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The Giacometti Arm with Balloon Body is a super light 1.2kg 20 meter robot arm built from helium-filled inflatable segments connected by artificial muscles. The arm has a camera mounted at its end, which can be maneuvered for potential use in search and inspection applications. It was developed by the team at the Suzumori Endo […]

In November 2016, an Chinese farmer in Tonggu County came across an unusual sight when he checked in on his herd of goats and saw that they were entertaining a tiny guest. The guest, an orphaned baby monkey, had adopted particular goat as his new mother, clinging tightly to her back as she foraged during […]

In an episode of Today I Found Out, Simon Whistler explains the reasons drive through ATMs still use braille. The primary reason is that they are required by law, despite objections by the American Bankers Association, but there are also a number of situations where a person with visual impairments could be using the machines. […]

Great Big Story, in partnership with the Weather Channel, visited with artist Gavin Munro, the visionary artist who farms furniture by coaxing and teaching willow shoots to grow as such, producing chairs and tables directly from the ground. We patiently and carefully graft shoots together. bending them into the shapes required, and eliminating the need […]

Real Life Lore explores what the British Empire would look like if it were reunited today by comparing the current social and economic situations in the empire’s former colonies to where they were in 1921 at the height of the empire’s reach. The British Empire was the largest Empire to have ever existed in our […]

International publisher Taschen has announced the release of National Geographic Infographics, a stunning pictorial history of the magazines’s pioneering infographics. Along with photography and journalism, the use of infographics has always been one of the three pillars that National Geographic has used throughout its 128-year history to provide fascinating content to its readers. This is […]

Give Back Box is a charity that helps people donate clothes and other household items to Goodwill for free using their online shopping boxes. The service encourages people to help others and also reduces the waste from the boxes themselves. They have partnered with Amazon and other online retailers to encourage even more online shoppers […]

San Francisco creative director Danielle Baskin has created Drone Sweaters, timely and stylish custom-tailored clothing for cold drones during the frigid winter months. To acquire one of her beautiful sweaters, fill out the contact form on the main page of the Drone Sweaters website and set up a time to go to their “studio in […]

Kristian Williams aka KaptainKristian created a beautiful tribute to the iconic rhyming storyteller Dr. Seuss with a skillful tetrameric rhyme of his own. There’s a structure to language we all learn when we’re young a flow to the words that could almost be sung Something most of us learned from the great of Dr. Seuss […]

A photo posted by Gemma Correll (@gemmacorrell) on Dec 8, 2016 at 12:08pm PST Seasons Greetings by Gemma Correll Related Laughing Squid PostsCartoonist Gemma Correll Illustrates Winter Hazards From the Mundane to the Unexpected‘Ghost Fashions’, An Amusing Guide to What the Most Stylish Spirits Will Be WearingBad Girl Scout Cookies

The Backyard Scientist Kevin Kohler tests how styrofoam towers react to a red hot cannon ball and molten copper. The towers were constructed from panels of styrofoam insulation that ignite almost instantly when they come into contact with the heated metals. Related Laughing Squid PostsMelting a Colorful Tower of Crayons With a Red Hot Ball […]

JPCMHD has created a compilation of their picks for the best Japanese commercials released in 2016. Related Laughing Squid PostsSome of the Best Japanese TV Commercials (2015)Student Chefs Prepare an Enormous Sushi Roll for the 2016 Japanese Food Festival in Los AngelesHow the Rebels Saved Christmas, A Cute Duracell Star Wars Commercial Set in a […]

ThinkGeek is featuring an officially licensed Star Wars Wicket Backpack Buddy, a fuzzy backpack for storing your goods and carrying around your favorite little Ewok friend. All we had to do was give it a cracker and shoot a few Imperial Stormtroopers. It turns out that Wicket can sniff out soldiers, make accurate bird calls, […]

Bellevue, Washington designer Dave Nunez of Rabbit Engineering has created cool mini 3D printed models of classic video game consoles, computers, and historic machines. The entire collection of models are available to purchase from his Etsy store. images via Rabbit Engineering via Technabob Related Laughing Squid PostsHow ‘Oldschool’ Computer and Video Game Graphics Worked in […]

The European Space Agency has rendered the Rosetta space probe‘s historic journey around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in a 3D simulation that highlights important moments in the trip. Rosetta successfully orbited the comet and launched the Philae lander on November 12, 2014, the first human-made object successfully soft-landed on the surface of a comet. The animation begins […]

Filmmakers JCL Aragón and Adrián Gutiérrez of Glass Distortion have created a wonderful video series featuring side-by-side comparisons of movie scenes with their original storyboard drawings. They take a look at scenes from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight, No Country for Old Men, and a commercial for Chanel No. 5. via […]

LEMMiNO explains some of the potential positive and negative outcomes of humans developing advanced artificial intelligence. Although artificial intelligence is currently being used in a variety of ways, people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned about the unchecked advancement of super-intelligent computers. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Potential of Emotional Reading Technology Becoming Available […]

Video editor Robert Jones has created a nostalgic supercut tribute to epic dance scenes in movies from the 1990s. The supercut is set to the track “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Supercut Tribute to Some of the Best Dance Scenes in 1980s MoviesA Supercut of 92 Dance Scenes in Movies‘The Chase’, […]

Film editor Vashi Nedomansky has created an interesting video essay that explores 46 shots from Rogue One, shared in the film’s promotional material, that never actually made it into the final version of the movie. Apparently 40% of the film was reshot which leads one to believe that changes in the tone, structure and story […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, New York filmmaker Bobby Burns and Dustin McLean worked together to create a fake movie trailer that reimagines Elf as a disturbing thriller film. Thought your holiday family dinner was a nightmare? Wait until you see your favorite elf in this creepy version of the holiday comedy. At least […]

Host Jimmy Fallon sat down with the comedy duo, Rhett & Link, to play a few rounds of their amusing Good Mythical Morning game “Will It Tea?” on The Tonight Show. The three amigos tried dipping tea bags filled with taco meat, deodorant, goat meat, and ghost peppers into their cups of water and then […]

Jack Black was inserted into Aldo Jones‘s incredibly weird re-edit of the first official trailer for Passengers. Fans of Aldo can help support his future work on Patreon. Here is the original trailer for comparison. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Incredibly Weird Re-Edit of the Justice League TrailerAn Incredibly Bizarre Re-Edit of the Batman v Superman: […]

George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou), the absolutely brilliant singer, songwriter and founding member of the British pop duo Wham! has tragically passed away on Christmas Day 2016, peacefully in his home. He was only 53 years old. His publicist has asked that privacy be granted at this time for Michael’s grieving family. It is with […]

A teaser trailer has been released for Series 10 of Doctor Who, featuring Peter Capaldi returning as the 12th Doctor with his new companion Bill, played by Pearl Mackie. Series 10 debuts in April 2017. Related Laughing Squid PostsNew ‘Doctor Who’ Teaser Trailer Asks Whether the Doctor Is a Good ManA Doctor Who Series 1 […]

Warner Bros. has released an “Eye of Sauron Yule Log” that continually watches you for 5 hours. He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. Sauron is keeping his eye on you this holiday season with this five hour Yule Log. via Bleeding Cool, Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of AWESOME! Related Laughing […]

20th Century Fox has released a terrifying first trailer for Alien: Covenant. Directed by Ridley Scott, it’s a follow-up to his 2012 film Prometheus and the latest film in the series of the Alien prequels. Alien: Covenant is scheduled for release on May 19, 2017. Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: […]

A photo posted by Twisteddoodles (@twisteddoodles) on Dec 24, 2016 at 4:22pm PST TwistedDoodles takes a look at how a Christmas tree experiences Christmas. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow To Protect a Christmas Tree From Curious CatsChristmas Tree Ornaments You Can Make at HomeChampion Driver Chris Forsberg Sets Record for the Fastest Time to ‘Undecorate’ a […]

Wrong Hands has a few handy suggestions for creative and affordable last minute Christmas gifts. Related Laughing Squid PostsLast-Minute Christmas Gift Ideas For PhotographersGift Alarm, A Motion Detecting Alarm For Presents by Archie McPheeA Chaos Christmas Carol with Chicken John and Friends

Chris Poole, the beloved human to the feline duo of Cole and Marmalade documented his touching visit to a local cat shelter as a way to remind people that the responsibility of caring for an animal doesn’t necessarily make for a good holiday present and can’t be returned when one grows bored. All they want […]

The 2016 holiday episode of Alisa Stern‘s wonderful stop-motion puppet series “Doctor Puppet” features a very clever “Advent TARDIS”, whose doors open one-by-one to reveal each of the twelve iterations of Doctor Who along with his most identifying quirk. In the background an aptly updated version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” accompanies the action. […]

The folks at the reptile conservation group Snake Buddies have brilliantly edited Jürgen Otto‘s original footage of peacock spiders so that it shows the colorful arachnids fully embracing their Christmas spirit in a lavish show of goodwill. No matter how big you are (or how many legs you have) we wish you all a Merry […]

On a lazy Christmassy kind of morning, YouTuber Gus Johnson and his family broke out into a spontaneous version of “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” in perfect pitch with the home smoke detector while still in their pajamas. Unfortunately, the alarm was sounding for a very good reason. While their house is consumed in flames, the […]

On a nice day, Maymo the Lemon Beagle decided that he and his little sister Penny needed some fresh air, so he packed her up in a shopping cart that he pushed around and about the town, stopping at several locations along the way. All that exercise gave the two dogs a mighty appetite, so […]

A photo posted by Apollo Peak™ (@apollopeak) on Dec 7, 2016 at 7:05am PST Apollo Creek in Denver, Colorado, the same company behind the clever line of wines created for the sophisticated feline palate, has unveiled a new product line more suited to a dog’s sensibility. The MalBark, ZinfanTail and CharDOGnay are all made with […]

For the launch of their new Thermal Guys channel, Finnish couple Lauri and Anni Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel subjected their unsuspecting cats to the heat-seeking lenses of their FLIR T660 thermal camera to amazing results. First and best thermal camera cat video in the internet! A trailer for the Thermal Guys channel, a […]

San Francisco artist Constantine Zlatev has brilliantly transformed a Winchester Model 94 lever-action repeating rifle into an automated vending machine that dispenses shells filled with candy when a coin is inserted. The price of the candy is linked to a weapons stock index updated in real time. Zlatev created this amazing installation as a distinctive […]

A very excited Simon’s Cat created a handy checklist to ensure that he was completely prepared for Christmas 2016. Of course, things don’t always go as planned, but with a little help (and hindrance) from Simon’s Kitten, the organized feline was able to tick off all the boxes with time to spare. Watch Simon’s Cat […]

With a combination of luck and skill, driver Noah Forman was lucky enough to hit 240 consecutive green lights driving through Manhattan in the early morning hours of December 16, 2016. Forman had previously set the record at 100 consecutive lights after someone claimed the title with just 55. Forman’s ride was sped up in […]

The hardworking staff at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region in Colorado Springs, Colorado let out a great big victory cheer while standing in the empty kennels of the previously available dogs who have since been adopted. While this achievement is only short-lived, as more adoptable dogs will be filling those spaces again, […]

Cracked‘s spokesman Roger Horton is back with an Honest Ad for hotels, or as Roger calls them, “buildings with rooms you can own temporary to do whatever you want within for money.” The video is the latest in the Honest Ads series that reveals the truth about things like the lottery, airlines, and energy drinks. […]

Returning from his paternity leave, new dad Hank Green fires off 41 dad jokes in 4 minutes. Related Laughing Squid Posts53 Terrible Jokes Told in 4 Minutes by Hank GreenHank Green Quickly Tells 54 More Jokes in Four MinutesThe Net Neutrality Debate Summed Up in Three Minutes

While on location at the Steve Kroschel Wilderness Center in Haines, Alaska, adventurer Coyote Peterson spent some time with an energetic and affectionate orphaned baby deer named Blitzen, who took Peterson for a brisk walk munched on some yummy old man’s beard before devouring a giant bottle of milk in seconds. Once satiated, a worn-out […]

A photo posted by Scrappy (@seniorscrappy) on Oct 7, 2016 at 12:37pm PDT In 1997, a sweet little black kitten with a wart on his nose came home with his new humans David and Mary who named him named Scrappy, due to his love of picking fights with other felines. Scrappy lived a very happy […]

Hydraulic Press Channel has taken things to the next level by heating steel to 2200º F until it is red hot and using it with their hydraulic press to burn and crush various objects. They also documented everything using a thermal camera for their new YouTube channel Thermal Guys. Related Laughing Squid Posts1990 Ford Fiesta’s […]

Norman Chan of Tested takes a behind the scenes look at the live-action Futurama fan film Fan-O-Rama. We go behind the scenes of Fan-O-Rama, the ambitious Futurama fan film that brings the beloved cartoon series to real life. Chatting with director Dan Lanigan and actors/producers Kody Frederick and Katie Lanigan, we learn how their team […]

Trent Reznor has just released a music video for the single “Burning Bright (Field on Fire)” from the new Nine Inch Nails 5 song EP “Not The Actual Events”, which is now available on iTunes and Amazon. New Nine Inch Nails! info: https://t.co/omnPAextCF pic.twitter.com/CCSjlv2MjC — Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) December 16, 2016 Related Laughing Squid PostsNew […]

Swedish Dynamite helps spread joy this holiday season by blowing up a Christmas tree with dynamite. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Swedish Dynamite Channel Gleefully Blows Up Two Computers and a MonitorOskar the Blind Kitten Wrestles With a Christmas Tree & Its DecorationsA Portable Toilet Blown Up With Swedish Dynamite

More Than Just Parks, a wonderful project that seeks to bring awareness to the beauty of the U.S. National Parks System, has posted absolutely breathtaking 8K HD footage that captures exquisite colors of the fall season and a stunning northern lights display found within the vast boundaries Voyageurs National Park in northernmost Minnesota. This film […]

On a video game episode of Wisecrack, host Jared Bauer answers some of the interesting, philosophical questions about Fallout 4. Last year, Jared explored the philosophy of the entire Fallout video game series. Welcome to this Wisecrack Edition on The Philosophy of Fallout 4, where we explore many of the political themes from previous installments, […]

On a Star Wars episode of the AWE Me show DIY Cosplay Shop, cosplayer and costume designer Elizabeth Rage demonstrates how to make your own version of the “Slave Leia” costume worn by Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. NEW SLAVE LEIA TUTORIAL! ??? My Slave Leia episode of DIY […]