WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at some of the internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.

Apple-i-fy your ads

Don’t say that Apple advertising doesn’t work on you. We simply don’t believe that.

But can the winning advertising formula work for other products – like biros, Post-Its or french fries? Aspiring art director Bryan Evans investigates…

(see more examples here)

Image courtesy of Applefied Ads

IDEAbuilder

Fancy building your home online?

Uploaded by IDEAbuilderHomes

Kissinger

It’s being touted as a way to help long-distance relationships, but is the Kissinger by Lovotics comforting or creepy?

The odd-looking device lets users send interactive kisses to a loved-one over the internet. So, if you fancy locking lips with a plastic blob that evokes mental images of Henry Kissinger you are – weirdly – in luck.

Uploaded by hmnasmn

Facebook reunites family

This is bound to melt your heart a little,  no matter how old and gnarled it may be: a father has located his ex-wife and long-lost son after 21 years apart through Facebook.

US airman Don Gibson and British woman Chrissie, who had a son named Craig, lost contact with one another after he moved back to the States in the 1980s. Although both Craig and Don searched for years for each other – with Don even hiring a private investigator – they had no luck… until Facbook arrived.

Now there’s even talk of Don and Chrissie remarrying. Aww.

Picture by: Martin Keene/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Google’s acquisition of Sparrow

BoingBoing has kindly put together a video to prepare users for Google’s acquistion of the popular minimalist email app Sparrow.

(We don’t recommend watching it if you work for – or like – Google.)

Uploaded by boingboingvideo