Well of course Steve Jobs is battling Bill Gates with a lightsaber.

Remember the Taiwanese animation of the (fake) Taliban monkey soldiers from last week?  Good times.  NMA has made another animation, this time about the iPhone 4.  They manage, in only two minutes, to cover the antenna problem, the search warrant for Jason Chen of Gizmodo’s home (misspelling Gizmodo), Consumer Reports’s review, Foxconn worker suicides, and the announcement last Friday that Apple would give out free cases to fix the reception problem (see the important inset picture which was not at all photoshopped).  The video accomplishes all that while also calling Apple products “iCrap”, likening AT&T contracts to a ball and chain, showing Steve Jobs battle Bill Gates with a lightsaber, then remedying one costumer’s antenna complaint by slicing off his pinky and ring fingers with aforementioned lightsaber.  This totally happened.  I seen it.

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“This is my rifle.  There are many like it, but this one is mine.” (Did that monkey just talk?)

The rumor about the Taliban training monkeys to kill anyone “wearing U.S. military uniforms” is a hoax started by the official paper of the Communist Party of China.  It didn’t take long for NMA to make an “action news” animation for Apple Daily, the website of Taiwan’s most widely read paper.  They’ve made similar animations for the Tiger Woods and Al Gore scandals.  Just don’t tell them this story is fake, because these animations are too much fun.

Military rumor investigator Jeff Schogol got in touch with a named NATO spokesman, who said that “We have absolutely nothing that leads us to believe that this tale could be even remotely based in reality.” A primatologist pointed out to him that the picture appears to depict an African baboon and not one of the rhesus monkeys which actually live in central Asia, that you probably couldn’t train a monkey to steadily hold a weapon, and that the sound of the gunfire would “certainly scare most animals and make them stop.” Oh, also: It turns out the gun in the photo is a toy. [Geekosystem]

The video is below, and it’s everything I dreamed it could be.

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Uh . . . interesting thought bubble placement, guys.

Below are four videos for the waterproof power strip from Wet Circuits, featuring Jolin Tsai with her voice dubbed over so badly it’s freaking epic, and I’m going to steal a joke from Engadget commenter rea5245, who said:

Her words say “safe power strip” but her lips say “Godzilla is attacking the city!”

Consider that stolen.  Anyway, the power strip is pretty cool I guess (almost too busy laughing at the dubbing to notice). It costs $35 and they say it will work underwater for up to two hours and has protection against sparks and overheating.  They even show Tsai jam a pair of metal tweezers into both sides of a socket and she seems to have survived.  What they didn’t show was the pile of other Taiwanese singers they went through before they got to the last names starting with T.

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A Taiwanese man wanted to build something practical for his house while also pleasing his son who is a huge Transformers fan.  Well, nothing says “practical household item” like a 14-foot-tall clothes drying rack made from $1,600 worth of scrap metal.  Sounds crazy?  Did I mention it looks like Optimus Prime?  Not so crazy now, is it?  Well, not crazy in a relative sense, say for example, compared to there being a Robot Heaven and Shia LaBeouf going there to meet this drying rack’s ancestors.

More pictures below, along with a somewhat related and awesome video of Paul Merton interviewing Mr. Woo, a Chinese man with no formal education who taught himself how to build small robots with other people’s trash.  Man, I feel lame.  All I ever do with other people’s trash is make papier-mâché replicas of them for the shrine cellar.

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