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The Build-On Brick Mug is a fun peg and hole surface cup designed for drinking delicious coffee and building something original on the side of the mug. The black, blue, red, and white mugs are compatible with LEGO bricks and available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store for $19.99 (50% off retail price). A […]

Eclectic Method has created a magical musical remix using only sounds from the Harry Potter film series. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Classic 1939 Musical Fantasy Film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Remixed by Eclectic Method and BeatNiKA Robotic Remix Using Only Sounds From the Transformers Movies by Eclectic MethodThe ‘Interstellar’ Cast Raps About the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, […]

Filmmaker Devin Graham (a.k.a. “Devin Super Tramp“) and his team got together and engaged in a dangerous “King of the Island” battle with inflatable zorb balls. The group of thrillseekers received plenty of scrapes, bumps, and bruises while bouncing each other off the side of the red rock island. A post shared by # Devin […]

YouTube has announced the new service YouTube TV that will allow users to watch live television from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, and many other channels on any screen or device. For $35 per month, users will get six accounts that each come with customized recommendations and access to an unlimited cloud DVR. The service […]

20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for Alien: Covenant, the upcoming sci-fi horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan. The trailer features the colony ship crew exploring a new remote planet and being violently attacked by a deadly Xenomorph. Alien: Covenant, the sixth installment in the Alien film series […]

Marvel premiered their fun new trailer on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy and the 15th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The trailer gives us a look at the team of space misfits stepping up once again to save the galaxy […]

The NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer encounters a cosmic jellyfish during their American Samoa expedition. The jelly (hydromedusa) is in a family of hydromedusae called Rhopalonematidae, which is known for the canals running vertically on the inside of the bell, gonads attached to these canals, and sometimes having two sets of tentacles. Scientists have seen this […]

RESET is a dystopian online series by Les Productions Du Quatre Janvier, about five survivors of a devastating pandemic who emerge from their barricade into a post-apocalyptic Paris after the city’s population has been completely wiped out. United only by the fact they all survived, each person finds they need to learn who they are […]

A large robotic arm futilely tries to clean up a blood-red mess from the floor of The Guggenheim in the art installation “Can’t Help Myself” by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. As it makes large sweeping motions, the arm simply pushes the colored cellulose ether fluid around the floor, splattering more of its enclosure in […]

A couple of years ago, Erica Proctor, founder of the special needs rescue Green Dogs Unleashed and her young son Finn came home with a trio of sickly little chickens. Unfortunately, two of three didn’t pull through, but the one named Darla grew up beautiful, healthy and friendly due to Finn’s absolute devotion. While Darla […]

Adam Savage paid a visit to special effects and prop company Weta Workshop where he was given an up-close and behind-the-scenes look at some of the geisha props built for the movie Ghost in the Shell. Weta’s Creative Director Richard Taylor showed Savage the props and discussed the process of building such beautiful and elaborate […]

The upcoming Netflix film entitled OKJA is an adventure story about a little girl named Mija and her giant friend whom she protects at all costs, from the scientist and the corporation who created him. The multi-lingual film was directed by Bon Joon-ho and features such stars as Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Steven […]

A helpful dog assists a sleepy child get out of bed in the morning by stealing the kid’s blanket in a video shared by America’s Funniest Home Videos. This dog isn’t going to let you hit snooze! Related Laughing Squid PostsMan Uses Raccoon Sounds to Get His Dog Out of Bed in the MorningFunny Vine […]

A video by Ghost Robotics captures their compact and nimble Ghost Minitaur robot as it explores the outdoors by climbing, jumping, and flipping over and through obstacles. The Minitaur easily handles slopes, uneven rocky terrain, tunnels, and even ice using its four direct-drive legs. Ghost Minitaur™ is a medium-sized fast, lightweight and dynamic direct-drive legged […]

At the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, a googly-eyed wheel nicknamed Mr. Trash Wheel sits upon the water using its current to filter out debris and keep garbage from entering into the nearby Jones Falls Watershed. Mr. Trash Wheel came about in 2009, when Adam Linquist, the Director of the Healthy Harbor Initiative, partnered with […]

Jimmy Kimmel aired a funny Robert De Niro edition of Mean Tweets during the Oscars that featured Mr. De Niro reading a series of mean tweets about himself and quickly firing back at each one with a heated response of his own. Related Laughing Squid PostsCelebrities Read Mean Tweets About Themselves on Jimmy Kimmel LivePresident […]

Cracked spokesman Roger Horton stars in an Honest Ad that reveals the true lengths cereal companies use to market to children and the strange origins of breakfast cereal itself. Look, Cocoa Puffs are totally the bomb, but maybe eating the entire box in one day isn’t such a great thing. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Honest […]

Model, designer and body activist Ashley Graham wittily answered 73 random questions by Joe Sabia for Vogue. Some of the questions Sabia asked were about her daily life, how she met her husband and who her modeling idol is, all while getting ready for New York Fashion Week. Before supermodel Ashley Graham hits the runway […]

A post shared by tisha cherry ???????????? (@tishacherry) on Dec 3, 2016 at 1:42pm PST Bangkok, Thailand food artist Tisha Cherry has recreated a delicious looking series of famous paintings and well-known pop culture characters on Oreo cookies for the world to drool over. Tisha’s full collection of intricate Oreo cookie artwork is available to […]

Designer Angela Luna created the Tent Jacket as a response to the refugee crisis. As the name suggests, the inventive jacket can be easily converted into a tent to provide the wearer with temporary shelter, and comes in a small two-person size and larger family size version. Interested customers can fill out a form to […]

The wonderfully irascible Gordon Ramsay opened himself up to Twitter for Wired in order answer cooking questions that could be described in 140 characters or less. While a number of the questions came in were truly culinary, several came in that were barely related to food and for which the snarky chef had no patience. […]

The talented folks at The Blonde Swan hat boutique in Fremont, Ohio have created an out of this world Boba Fett themed bowler hat that was handmade from a variety of colored leathers. The made to order Star Wars hat is available to purchase from their Etsy shop. They also build all sorts of other […]

“A Kauri Cries” is truly a noble project that are working to save the New Zealand native kauri tree from a deadly plant pathogen known as dieback. Dieback causes the tree to weep gum from its bark in a manner similar to human tears. In order to bring awareness to this blight, the project posted […]

The interactive Japanese robot FORPHEUS (Future Omron Robotics Technology for Exploring Possibility of Harmonized aUtomation with Sinic Theoretics) was designed to teach humans to play table tennis and to improve their skills. The robot holds a Guinness World Record for being the “First Robot Table Tennis Tutor” and FORPHEUS and its creator Taku Oya were […]

A chubby harbor seal slapped at his big fat belly that sent his blubber to and fro in a wonderful rhythmic patter that could be viewed more closely through slow motion footage. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsAmazing Slow Motion Footage of Big Cats Enjoying a Yummy TreatHilarious, Yet Creepy Slow Motion Footage of a […]

Jimmy Fallon, Ed Sheeran, and The Roots joined together on The Tonight Show to play Ed’s song “Shape of You” using classroom instruments. Here is the original “Shape of You” music video for comparison. Related Laughing Squid PostsJimmy Fallon, Meghan Trainor, and The Roots Play ‘All About That Bass’ Using Classroom InstrumentsMadonna Joins Together With […]

Dark Dark Woods is a cute animated film, created by a team of third year character animation and CG students at The Animation Workshop in Denmark, about a fed up young princess named Maria who sneaks away from her stuffy castle to adventure with a forest filled with playful, creepy looking monsters. It was brought […]

Jarppi, Jarno, and HP of The Dudesons ride a log being swung around by a Ponsse Scorpion harvester to compete in a “Forest Machine Rodeo” in the first episode of their new series Meanwhile in Finland. The competition was to see who could stay on the log the longest, with the losers agreeing to public […]

An absolutely adorable giant panda cub named Qi Yi who lives at the the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding stubbornly refused to take no for an answer from her busy keeper. The keeper, who was trying to clean up her area and refresh the bamboo stores, repeatedly placed the boisterous youngster into different […]

ThinkGeek has created an officially licensed Minecraft Color Changing Potion Bottle that illuminates with the flip of a switch and magically cycles between eight different colors whenever tapped. BREWING STAND NOT REQUIRED Nice light you got there. What is that? Potion of Fire Resistance? Oh no, wait. Now it’s Healing. How did you do that? […]

Warner Bros. released the final trailer for Kong: Skull Island, an upcoming reboot of the King Kong franchise directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The thrilling trailer features a group of explorers trying to avoid death while King Kong rises and goes bananas while crushing helicopters and monsters. Kong: Skull Island is set to smash its way […]

Mondo is releasing an awesome new collection of Aliens themed ceramic tiki mugs for their ongoing series of pop culture inspired tiki mugs, titled Tee-Kis. The Blue, Hive (black), and Acid Blood (green) variants will be available to pre-order from the Mondo shop starting at 1 PM EST on February 28. They are expected to […]

Boston Dynamics has officially introduced Handle, a robot that combines wheels with legs for impressive mobility that allows it to jump, quickly moved down stairs, and go off-road. The robot can reach speeds of nine miles-per-hour and, make a four-foot vertical leap, and is shown lifting a 100-pound crate. Handle is a research robot that […]

In a fascinating episode of their Planet Earth series, Great Big Story gathered amazing footage of a relaxed troop of macaques who were delighting in the hot springs of the Jigokudani Monkey Park high within the mountains of Joshinetsu-Kogen National Park. These clever snow monkeys discovered the spa-like qualities over 50 years ago and have […]

The Dot Watch is a stylish Braille smartwatch designed to let the blind community take advantage of new technology. The watch offers features like social media notifications, directions, weather updates, and even image-to-text translations. Developers can also take advantage of the Dot’s open system to create apps for the watch and future Dot products including […]

A post shared by Rachel Sussman (@_sussman_) on Oct 27, 2015 at 8:08am PDT Photographer Rachel Sussman, author of The Oldest Living Things in the World, has taken the beautiful Japanese ceramic art of Kintsukuroi (golden repair) and applied its mending principles to cracks in sidewalks and streets, leaving each surface being more beautiful than […]

The producers of the wonderful BBC Earth and PBS animatronic wild animal series Spy in the Wild have released another fascinating video from John Nolan’s studio, where he and stitcher Val Jones are creating an animatronic Spy Otter who they hope will blend in amongst real Alaskan sea otters in a future episode. It takes […]

While shopping in a pet food store, a very clever border collie was allowed by his human to pick out his own treats. Upon reaching the register, the human deftly slipped a bill to the dog who very willingly gave it to the cashier. The cashier then put the items in a bag and handed […]

In his Things You Might Not Know series, Tom Scott visits the Swedish village of Ytterby, the only place in the world with four elements named after it. The chemical elements yttrium, terbium, erbium, and ytterbium were all discovered in mineral samples found in a mine outside the village. Yttrium, terbium, erbium and ytterbium were […]

Will Smith plays Ward, a modern Los Angeles cop in an alternate world where humans live together with orcs, elves, and fairies, in the Netflix original movie Bright. The film was directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Training Day) and combines action movie and fantasy elements. It will be released on the streaming platform in […]

Legendary prankster Joey Skaggs is organizing his 32nd Annual April Fool’s Day Parade in New York City this Thursday, April 1st. The theme for this year’s parade is “Make Russia Great Again”. Here’s the full press release issued by the New York April Fool’s Committee. The press release includes a link to a downloadable Donald […]

Puddles Pity Party performs a moving version of the 2017 Best Original Song Oscar winner “City of Stars” from the movie La La Land. The song was written by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. For comparison, here is the original version of the song performed by the film’s stars Ryan Gosling and Emma […]

Florida actress and “shapeshifter” Jessica Vill (a.k.a. “Jbunzie“) has created a makeup tutorial on how to transform yourself into Max Fleischer‘s classic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop. Boop boop be doop! A post shared by ????Jessica Vill???? (@jbunzie) on Dec 5, 2016 at 2:29pm PST via Boing Boing Related Laughing Squid PostsMakeup Tutorials on How […]

A beautiful gray tabby aptly name Photogenic Charlie loves to chirp, squeak and chatter to himself whenever he finds himself watching birds through the glass patio door. His human Derek Zimmerman decided to capture these adorable moments after much thought. Honestly I have been debating videoing this for like a year now, decided what the […]

Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome demonstrates how to make a “red rum and cherry pie” based on the iconic carpet from Stanley Kubrick‘s classic psychological horror film, The Shining. Rum cherry filling pie with a vanilla crust – my homage to one of my favorite movies of all time… A post shared by […]

Father and son team Dan and Lincoln Markham of the What’s Inside? channel sliced open Stretch Armstrong, Hasbro‘s large rubbery action figure from the 1970s and 1980s, using a utility knife to find out what was inside. After abusing the classic toy and having some fun, they found out that the elastic man was filled […]

In the second episode of a three-part miniseries, Joss Fong and Dion Lee of Vox take a deep look into the history of slow-motion and timelapse techniques in BBC Earth series Planet Earth and Planet Earth II. As in the first part of the series, Fong looks at the process both before and after digital […]

Indiana state trooper Sergeant John Perrine recorded a public service announcement for what he calls an “often forgotten, incredible safety feature” that comes standard on all cars. Perrine says when used properly, the feature can help prevent crashes and incidents of road rage. via WCMH-TV Related Laughing Squid PostsA Truck Driver Loses Their Marbles, Spilling […]

Hydraulic Press Channel founder Lauri Vuohensilta has created a new video for his other channel, Beyond the Press, where he demonstrates how to peel apples at insane speeds with various power tools. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Emoji Keyboard Cover for Apple MacBooks and Apple Wireless KeyboardsThe Return of The Power Tool Drag RacesHow to Speed […]