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Did you blink during the Super Bowl commercial breaks? Too bad if you did, because it means you may have missed the anemic number of gadget or tech-related commercials worth talking about tomorrow at the water cooler. But! Megan Fox!

Megan Fox is an obvious choice, for obvious reasons (if she’s your thing): She had a Motoblur, and we’re a gadget blog! See? Obvious. Anyway, tweeting from a tub on her new phone, she pondered what would happen if she sent a picture of her bathing out to the world. Hijinks ensued, people were hurt, and even a gay couple somehow got distracted by the fox that is Megan Fox:

And such is the power of Fox that there were scenes that didn’t make the final cut.

Then there was Beyonce, fresh off her Grammy performance, performing again for Vizio. Surrounded by Internet memes and celebrities, Twitter and what appeared to be an army of automobile assembly line robots (hopefully not ones from Toyota), she sang and sold that company’s Via/Internet Apps technology. Think Internet on your HDTV, not because I say so or because that’s exactly what it is, but because that’s the message Vizio assaulted viewers with during the 60-second clip:

Tough love was the story for Intel’s Jeffrey the Robot. The commercial was supposedly for Intel’s Core processor line, but I know the truth: Robot uprising. It 20 years’ time we can all look back at this commercial, when poor Jeffrey was snubbed For The Last Time by his human overlords:

Lastly, there’s one we actually covered yesterday. Google. Its poignant ad about a search-happy boy in love with a French girl aired yesterday, on the Internet, which is probably fitting. We’ll revisit it again here if you missed it tonight:

Sigh.

Personally, for me the ads were a bit stale this year. Even the Bud Light beer ads, which have made me laugh out loud on occasion in years past, felt a little tired. Betty White was a standout though, and there were back-to-back ads depicting grown men in their underwear. Possibly a first there. Also a first: Seeing a two-timing baby talk about eTrade while his “milk-a-holic” girl on the side blew up his shit over a webcam.

The one Bud Light ad I will give props to, however, was their Autotune bit. It’s a stretch including here on Gizmodo, but we have a history with that app (iPhone, anyone?), and we’ll take an opportunity here to thank Budweiser for hopefully killing the tech off for good with this Super Bowl ad:

OK, I admit it, I smiled a bit watching that a second time. Guilty.

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The T1i’s not even a year old, and Canon’s knocking it down: The Rebel T2i pulls from the 7D, delivering 18 megapixels and legit 1080p video (24, 25 or 30fps) for $900.

The T2i pulls from the higher-end 7D almost the same way the T1i pulled from the 50D, though it has its own unique sensor that simply borrows the gapless microlens tech from the 7D, which was supposedly why it could cram 18MP onto an APS-C-sized chip with noise the size of boulders. The main thing you lose is that you only get a 4-channel readout with this sensor, vs. the 7D’s 8-channel. It shoots at 18.1MP, with an ISO range of 100-6400, and extended up to 12,800 with a 9-point AF (only the center point is cross-type though) and the 7D’s IFCL 63-layer dual-zone metering system, but adapted for the 9 AF points.

The 1080p video isn’t gimped like the T1i, either, with fully select framerates (30, 24 or 25fps) and manual exposure (+/- 5 stops), plus the codec’s H.264. Sound’s mono, but you can jack in a stereo mic. Also, there’s a new “movie crop” mode that effectively zooms in 7x by only using the center part of the sensor, though you only get standard def video out of it.

The interface, ergonomics and controls and more like the 7D’s as well, with a dedicated movie button and quick info screen, though you can’t customize the controls quite as extensively. The body’s not quite as durable, swapping metal for polycarbonite (one of the things the extra $1000 for the 7D gets you). The screen sounds impressive: 1.2-million dots should pop out of the 3-inch display. Lastly, for memory you’ve got your choice of SDHC of SDXC.

The Rebel’s getting shuffled a bit: The T1i is sliding down to be the new mid-entry-level, while the XSi is going away, and the XS sticks around as the bottom of the barrel DSLR.

At $899 for the kit with a pretty standard 18-55mm lens, or $799 body only, this, people, is the new entry-level camera to get. (At least on paper.)

Check out Nicki Minaj getting her Freddy Kruger on:

Looking good!

By the way, did you know there is a new “Nightmare on Elm Street” coming in April? I wonder if Nicki is involved? Sure is timely that she do a move like this. Here is the trailer with the new Freddie.

SOULJA BOY GOT THE YUNG BERG CHAIN!

Damn, I have to call some of my people from Detroit so I can get the chain. Yung Berg may need to merk something to get any cred back! This is the worst!

PLIES VS TRICK DADDY?

There is a club in Miami called King of Diamond, right? Well, I am hearing that Plies and Trick Daddy crossed paths at the club and it wasn’t pretty. You may or may not remember, but Trick and Plies been squabbin’ for several years now. Not sure if somebody caught it on tape or if one of them caught a beat down, but that’s what’s going on. Let me know if you know something.

ILLSEED’S QUICKIES

You probably know this already, but Lil Wayne shot about 4 music videos this weekend. Some of those can be seen in our Flicks section.

I also heard that on Friday, Cash Money Records rapper 2 Pistols was apprehended for about 6 hours on Friday for some reason or another. Nothing came out of it, from what I understand.

There is a Smurf movie coming out? Neato!

BLAH!