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Motus is a unique digital wireless musical instrument that converts movement to sound. The device pairs with software that processes data from a number of different sensors that can be mapped to specific instruments, behaviors, and sounds. The Motus can be used on its own or attached to a traditional instrument to add sounds or […]

This past September and October, photographer Markus Killi captured absolutely breathtaking footage of the astonishing colors of the befamed Northern Lights as seen from the mountains of Ylläs, Lapland, Finland. Killi also put together a beautiful time-lapse of the Aurora Borealis and set it to a soundtrack of Low Horizon by Kai Engel. via Boing […]

In episode 24 of the very funny video series “You Suck at Cooking“, the deadpan host demonstrated his very simple recipe for cold brew coffee, hilariously killing time while he waited for the mixture to macerate. The coldest, brewest, coffeest, coffee that's every been coffeed. YSAC, episode 24https://t.co/6qIwH37oIB pic.twitter.com/3ii7C1fQWn — You Suck at Cooking (@Yousuckatcookin) […]

Lehigh Pizza in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has created a Pay it Forward Pizza program through which customers can buy a slice of pizza for someone in need. Customers pay $2 and are given a post-it note they can stick somewhere in the restaurant and include a note to the recipient. The post-it can then be redeemed […]

Think Geek has put an amusing modern retro spin on the most well know tradition of Chanukah with an 8-bit styled battery powered LED menorah that makes it easy to light each night’s light with the simple push of a button. t has LED lights inside the EVA foam candles, each of which flickers on […]

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created “Star Wars – Amputations,” a fantastic supercut video of Star Wars characters getting their limbs sliced and shot off by lightsabers, blasters, and more.

Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot, whose custom work we have written about in the past, is back with a new collection of old thrift store paintings that he has added pop culture movie characters to. Prints of Dave‘s custom paintings are available to purchase online from Etsy. images via Dave Pollot submitted via Laughing […]

The dancing Matt Harding of “Where the Hell is Matt” fame has created a new project called “Where the Heck is Matt?“. The project is two-fold, the first part involves users submitting a dancing video to cast votes as to where Harding should travel next. Hold a sign with your location written on it. Keep […]

Creatives at the Dayton, Ohio-based Nucleus CoShare, Indigo Life Media, and Cincinnati-based Focus Peak Media recently teamed up to represent the growing city of Dayton in their fun new music video remix of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ catchy song “Downtown.” Their remix of “Downtown” is available to download in MP3 format on SoundCloud. 2 months, […]

On a recent episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert amusingly stepped in to perform a simple kitty trick when the camera-shy felines of Acro-Cats got a touch of stage fright. Shyness aside, the Chicago-based Acro-Cats rescues adoptable cats, trains them and then seeks out forever homes for each kitty. The group is currently […]

67-year old artist Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent the last 37 years sketching and chronicling the amazing, if not sometimes elusive, underground mosaic art of the New York City subway system and has no plans of stopping anytime soon. In his self-published book, “Silver Connections” Coppola talks about the many hidden treasures of Manhattan Island […]

Ken Burns and his team at the Akron, Ohio-based open source hardware company, TinyCircuits, have created a retro tiny playable game cabinet that they appropriately dubbed the Tiny Arcade. The awesome little functioning arcade fits in the palm of your hands and allows you to “relive the golden age of video games”. The team at […]

The Loud Mini is a compact bicycle horn designed to sound exactly like a car horn to keep cyclists safe. The first iteration of the design, the Loud Classic, was launched through a successful Kickstarter campaign, so the designers have returned to the platform to fund their new model. Backers can claim branded stickers and […]

Youtuber Eric Stran has created a compilation video of classic Star Wars toy commercials from 1977. They placed the Kenner toy commercials in the same order as the scenes from the original film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. via Geek Tyrant

Conan O’Brien and his assistant Sona Movsesian visit a marketplace in Armenia while filming a special episode of Conan in the country. Movsesian translates for O’Brien as he clowns around with vendors, buys apricots, and even tries “Armenian Viagra.”

Kit is a new online product recommendation community inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog. Users create lists of products called “kits” around a common theme like travel, music, or kitchen gadgets and recommend them with links to where they are available. Other users can then discuss the products in the comments of each individual item. […]

British inventor Colin Furze recently built an amazing underground apocalyptic bunker in his backyard that he filled with plenty of gizmos, gadgets, survival items, and entertainment. Colin also shared the four-part build process of his impressive bunker on YouTube.

LEGO has commissioned French advertising firm Brand Station to create specially made pair of slippers with extra padding to protect feet from painfully stepping on LEGO bricks. Brand Station made 1,500 pairs that will be given away at random to customers who fill out a Christmas wish list on the LEGO France website. photos via Piwee […]

Movie characters swing their lightsaber around while watching the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer in a new comedy short by Funny or Die. They feature scenes from movies like American Pie, There’s Something About Mary, and more. Here is the original trailer for reference:

When a young boy in Paris voice his concerns to Le Petit Journal reporter Yann Barthes about having to leave their home because of the bad guys who are really, really mean, his father stepped in to assure his son that they would not have to move. The father then said that France was their […]

WorldWideInterweb has created “Movie Hunger Games”, a ravenous supercut of people eating food in movies, set to the classic “Weird Al” Yankovic song “Eat It”.

La Tour des Cedres is a planned high-rise “vertical forest” building in Lausanne, Switzerland that will house human residents and more than 100 trees. The design by architect Stefano Boeri which uses a similar concept of tree integration as his Bosco Verticale building in Milan, Italy. The project is a collaboration between Studio Laura Gatti and BuroHappold Engineering and will […]

When Joseph Romeo‘s wife surprised him with a pair of EnChroma glasses, he could barely contain his excitement. Once the glasses were on, Romeo, who had been colorblind for over 24 years, joyously described each and every color he was seeing around him. My wife surprised me with EnChroma glasses. Due to a rare condition […]

Smosh Games gives their honest trailer treatment to the Borderlands video game series. From the developer of some of the worst franchise reboots the world has ever known comes the reason gearbox is still allowed to make video games.

HouseholdHacker shares 10 super handy keyboard shortcuts for Mac (here’s the Windows version).

Sarah Fay and Justin Colt of gift wrapping paper start-up, Gift Couture, the artists behind both the stackable cheeseburger and steak wrapping paper, have this time turned their sights to a really yummy looking New York City pizza. The paper set inside a traditional pizza box for the perfect delivery of gifts. In order to […]

“The Good of the One” is a musical tribute to Leonard Nimoy and his character Spock by Melodysheep. The video uses various Star Trek clips where Spock and other characters discuss the notion of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few.

At Double Fine and iam8bit‘s third annual Day of the Devs event in San Francisco, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla joined Polygon to “play (and die to) the gorgeous and ridiculously difficult indie platformer video game known as Cuphead.” Studio MDHR‘s upcoming game, which is heavily inspired by classic 1930s cartoons, is currently scheduled to release […]

“Relive all the parts your nostalgia goggles keep you from admitting were kinda dumb.” Screen Junkies has created an honest movie trailer for George Lucas‘ classic 1977 film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. They take a jab at the special effects added into later prints of the film, slip in a “that’s what […]

The Chromatic: LED Color Spectrum Clock by ThinkGeek uses 60 individual LED lights to create a colorful and unique display. The clock uses six different animations for displaying the time and can be mounted on a wall or placed on a table with the built-in stand. images via ThinkGeek

Embarrassed by the idea of using a selfie stick, a young man in Japan named Mansun invented a pair of extra-long “selfie arms.” The arms themselves were created from modified selfie sticks, and Mansun detailed his build process including an early rough sketch of the idea in a post on the Japanese site Omocoro. photos via […]

ThinkGeek has released a Minecraft Redstone Torch USB Wall Charger that provides a dim, eerie light and helps juice up your USB devices. It is currently available to purchase at ThinkGeek. ThinkGeek’s Minecraft Redstone Torch USB Wall Charger also is a potentially endless power source which you can use to power your own personal mechanisms, […]

Bill Murray and friends get snowed in at the Carlyle Hotel in the new trailer to the Netflix holiday special A Very Murray Christmas. Murray is in good company, as he is joined by Amy Poehler, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Michael Cera, and many more celebrity guests. The special will be released on Netflix on December 4, 2015.

The UK-based gift store The School of Life has created “Emotional Baggage“, a clever line of travel and tote gear that informs the world that there’s a lot more in that bag, suitcase and/or pouch than meets the eye. We claim we’re not lacking self-confidence, it’s just that other people are full of themselves. We […]

The very talented and very creative musician Rob Scallon responded to a challenge that was put forth for him to create a heavy metal song using only one fret on his guitar to which he successfully rose, using “the 4th fret and a LOT of bends.” Finally the 4th fret gets the respect it deserves!https://t.co/Kq3wR6ASZS […]

The Jamstik by Zivix is a bluetooth enabled compact digital guitar that pairs with a smartphone app and included software for easy interactive learning. The Jamstik has real strings that don’t require tuning, appropriately sized frets for easy knowledge transfer to acoustic and/or electric guitars and infrared light technology to assist with practicing. Apply vibrato, […]

F is for Family is a new Netflix animated series starring and created by comedian Bill Burr. Burr stars as a frustrated father raising a family in the 1970s. The series also stars Laura Dern, Justin Long, and Sam Rockwell. All episodes of the series will be released on December 18, 2015.

“The 80s” by g1MisterBo is an impressive mashup of the colorful and often bizarre commercials that were aired during the highly consumer-driven decade. The video was then set to the very befitting teenage anthem of “I Ran” by A Flock of Seagulls. Totally tubular dude. via Digg

Wired had a blast building a Star Wars LEGO Millennium Falcon and then smashing all 1,329 LEGO bricks in slow motion by dropping the legendary spacecraft on the makeshift desert surface of Jakku, a planet that will be featured in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens film.

A group of cats managed to outwit the tight security at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, making an on-camera appearance in the reception area.

In his latest video, the talented German artist Stefan Pabst created a beautiful optically illusive 3-dimensional portrait of the Eiffel Tower as a heartfelt tribute to the victims of the tragic events that took place in Paris this past weekend.

Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler act out a frustrating video conference call in real life with participants losing their connection, experiencing audio issues, and freezing. The video is a follow-up to “A Conference Call in Real Life” and was sponsored by the Zoom video conferencing service.

ThinkGeek has released an officially-licensed Ewok knit hooded scarf that comes complete with cute furry ears. The Star Wars-themed scarf is currently available for purchase at ThinkGeek. Wrap yourself in a Star Wars Ewok Knit Hooded Scarf both to stay warm and to express your Star Wars fandom in the most kawaii way possible. The […]

Nvidia has released a thrilling new video for the Nvidia Shield, an Android television box that is able to stream video and full PC games from the cloud at 4K resolution. Professional skydiver Jeff Provenzano stars in Nvidia’s new commercial and sits back on a couch in a mobile living room to play video games […]

Star Wars has released a new television spot for J. J. Abrams‘ upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, that features footage of Kylo Ren setting out to finish what Darth Vader started and both Finn and Rey putting up a good fight. The Force Awakens is currently set to blast its way into theaters […]

Baron the German Shepherd helps his little human named Zander get ready for bed every night, each taking turns with their own designated roles. Baron tucks Zander in. Zander reads to Baron for a bit. They then give each other good night kisses before Baron turns off the light. Nighty-night. At the end of his […]

An incredibly talented musician named Jim of Friday Night Lullaby amazingly recreated all 43 tracks of the classic Yes song “Roundabout” in which which he played every single instrument, including vocals. More recently, Jim recreated “Drowned” by The Who and “Almost Cut My Hair” by CSNY. via reddit

The wonderful lemon beagle duo of Maymo and his little sister Penny became slightly confound when they heard a voice coming out of the awaiting pizza box. Ever suspicious, Maymo held back while Penny took a tentative sniff at the pizza who wanted to party. Once the voice got louder, Maymo launched into protective mode […]

In the recent Ted-Ed lesson “What Would Happen If You Didn’t Sleep” featuring research by Claudia Aguirre and animated by Josephine Mark, the narrator explains what happens to the human body the longer it goes without sleep. This isn’t just a minor inconvenience. Staying awake can cause serious bodily harm. When we lose sleep, learning, […]

An adorable West Highland White Terrier named Christy turned circles in excitement as she waited for her human to open the sliding glass door that stood between her and her beloved pool. Once the door was opened, the little dog wasted no time and landed in the water with a splash. Although, a bit of […]