The microwave that can tweet, text and play YouTube videos

Most people want their microwave to do just a couple of things. One, cook your food; two, tell you the time; three, defrost things - but even then that's not a dealbreaker if it doesn't.

The "μWave" - which you pronounce "micro-wave", "mu-wave", or "u-wave" - offers all that and more, with the added "apps" of Twitter and YouTube installed too.

Created by super-students Will Whitney, Kevin Conley, Ben Shyong, Varun Sampath and Teddy Zhang, it took only 40 hours to build, producing a household appliance that'll cleverly play a YouTube clip of the exact same length that you want your food cooked. Genius!

Plus, if you want it to, it'll text you when your food is done - that is, if you don't fancy watching any dogs on skateboards or the like whilst your food spins round and round. In other words, we'll take four.

"Brinicle" ice finger of death

Hats off to BBC cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson for capturing this once-in-a-lifetime shot of an "Icicle Of Death" for David Attenborough's Frozen Planet nature documentary series.

As you'll find out from David's soothing voiceover, the underwater tornado - of a sort - is formed by the expanding ice above, which gives off extremely concentrated salt.

This salt, being heavier than water, goes to the bottom of the ocean, but does so in a way that somehow scares the dickens out of us.

And in case you were wondering, the footage was taken off Little Razorback Island, which is near Antarctica's Ross Archipelago. So next time you're down that way, check it out! Or, thinking about it, maybe not...