And the Gigabyt3 dad of the year award goes to... space enthusiast and backyard science geek: Luke Heissenbuhler.
Last year we watched in awe as the team from BBC One's Bang Goes The Theory used a helium balloon and wooden payload to send an action figure on a vertical accent out of the world's atmosphere, whilst recording the journey onboard via three video cameras.

This time around, a family have constructed a similar setup but with a single HD camera. As you can expect, the resulting footage is breathtaking. After ascending a whopping 100,000 feet, the balloon bursts (as planned) and hurtles back to earth at speeds reaching a blurry 150mph, before landing safely in a tree thanks to the capsule's tiny parachute. Read on for the most spectacular images, in High Definition.

Google are leaving the digital world rather confused today with the viral-isation of their latest ad for 'Search with my location', fittingly entitled 'Pizza'.

The excruciatingly irritating 10-minute long video sees the (presently unknown) character cycle through a series of random backdrops, whilst attempting to search for pizza with his voice using the Google iOS app. The baffling absurdity of already finding local results 18 seconds in, before wasting a further 10 minutes of our lives is only exacerbated by the fact he's using an iPhone 4 as opposed to one of Google's heavily pushed Android handsets.

Excluding a Chrome speed test ad or two, Google hasn't exactly been a player to dabble in viral marketing. At least now we know why. Read on for the full video...

Just over a week after The Last Exorcism's Chatroulette campaign received mainstream media coverage, YouTube is showing what it can do to turn heads with it's latest interactive takeover ad.

We don't want to give it away before you get to see this awesome video, but 'A hunter shoots a bear' takes over the top half of the web page and literally pulls the featured product out from it's residing ad, to change the course of the video in the coolest and most interactive way we've ever seen!

The product in question is actually Tipp-Ex. You know, that white fluid you use to 'white and rewrite' your sloppy pen habits. Although this may seem as unsuspecting-an-advertiser as Old Spice initially did to the YouTube generation, the way in which the product is integrated is just as clever.
(Read on for CNBC's discussion with entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk regarding Chatroulette and viral marketing.)