of both the iRacing.com Street Stock and SK Modified Series and, at the time of this writing, stands P15 in the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series, again in Division One.  And while he’s not an imminent threat to knock Klaus Kivekäs, Hugo Luis, Greger Huttu and Jesse Nieminen from top spots in the iRacing World Championship Series Road Racing, the Panama City resident did collect a Mazda MX5 win at Lime Rock last season and recently followed that up with a fifth place finish in an NVIDIA Cup race at Okayama International Circuit. All this, as Brown notes in his profile, for less than he used [...]

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/iracing-news/iracer-profile-bill-brown/

Peter Hirt David Hobbs Gary Hocking Ingo Hoffmann Bill Holland Jackie Holmes

Google Responds To Nortel Patent Loss: ?The Outcome Is Disappointing?

Late last night, it was revealed that Nortel had picked a winner for their patent portfolio. To the surprise of many, that winner was not Google, which had put up the initial "stalking horse" bid to get the ball rolling. Instead, the winner was a "consortium" of industry players ? a consortium that includes Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, and others. In other words, this sounds to us like the absolute worst possible scenario for Google. It's not just that one of their major rivals won the rights to the over 6,000 patents. It's that all of them did. Unsurprisingly, Google is not happy. "This outcome is disappointing for anyone who believes that open innovation benefits users and promotes creativity and competition. We will keep working to reduce the current flood of patent litigation that hurts both innovators and consumers," Kent Walker, Google's Senior Vice President and General Counsel said in a statement that Google sent out to members of the press.

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Dave Kennedy Loris Kessel Bruce Kessler Nicolas Kiesa Leo Kinnunen Danny Kladis

Google?s Nexus Contraptions Bring A Rube Goldberg Diversion To YouTube

Here's a good way to spend the last few hours of your work week as we head into the long holiday weekend: Google has just launched a new game called Nexus Contraptions. It's full of slick graphics, physics, and gadgetry, and while I'm not entirely sure what it has to do with Android, it's fun. The game is similar to a handful of games you'll find on Android and iOS (or, for your old-school gamers out there, The Incredible Machine). You're tasked with getting a ball to a special funnel by constructing a Rube Goldberg-esque machine filled with bouncy things, fans, and magnets.

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