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Have You Seen the Duck Vine? You Should Really See the Duck Vine.

America this morning is no doubt busy at work clicking through all the six-second recaps from Sunday night’s sooo Vineable MTV Video Music Awards.

But trust us, no matter how great the looping vids of the Nicki-Miley beef or Kanye’s presidential announcement are, neither of those was the best Vine of the weekend.

This was:

In fact, the “duck army” Vine is the best piece of media the Internet has produced in the entire month of August — and probably the summer/the year/our lifetimes.

In just under a day of existence, this thing has over 38 million loops (most coming from Yahoo Tech employees, sure). At this rate, “duck army” will probably be the most looped Vine ever by Monday afternoon. (Vine doesn’t make it easy to identify what the current most looped Vine is, but a May 2015 post by Logan Paul has been played over 40 million times.)

As for MTV’s dashed hopes of taking its VMA Vines to a level of historic virality: Kanye, we’re happy for you. And good luck in 2020. But “duck army” is probably the greatest Vine of all time.

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Attention, Princes and Princesses: Disney Unveils an Awesome ‘Interactive Wedding Cake’

Attention, brides-to-be! The magic of Disney hopes to bring a new and delicious technology to your upcoming nuptial celebration: the smart wedding cake.

Shown in the above video, Disney has added a “cake projection mapping” option to its “Wishes Collection” wedding catering package. This whole-new-world dessert display essentially turns the centerpiece of your wedding reception into an animated (though still edible) laser light show.

Disney says the animations projected onto the cake are also customizable. Couples can choose to display anything from personal slideshows to lovey-dovey quotes from favorite poems — things that aren’t necessarily Mickey Mouse-related. Though, to be honest, we’re not sure why any 2014-2015 wedding wouldn’t be Frozen-themed.

For some years now, Disney has been hard at work trying to bring this technology to life. (Disney, in fact, has an impressive technology research wing of its own that is closely associated with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.) According to a report on a 2010 patent filing by the company, the smart cake works through the combination of a light-projection setup and coordinated sensors, with the former ostensibly being capable of detecting and reacting to things like the cake being cut. No mention of those features in Disney’s blog, but perhaps it’s coming in the Smart Wedding Cake 2.0?

Of course the semi-bitter icing on top of this smart cake is that the wedding package it comes with is being offered at a starting price of $12,000. Since you were going to pay that to get the Seven Dwarfs to be ushers on your big day, anyhow, we can’t imagine this is too big of a deal, however.

Meanwhile, we’ll be waiting for Disney’s delectable gadget to be available in, say, a bachelor party-type variant. Until that’s available, however, we still think this new wedding celebration technology takes the cake.

Interested? Find someone to marry and visit the Disney Weddings site to reserve your date today.

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