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Remember back in the old days, when men were men, dogs ran free, and computers were the size of small countries? It was a day when viruses weren’t malicious, rather, they delivered cherry popsicles, unicorns, and nuclear joy-beams. Well, now you can return to a simple instance of laughter and love thanks to the Newton Virus and related dongle, created by the design collective Troika. Instead of gnashing your files, spamming your address book, or giving you “The Finger” repeatedly, that virus engages just once, and makes

a playful desktop mishap that will undoubtedly inspire the victim to hug the nearest person. Though the virus was coded way back in 2005, it’s now being shown at the MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition. Watch it all go down, literally, in the video after the break.

[Thanks, H&M]

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Original post by Joshua Topolsky