Jedi squirrels, Robotic polar bear, Steve Jobs Kid and the week’s other geekiest videos

Dramatic Amazon Kindle Fire unboxing and a long fall for an Apple iPad make the cut, too

By Alpha Doggs on Thu, 11/17/11 - 8:25am.

It's hard to beat the combination of animals and bleeding-edge technology, but that's what some of this week's hottest Internet videos have captured.

One Star Wars freak entertained himself with the squirrels overrunning his backyard by dropping a tiny light sabre on the grass and letting the squirrels do the rest:

Not sure whether this is cuddly or creepy, but this robotic polar bear out of Japan is actually designed to serve a purpose: to fight snoring and sleep apnea:

This 6th grade boy from Los Angeles wowed during a recent TED talk about his admiration for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his fascination with computer. Thomas Suarez has started up an iPhone app dev club at school and has formed his own company to boot. Good to see the pipeline for possible Apple exec successors is being primed.

Another Steve Jobs fan honored him in a different way: Painting a portrait of him in front of a live audience at an arts and music festival in Kentucky.

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