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Weird Wide Web: Kicking dogs, beating evil with love and testing you for STDs

All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.

WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.

LOVEly game of the week

Are you a gamer in love? Use that love to obliterate the bad guy’s in this free-to-play PC game.

Björn Borg / YouTube

Robot of the week

Boston Dynamics unveiled the latest addition to its robotics collection, which looks similar to a dog. They showed how durable and well-balanced it is by, well, giving it a few kicks.

Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics

Safe sex gadget of the week

A team of researchers have built an STD testing device that can plug into your smartphone. It is hoped this technology could be used to make tests more accessible for people, as it can test for HIV and syphilis from a single prick of blood.

Sia Lab Sia Lab

Stunning smartphone performance of the week

Google Japan released this gorgeous video of hundreds of Android phones and tablet playing Bethoven’s well-known Ode to joy together. Venture Beat reported that the “Android Chorus” performed in Toyko for a few days afterwards.

Button comeback of the week

Let’s be honest, touch screen keyboards are really bloody annoying sometimes. Tactus Technology will soon be selling these covers, which use a type of oil to create bumps that rise up on the surface of the screen to use as buttons, Gizmodo reports. Theses bumps then disappear when you’re done typing. Wonderful.

Phorm Phorm

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    Mute Steve McDermott
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:17 PM

    Irish lads in Dublin, ya that sounds about right. Bad jokes aside, Will Farrell seems like mad craic

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    Mute Linny
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:39 PM

    I already know Ryan will make a mess of this. Are they appearing on Graham Norton same time Friday night?

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    Dec 10th 2015, 12:16 AM

    Looking forward to another cringe fest by Tubridy this Friday

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    Mute Supernova
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    Dec 10th 2015, 12:23 AM

    Tubridy – so will TELL ME ABOUT YOU’RE IRISH HERITAGE!! Are Irish yeah???

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    Mute Supernova
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:19 PM

    Forget the stereotype about Ireland’s drinking culture.. We’re the best craic in the world :)

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    Mute Gavin Scott
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:17 PM

    Great. Thanks to Will they will be putting up the price of alcohol again.

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    Mute Irish Soccer Lad
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:26 PM

    WE’RE GOING STREAKING!!

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    Mute Donal O'Brien
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:31 PM

    Recorded interviews for the late late are lame.

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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:49 PM

    Turdreddy with 2 yanks and a clap machine.
    Whopee

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    Mute Patrick Agnew
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:17 PM

    Yeah ok, laugh at the drunken paddy stereotype. I don’t give a gick what they think

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    Mute HUMANFROMPLANETEARTH
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:48 PM

    Amen.
    More Drunken Leprechaun Booze Up Cr@p from weirdo closet T totalling yogamaster kiddy entertainers .
    Any chance of banning booze altogether?
    I’m sick of the previous generation gargling up their fat pensions and abusing their bodies with cream buns and fags and then expecting so called “doctors” to work miracles on their carcasses with extortionate pills and procedures while we all foot the bill for their gluttony and exuberance.
    Just listen to the f€ckers.
    “Ohh in my day all the food was natural and organic” as they chomp into a bar of chocolate with the HSE false teeth.

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    Mute Watcher-on-the-Wall
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    Dec 10th 2015, 12:17 AM

    Do you want salt on those chips?

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    Mute HUMANFROMPLANETEARTH
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    Dec 10th 2015, 2:00 AM

    I’ll have mine made with organic freshly picked organic potatoes lightly fried in cold pressed virgin organic olive oil.
    Maybe a little Himalayan salt on the side.
    Thanks.

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    Mute bettyswallocks
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    Dec 10th 2015, 7:45 AM

    With extra organic please.

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    Mute Mairead Ni Chleirigh
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    Dec 9th 2015, 11:19 PM

    I hate these blurred lines

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    Mute Lloyd Hetherington
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    Dec 10th 2015, 8:12 PM

    Scotch all round?

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