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Joshua Slice has created an adorable animated short about a cute little spider named Lucas. The tiny arachnid announced that he has too many eyeballs to look around with. He then ran off to his spiderweb. The spider was voiced by Slice’s nephew, also named Lucas. This is an animation test of a character I’ve...

Concerned about the growing problem of “Noodle Harassment“, Nissin, the Japanese company known for their Cup Noodles brand, has created the Otohiko, a noise canceling noodle fork that connects with a proprietary smartphone app that plays specific music whenever the sound of slurping is detected. This unique utensil can be pre-ordered through the company website...

Former MythBusters co-host Jamie Hyneman and his team are currently in the process of creating the seventh generation of their Vortrex virtual reality shoes. Hyneman is currently raising funds on IndiGoGo, which will aid the team in building a prototype that works exactly like they intended. We want to create electric shoes for VR gaming....

While on his Makerspace Tour, a very neighborly Adam Savage of Tested didn’t have to go far past his own backyard to get a comprehensive tour of the makerspace NIMBY. NIMBY is an enormous 60,000 square foot shared industrial art space in Oakland, California featuring studios, storage and shops (some inside of shipping containers) that...

A very sweet but seemingly picky homeless cat refused to eat the food that shelter volunteers provided in front of them, but instead preferred to take a “doggie bag” with her. Curious to see what was going on, one of the volunteers followed the cat and to their surprise, a little ginger kitten came running...

In a random, non-sponsored episode of Amazing Places, host Tom Scott visited the San Francisco headquarters of Cloudflare, a reverse proxy company that improves website performance and security. Upon entering the office, Scott encountered a beautiful wall of colorful lava lamps. While pretty to look at, these lamps are actually used to generate cryptographic entropy...

An adorable but demanding little orange kitten named Daisy is very loved by her humans. So much in fact, that the tiny feline refuses to stop meowing unless she is picked up, played with or snuggled. If none of these things are happening at any one time, little Daisy will certainly have something to say...

“Moodles” is a brilliant animation by filmmaker Ari Winkel in which animated human figures that are frozen in place, suddently unravel into shapeless strands of spaghetti. Each vignette is of a different color in order to represent various moods, fears anxieties and emotions such as stress, exhaustion and panic, which are often the only things...

ThinkGeek is featuring a plush Feisty Pets Christmas Bear, who goes by the name Ebenezer Claws, that quickly changes from nice to naughty when squeezed. Ebenezer Claws understands. A holiday Feisty Pet, this adorable teddy bear wears a little scarf and a Santa hat that reads “Naughty/Nice.” And he’s definitely on both lists. You see,...

On the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the kids and a demogorgon from Stranger Things united with the cast of the 1980s sitcom, Perfect Strangers, for an epic “Perfect Stranger Things” mashup. A Mashup of the Opening of Perfect Strangers and the Stranger Things Eerie Theme SongStranger Things Reimagined as a 1980s SitcomWhat the...

Braziliandanny created an amusing video where they used the new Animoji feature of the iPhone X to recreate popular movie scenes. They featured scenes from Pulp Fiction, A Few Good Men, and Star Wars: A New Hope. iPhone X Users Make Animals Sing in Hilarious Karaoke Videos Using the New Animoji FeatureRick and Morty Claymation...

Davie504, the incredible bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, played an impressive continuous solo on 25 different basses. The instruments ranged from very traditional at various price points to rather esoteric, including a triple neck bass, a 15-string bass and an incredible 24-string behemoth that he’s sure to bring back soon....

At the end of 2016, Larry Smith, the creator of Six Word Memoirs and friend of Laughing Squid, partnered with the ABC television show Fresh Off the Boat to put out a call for six word stories about how a nation of immigrants came to the United States. The call received well over one million...

In a fascinating essay, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter looks into the specific origins of time travel, when the genre was first developed and how it made its way into in popular culture through the advent of utopian fiction as a basic narrative of cause and effect. Human beings have...

While promoting his new film Thor: Ragnarok, the wonderfully affable Jeff Goldblum sat down with Wee Claire of the BBC Scotland show The Social to answer a few Scottish-themed questions about the end of the world. Claire asks Jeff about his survival skills (since Thor: Ragnarok is all about the end of the world). She...

While on a walk with his human in Stonehaven, Scotland, a very clever dog named Bailey came upon a sign featuring a yummy sandwich. Bailey must have thought he hit the jackpot with a giant sandwich all to himself. After giving a few sniffs, however, a confused Bailey couldn’t figure out how to get it...

Toymaker Kevin Holmes of 4-Mation created an handmade zoetrope that features 3D printed green fish with yellow fins and big teeth endlessly dining upon other fish while spinning. This and another zoetrope of the company’s design featuring frogs ceaselessly jumping upon lily pads, were made from a modular 3D kit of original design, which will...

Philadelphia artist and teacher Andrew DeGraff has released Cinemaps, his new book filled to the brim with incredibly detailed illustrated maps of thirty-five popular movies. It features maps and the charted routes of major characters from beloved films like The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, and The Breakfast Club. The hardcover and Kindle edition...

A post shared by Quimera twofacedcat (@gataquimera) on Sep 9, 2016 at 12:24pm PDT A beautiful longhaired tortoiseshell cat quite appropriately named Quimera has a unique chimeral face that is divided almost perfectly in half. Quimera’s adorable little visage sports black fur and a blue eye on one side and orange fur and a gold...

To celebrate the second season of Stranger Things being released on Netflix, guitarist Eric Calderone (a.k.a. “331Erock“) performed a heavy metal cover of the song, “Kids,” from season one of Stranger Things and the original Ghostbusters theme song. A post shared by Eric Calderone (@331erock) on Nov 3, 2017 at 5:56pm PDT A Heavy Metal...

In a simultaneously heartbreaking and inspirational episode of “Binging With Babish“, host Andrew Rea revealed his normally hidden face to talk about Garmt van Soest, a devoted fan and good friend who passed away on October 28, 2017 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in his native Utrecht. Garmt van Soest was quite a known figure...

For his two-part VFXcool series, Captain Disillusion explores how the diverse visual effects were made in the Back to the Future trilogy. Captain Disillusion teamed up with London YouTuber Ami Yamato to demonstrate how the moving split screen shots were accomplished in the films. How the Mandela Effect Causes People to Share False Memories and...

In fascinating behind-the-scenes footage from the excellent BBC Earth series Blue Planet II, marine researchers got into their submarine and dove deep into the water in order to determine what happened to the body of a deceased whale. Once they reached the seabed, they found a frenzy of enormous sharks who were fighting for possession...

District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp of Oats Studios is back to “test the waters” with Praetoria, their mysterious new sci-fi short film about a troubled General Krisch who is decked out in futuristic armor and wielding an intimidating sword. The short teaser features Krisch and his crew taking on an intergalactic mission to...

For his six-part web series, How to Learn Anything, Stephen Robinson of 52 Skillz spent three months learning how to do the splits and building a life-size remote control Jeep. For his stunt, he had to do the splits while flipping a remote control Jeep over in a field. Tiny Tortoise Scurries After Erratic Remote...

And then we proceeded to waste half our day. #animojikaraoke #iphonex #queen #bohemianrapsody #carriedaway pic.twitter.com/4TBBg6qQKS — Mia Harrison (@ManxomeMia) November 4, 2017 During the Apple Event in September 2017, the audience looked on interest and amusement when Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi made animal faces and sounds while showing of the...

Musician and comedian Mike Phirman humorously turned video of a long stack of parking restriction signs in Culver City, California into a classic Star Wars opening crawl. Star Wars Intro Creator, A Website That Lets You Write Your Own Star Wars Style Opening CrawlStarRSS, A Creative RSS Feed Styled After the Iconic ‘Star Wars’ Opening...

Father and son team Dan and Lincoln Markham of What’s Inside cut open the newly released iPhone X to find out what all is inside of the animoji making machine. Cutting Open a Big Mouth Billy Bass Singing Fish to Find Out What’s InsideiPhone 7 Plus TeardowniFixit Teardowns of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c

On the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, host Larry David got back into his role as Bernie Sanders for an amusing “The Price Is Right Celebrity Edition” sketch. The cameo-filled sketch featured Alec Baldwin as Tony Bennett and Miley Cyrus appearing as Chris Hemsworth‘s (Alex Moffat) teammate, alongside his real life brother Liam Hemsworth....

This lady dropped her hat, and Houston came in clutch to get it back up to her #earnedhistory pic.twitter.com/1thxzO7B6i — enokez (@AlanEnokian) November 3, 2017 Alan Enokian posted a video on Twitter of Astros fans helping out a fellow fan at the official World Series parade in downtown Houston. A woman accidentally dropped her hat...

Colorado artisan Randy Rollheiser has created an absolutely gorgeous line of wall hanging shelves that are built directly into the hollowed out bodies of recycled acoustic guitars, guitar cases and even recycled violins. All of these items are handmade and available through the aRRTstudios Etsy store. I believe my shop offers some truly unique items...

A Laurel, Montana homeowner was surprised to see a giant flock of birds suddenly and inexplicably descending upon his lawn. Luckily, he kept his wits about himself to not only record the event, but to do so horizontally. The birds left as quickly as the arrived, rolling off the lawn in gorgeous waves. I saw...

Robert Bobo, a motivate and inspired contrabassoon player is designing and building an original “Subcontrabassoon” – a unique instrument of his own invention. Similar to the subcontrabass saxophone, the subcontrabass tuba and the Tubax, Bobo is creating his instrument to play at full octave range lower than his existing instrument. In choosing the low range...

Feeling a bit peckish, a rather cautious Simon went to the kitchen to make himself a ham sandwich carefully looking around for any unexpected surprises. As he was preparing his food, Simon’s Cat pressed himself against the kitchen window to warn Simon he only had a limited amount of time before the hungry cat was...

In July, 2017, French street artist Mantra created an absolutely gorgeous mural of hyper-realistic butterfly specimen case onto the side of a classic building in Thionville France, calling it “Yasuni’s Imago“, which named for the illustration upon which the mural was based. In September 2017, the artist took part in Festival Asalto (International Urban Art...

In 2016, writer/director Joshua Moore made “ODDBALL“, a wonderful award-winning documentary about Stephen Parr, the brilliant and legendary proprietor of Oddball Films, a San Francisco archival mainstay, and friend to Laughing Squid. This wonderful short film captures Parr’s incredible knowledge of films, the enormity of his archive, his quiet manner, and his absolute love of...

Common Sense Media has put together a rather amusing series of PSA videos that encourage families to put away their phones at mealtime. Comedian Will Ferrell stars as a device addicted dad who, through a series of humorous vignettes, finds new reasons to pay more attention to his phone than to his family. Will Ferrell...

The ever insightful design house Kurzgesagt took another look at the subject of aging, this time focusing on the specific physiology that causes humans to age and how scientists are looking into various ways of minimizing aging and warding off diseases such as skin cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis by removing dying senescent cells...

DUST presents Macabre, a haunting animated sci-fi short film created in 2015 by Take It Easy animators Jerónimo Rocha and João Miguel Real. The short follows K, a man who goes on a very bizarre journey after swerving to miss an animal and crashing his car into a tree. Isolated, Animated Sci-Fi Short About a...

To celebrate the second season of Stranger Things being released on Netflix, Creative Mammals and Bare Knuckles Creative teamed up to make an animated retelling of the first season. via reddit, DesignTAXI LEGO Stop-Motion Animated Remake of ‘Stranger Things’ Season OneSeasons Three and Four of AMC’s Television Series ‘The Walking Dead’ Retold as an 8-Bit...

In the wonderfully animated short film “A Subway Story” by filmmaker Eugene Kolb tells the romantic story of how he and his partner Clara met while riding the train as strangers in 2011 and fell for each other instantly. Though they didn’t know each other’s names, they managed to connect through Clara’s friend, who stayed...

Whisper is a creepy horror short film, directed by Julian Terry and starring Michelle Khare, where an Amazon Echo plays the monster. Sorry Alexa, you will now be turned off at night. A post shared by Julian Terry (@julianmovies) on Oct 24, 2017 at 1:57pm PDT A post shared by Julian Terry (@julianmovies) on Oct...

While going for a walk on a lovely day, a really beautiful German shepherd who was lumbering along off-leash, turned around several times to make sure his human was still walking behind him. All was good until the man suddenly disappeared causing the confused dog to retrace his steps until he got the familiar scent...

HD1080ide posted a video featuring 10 minutes of highlights from the Hannover Messe 2017 technology exhibition in Hannover, Germany. The robots are shown engaging in lightsaber duels, lifting vehicles, organizing groceries on a shelf, and serving beverages at a bar. via reddit, Technabob Laundroid, A Laundry Folding Robot Built by PanasonicHitch, An Animated Cookbook Celebrating...

Australian comedy duo and drive time radio hosts Hamish & Andy put three people into total isolation to see who could hit a buzzer most accurately at the one hour mark. It’s easy to vibe out 1 second without a clock, but 1 hour is a little more tricky… I Had Cancer, A Social Network...

A post shared by BLOODHOUND SSC (@bloodhound_ssc) on Oct 28, 2017 at 1:17am PDT Last month, the Bloodhound supersonic car ran a series of public “slow speed” trials for the first time at the Cornwall Airport Newquay in Cornwall, UK. Driver and fighter pilot Andy Green was able to get the incredibly fast vehicle up...

Bulldoozer21 has created a colorful LEGO set based on the beloved educational children’s television series, Sesame Street. Once the set reaches the 10,000 supporters needed on LEGO Ideas it can be turned into an official LEGO product. images via bulldoozer21 submitted via Laughing Squid Tips LEGO to Release a Kwik-E-Mart and Minifig Set Based on...

Los Angeles writer and director Max Lanman stepped up to help his girlfriend, Carrie, sell her 1996 Honda Accord by creating a professional looking car commercial. Carrie’s car, which is available to purchase on eBay, is for “people who have life figured out, but just need a way to get somewhere.” via reddit Owner of...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Jennifer Lawrence presented the 7th annual YouTube challenge where parents were asked to film themselves telling their kids that they ate all of their Halloween candy. Here’s Kimmel and Channing Tatum telling their children that they scarfed down all of their Halloween sweets. Parents Telling Their Kids They Ate All...

Just before the second season premiere of Stranger Things, musician Nathan Mills performed a hauntingly beautiful medley of the soundtrack of the first season of the series, which he adapted for classical guitar. Stranger Things classical (fingerstyle) soundtrack guitar cover medley to ring in Stranger Things Season 2. I think Will was feelin my guitar...