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This week in Crave: The quadrillion dollar edition

This week, we joined a "Gangnam Style" flash mob, repelled water with our bodies, and voted for a video game hero for president.

Leslie Katz Former Culture Editor
Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably playing online word games, tending to her garden or referring to herself in the third person.
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  • Third place film critic, 2021 LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
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Too busy being grateful your last phone bill didn't tally to $15 quadrillion to keep up with Crave this week? We've got lots more reasons for you to be grateful right here.

- What do you get when you cross a Sony Aibo with a Samsonite? A Hop suitcase, that's what!

That's some masterful calligraphy, Mr. Calligraphy Robot. Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET

- "MacGyver robot" uses objects in its environment (and doesn't even have mullet).

- Nor does this calligraphy robot, which can perfectly mimic expert techniques.

- Sunday only at Best buy: $100 off Samsung's Galaxy S3.

- Spider/wasp showdown from 100 million years ago fossilized in amber.

- Forget Obama and Romney: Vote for a video game president!

- Hydrophobic hijinks: Walk through rain and don't get wet.

- Mysterious shiny Mars object identified (sorry, it's not your lost earring).

- Photo time capsule to last "billions of years" in space (but not quadrillions).

Humanity's 'last pictures' in space disc

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- Low Latency ponders the sad, wimpy half-life of decaying DNA.

- Gotten your "Gangnam Style" fix yet today? You're welcome.

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