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CMRA is an Apple Watch band with two built-in HD cameras for video, stills, and chat. The band has a two megapixel front-facing camera for selfies and video chat, and an outward-facing eight megapixel camera for stills and video. The CMRA band can take hundreds of photos or approximately 30 minutes of video per charge. […]

The excellent Last Week Tonight segment “How Is This Still a Thing?” posed the very valid question about why Election Day in the United States always takes place on the first Tuesday of November, especially given the long-outdated reason for doing so. …but the reason actually comes from 1845 law passed for a very 1845 […]

On a sizzling episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, pro skater Tony Hawk chatted about his epic career and life while eating spicy wings live at ComplexCon in Long Beach, California. Related Laughing Squid PostsEpic Meal Time’s Harley Morenstein Talks About His Career While Eating Increasingly Spicy Hot WingsT.J. Miller Does an […]

The Ohio State University Marching Band powered up and performed a great halftime tribute to comic book superheroes during the Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers football game on Saturday, November 5th, 2016. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Ohio State Marching Band Performs Tribute To Movies During ‘Hollywood Blockbuster’ Halftime ShowThe Ohio State University Marching Band […]

GOOD Magazine and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream have put together a very amusing animation that compares the 1:32,000,000 chance of voter fraud taking place at the polls with more likely things occurring, such as getting injured by soap (1:5,198), hammock (1:349) or toothbrush (1:338), becoming a movie star (1:1,200,000) and even being elected President […]

Developer Vatsaev Aslan has created a Nyan Cat animation specifically for the Touch Bar on Apple‘s new MacBook Pro line. Aslan uploaded the code to Github so new MacBook Pro users could make full use of their Touch Bar. via Boing Boing Related Laughing Squid PostsApple Reveals New Line of Thinner and Lighter MacBook Pro […]

photo by Scott Beale Jean-Jacques Perrey, legendary sound designer, musician and pioneer of electronic pop music, passed away on November 4, 2016 due complications from lung cancer. He was 87 years old. Throughout his long career, Perrey partnered with a number of incredibly talented people including Gershon Kingsley, Robert Moog and Dana Countryman, with whom […]

A maker named Andre has created a working 3D-printed butter passing robot from the Rick and Morty episode “Something Ricked This Way Comes.” Like in the episode, the robot asks its purpose, passes the butter, and seems disappointed at its lot in life. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsHow Rick and Morty Can Help People […]

At the Jawa Timur Open 2016, Dutch speedsolver Mats Valk set a new world record for fastest time solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube with an astonishing 4.74 seconds. We previously wrote about Collin Burns’ world record of 5.253 seconds in 2015. Related Laughing Squid PostsNew World Record for Fastest Time to Solve a 3x3x3 Rubik’s […]

Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon reprised their roles as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live one last time before the presidential election in the November 5, 2016 episode’s cold open. Related Laughing Squid PostsAlec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon Will Face Off as Trump and Clinton on SNL Season PremiereAlec Baldwin and Kate […]

Mr Sunday Movies takes a look at all of the easter eggs, cameos, and hidden references found in Marvel‘s newly released superhero film, Doctor Strange. Related Laughing Squid PostsCaptain America: Civil War Easter Eggs, Cameos and Hidden ReferencesLuke Cage Easter Eggs, Cameos, and Hidden ReferencesEaster Eggs, Secret Cameos and Hidden References in Star Wars: The […]

On the last episode of Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray and Chicago Cubs players gathered together to sing “Go Cubs Go” on Weekend Update. Dana Carvey also appeared on Weekend Update as The Church Lady to weigh in on the election. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Amusing Animation Featuring the ‘Super Mario World’ Video Game Theme […]

Disney and Lucasfilm have released a new TV spot for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the upcoming Star Wars stand-alone film and first in the new Star Wars Anthology Series. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is found stepping up and urging all members of the Rebellion to work “together” to take down the Empire. Rogue […]

Brian Kane hacked a Big Mouth Billy Bass robotic singing fish so that it answers as Amazon Alexa, the voice that is used with Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot devices. The result is wonderfully creepy. Related Laughing Squid PostsAmazon Introduces Echo, A Voice-Activated Digital Assistant DeviceAmazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap, Two New Smaller […]

A maker who calls himself Mr. Volt created a retro designed working prototype of a rotary cell phone. The Arduino based phone has six functions including making calls, storing one phone number, sending a message to that phone number, an FM radio, sleep mode, and system settings. The body was 3D printed, and Volt posted […]

Dana Carvey fires off 17 celebrity micro-impressions in under two minutes during an interview on The Howard Stern Show. Carvey quickly becomes Paul McCartney visiting Mars, Sean Connery accepting a trip to Spain, and Donald Trump after causing nuclear war, among others. Related Laughing Squid PostsDana Carvey Nails Quick Celebrity Nano-Impressions of Donald Trump, Bernie […]

In the fifth episode of the TED Ed micro-series “Moments of Vision“, filmmaker Jessica Oreck uses animation to explain how the modern day sandwich was eponymously invented by John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Although it is true that Montagu was a member of British nobility, he was far less than noble in his […]

LEGO Batman (Will Arnett) fights loneliness and learns the meaning of family in the fourth trailer for The LEGO Batman Movie. It also stars Michael Cera as Robin, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, and Zach Galifianakis as the Joker. The film is a spin-off from 2014’s The LEGO Movie and will be released on February 10, […]

Stacy Vest of Sweet Hayseed’s Wearable Wonders has crafted a fun line of fabulously flamboyant, highly creative, modernized 17th-century style wigs that can be custom ordered for any occasion through the Sweet Hayseed Etsy shop. A retail line of wigs are also available for purchase online and in-store at Chicken Lays an EGG and Shrewdness […]

Award-winning performer and author Lin-Manuel Miranda announced via Twitter that his “Hamilton Mixtape” would be available for pre-order beginning today, November 4, 2016. The highly-anticipated album features a collection of songs from the wildly popular broadway show Hamilton as performed by a variety of artists including The Roots, Usher, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Jill Scott […]

Sneaky Zebra has created a new music video featuring a number of the pop culture themed cosplays at Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con 2016. The catchy song in Sneaky Zebra‘s music video is “Cali Get Down” by Radical Something. Fans of a Sneaky Zebra can help support their future work on Patreon. A photo […]

The American Museum of Natural History has put together a truly fascinating animated map that shows how the human population has grown and declined throughout all of time, citing where, when and why these changes took place. It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 […]

A photo posted by Dave Pollot Art (@davepollotart) on Jul 21, 2016 at 6:25am PDT Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot, whose work we have written about in the past, is back with a new series of old thrift store paintings that he has added pop culture characters to. Prints of Dave’s custom paintings are […]

While Dok Rak, the perceptive baby elephant, was crossing the river with his herd at at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, he was accidentally knocked over by another larger elephant and couldn’t regain his footing. Luckily the other elephants including nanny Faa Sai rushed in to save the little calf from certain […]

Hong Kong artist OOOWORKSHOP has created an amusing line of earrings that take recycled the plastic dinosaurs of childhood, cuts them in half, adds the ear wire and backs and then reunites them on either side of the ear. The effect is absolutely adorable. The earrings and other items are available through the OOOWORKSHOP Studio […]

Reggie Watts created the song “The Reggie Watts Bacon Experience” for Black Label Bacon by remixing the sounds of frying bacon. via Food Republic, Foodiggity Related Laughing Squid PostsReggie Watts A Live At Central ParkReggie Watts Improvs a “Pancakes” Song With iPhone Live on Sirius XMReggie Watts, A One Man Music Machine

Skilled puppeteer Barnaby Dixon covered his performing warrior finger puppet, named MANU, in glowing UV paint and performed a fabulous, yet spooky dance to the dubstep song “Ghost Town” by Draper. Fans of Barnaby and his puppeteer work can help support his future videos on Patreon. Related Laughing Squid PostsMANU the Warrior Finger Puppet Performs […]

Scientific magnetic thinking putty is a playful variation of silly putty that stretches, bounces, and reacts to magnets thanks to embedded magnetic particles. The putty comes with a super-strong neodymium magnet that can be used to interact with the material, or let the putty slowly engulf it over several minutes. You thought putty was just […]

A photo posted by Tse Kao (@casadekaophotography) on Aug 30, 2016 at 2:07am PDT Photographer Tse Kao and designer Elsien Gringhuis partnered together at the Wad & Design Symposium, which took place on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog, to create “Blendscapes“, a beautiful photo and fashion series featuring unique designs that merges together the local […]

The filmmakers at Corridor Digital created a live action video that follows a friendly Anki robot named Cozmo who accidentally falls into a trash can, is taken to a dangerous junkyard, and is forced to survive while surrounded by robots programmed to kill. Related Laughing Squid PostsDiego-San, A Humanoid Robot With an Unsettlingly Realistic Face […]

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jimmy Fallon play Mad Lib Theater on The Tonight Show. Cumberbatch gave a list of random words that were worked into a tense police interrogation scene acted out by the duo. During the desk interview, Fallon also asked Cumberbatch about a number of firsts in his life ahead of his first time […]

A very persistent Labrador retriever named Lucy tried her very best to come inside from the cold and into the house once her business was finished. She first tried the door handle to no avail. She tried barking, still no response. It then dawned upon the clever dog to try the doorbell. After a few […]

To celebrate that the filming of season seven has begun, video editor David Garuchava of The Garo Studios created an epic supercut tribute to the first six seasons of Game of Thrones. Related Laughing Squid PostsKing In The North, A Supercut Tribute to Jon Snow and His Epic Journey on Game of ThronesWinds of Winter, […]

International publisher Taschen has announced the release of The Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921–1968 a beautiful, limited edition photo book that tells the stories behind some of the greatest animations ever made. The book was edited by German film historian Daniel Kothenschulte and includes illustrations from Disney artists who worked at the […]

Neil Patrick Harris terrorizes the Baudelaire orphans as Count Olaf in a new teaser for the Netflix series Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Meet the star of a new Netflix series telling the story of a very handsome actor and three selfish and ungrateful orphans who refuse to give him the enormous fortune […]

Producer Felipe Haurelhuk and editor Fabrício Carvalho teamed up with Darth Blender to create a touching mashup of Wolverine‘s (Logan) cinematic journey and a cover, created by Thomas Pedersen, of Johnny Cash‘s version of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt.” They feature footage from X-Men (2000), The Wolverine (2013), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and more. Related […]

Gothamist hit the New York City subway and confronted manspreaders about the behavior of taking up too much space in their seat. We hit up some subway cars to speak with manspreaders about their manspreading, an epidemic that even the MTA has had to address in an etiquette campaign. Many manspreaders were promptly contrite; others […]

A very clever Eastern long-billed corella cockatoo named Monty very methodically solved a puzzle box sequence he hadn’t seen in over a year. The box was made handcrafted by Monty’s human tomgjj who has been training the bird with these puzzle boxes for the past couple of years with great success. It has been about […]

Filmmaker Sam Macaroni has created “Knight Rider 2016,” an amusing and modern parody of the classic Knight Rider television series that features KITT as a murderous Lamborghini and Michael Knight who is stuck in the 1980s. The parody guest stars The Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy and actor Sean Patrick Flanery. via Geeks Are Sexy […]

With the upcoming release of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon on November 18th, Dorkly‘s Tony Wilson opens the Pokédex and shares the backstories of seven new Pokémon that are really dark and disturbing. Nevermind the official art of Pikachu being eating alive by a Palossand, we have Crabrawlers who are losing their pincers in fights […]

Daring cowboy Zalin Arritola dressed in a Tyrannosaurus rex costume and rode a wild, bucking horse while at Selle Rodeo Productions‘ first annual “Spook & Swoop” Halloween rodeo event held at Hansen Arena in Laramie, Wyoming. via Boing Boing Related Laughing Squid PostsMan Wears a Tyrannosaurus Rex Costume While Riding a Horse That Kicks Soccer […]

Think Geek has a wonderful solution for Doctor Who fans who may be a bit hesitant about putting an angel atop their Christmas tree with. The TARDIS tree topper is miniature version of the Doctor’s Blue Box that allows the residents to relax and blink as much as they want. Turn your holiday into the […]

French creative house Parallel Studio has put together a fabulous animated compilation of incredibly maddening situations that have neither any fault nor any solution. Aptly entitled “Unsatisfying“, the animation brings such everyday mishaps as a soda stuck in the machine, a basketball teetering on the edge of the rim or a piece of toast landing […]

A very talented artist amazingly recreated the melting clock from the iconic Salvador Dali painting “The Persistence of Memory“, complete with foam dripping over the rim and onto the table. image by skapaneas via reddit, Twisted Sifter Related Laughing Squid PostsDetailed Instructions For Making a Cake Version of the Iconic Dali Painting ‘The Persistence of […]

“Science Bob” Pflugfelder has created a Tesla coil triggered, ethanol powered, film canister gatling gun that fires 315 canisters in about 20 seconds. The bizarre and complicated weapon was recently featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Related Laughing Squid PostsOmega Recoil, Electricity Theater With Giant Tesla CoilsJimmy Kimmel and Science Bob […]

Woody Harrelson stars in Wilson, an upcoming film based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Wilson is a strange man who suddenly learns that his ex-wife (Laura Dern) gave their daughter up for adoption 17 years earlier, and they team up to find her. Wilson will be released in theaters on March 24, 2017. […]

Netflix has animated the fascinating fan theory positing that suburban schoolteacher turned nefarious drug maker Walter White of Breaking Bad was the originator of the virus that cause the zombie outbreak in the Walking Dead. This prequel theory was first developed from famous easter eggs and intentional nods across the AMC network. What if Breaking […]

Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) hits the front lines to save the world in an exciting new trailer for the upcoming film. The movie stars Gadot along with Chris Pine and Connie Nielson. Wonder Woman will be released in theaters on June 2, 2017. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Fan Made Teaser Trailer for the 2017 Wonder […]

An incredibly talented guitarist named Joe who works at Reverb played an amazing 100 classic and modern television theme songs in chronological order over the course of ten minutes. His instrument of choice was a gorgeous green Nash JM-63, except for a couple of times when he reached for an odd mandolin or ukulele without […]

Brain.fm is a subscription based service that combines studied concepts of auditory neuroscience with computer-generated music that plays in the background and helps calm and focus the brain on the task at hand such as those related to working, studying, relaxing and even sleeping. The Laughing Squid Store is currently offering three separate subscriptions (lifetime, […]