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To celebrate Halloween in style, web designer Canton Becker and his family crafted a clever handmade slot machine that featured hand made drawings and sound effects. Each child was given a turn at the machine, depositing their own candy to play for as long as it took to win back a good return on the...

When the iPhone X was announced in September 2017 as “one more thing“, the company introduced their new “Face ID” facial recognition software, which would serve as a super secure password for unlocking the phone. Some very clever vloggers decided to put that notion to the test with various masks, costumes and facial hair, with...

Megastar Robert Downey Jr and his lovely wife Susan Downey invited Architectural Digest to come in and tour their spectacular converted windmill house in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island. During the tour, the lively couple pointed out their favorite art, their newly decorated bathroom, their favorite places in the house, their...

A post shared by Lingvistov (@lingvistov) on Oct 26, 2017 at 9:36am PDT In 2015 we wrote about an adorable illustrated series about the wonders of sleep by Landysh Akhmetzyanova., in-house artist for the language learning company Lingvistov. Since that time, the talented illustrator has created a wonderful series of cartoons that perfectly explain the...

French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu created “HZ Hollywood Zombies,” a special effects filled video where he takes scenes from movies and turns the Hollywood actors and actresses into undead zombies. A meteor strikes Hollywood! All the actors and actresses are contaminated and become… Zombies! Which Movie Star would you like to be eaten by? submitted via...

A post shared by The Swim Reaper (@iamtheswimreaper) on Feb 10, 2017 at 8:32pm PST Water Safety New Zealand partnered with the ACC and launched a campaign aimed at young people to help spread water safety awareness and cut down on their very high drowning toll. The campaign emerged on Instagram and followed the unsafe...

In a two-part video, Henry Reich of MinutePhysics host explains how a single set of data analysis can have contradictory results per Simpson’s Paradox, the principles behind this fallacy and the context required to get to the accurate results. Reich also provides understandable whiteboard examples of the paradox in action, specifically including its effect upon...

Looper takes a look at the easter eggs, hidden references, and things missed in season two of the popular Netflix television series, Stranger Things. Easter Eggs in Season One of Stranger Things1980s References, Homages, and Easter Eggs Featured in Season One of Stranger ThingsDaredevil Season 2 Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos and Hidden References

LEGO is releasing one of their largest sets to date, a 5,923 piece Creator Expert model kit of the breathtaking Taj Mahal in India. This is a rerelease of their 2008 set, which is currently discontinued. The new kit will be available to purchase on November 27th, 2017 (Cyber Monday) from the LEGO Shop. Build...

Using footage from the Internet Archive’s 35mm stock footage collection, YouTuber WDTVLIVE42 has put together an amazing “dash cam” and rumble seat views of the streets of lower Manhattan taken from a moving car in 1945. Both the frontward and backward facing parts of the film captures daily city life during the beginning of the...

Beirut pranksters Alex Stifler and Jad Khawandi of HowAboutBeirut dressed up as mannequins and had a good time surprising unsuspecting people who walked by them on the sidewalk. via reddit Store Attaches Creepy Headless Mannequins to Drones and Flies Them by Office Windows to Sell Clothes to Busy ExecsThe Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier:...

In April 2017, A curious Shiba Inu attempted to make friends with a hedgehog put directly in front of him. Unfortunately, after getting pricked by quills with just a few simple sniffs, the confused dog was left a little more cautious and unsure what to do with the little spiny mammal. Since that time, the...

During his 2017 UK tour, Jay Foreman, a very talented musical comedian asked members of his audience to call out their favorite Beatles songs so he could demonstrate his unique ability to sing almost any song with one syllable out-of-sync. While some songs proved a little more difficult than others, in doing so, Foreman hilariously...

A post shared by FixNation.org (@fixnation) on Oct 23, 2017 at 10:16pm PDT On October 19, 2017, some of Los Angeles’ most renowned home designers who are members of the of the group “Architects for Animals” held their annual fundraising event. The theme for 2017 was “Giving Shelter“, for which they each designed highly imaginative...

Disney and Lucasfilm released a new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the upcoming second film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy written and directed by Rian Johnson. The dark trailer, titled “Awake,” features Luke Skywalker entering the Millennium Falcon and ends with Luke telling Rey, “This is not going to go the way...

Photographer and snowboarder Stian Aadland used a selfie stick and a GoPro camera to capture footage of himself drinking coffee while doing an awesome back flip in Svalbard, Norway. Aadland’s video was a winning selection for the GoPro Awards, which accepts submissions and rewards creators for their best content shot with a GoPro camera. Drummer...

Brighton, UK animator Nick Murray Willis humorously reimagined a collection of classic movie quotes, each with their own twist. From chef Arnie losing his cool to Mr Miyagi working at a beauty salon, here are some classic movie quotes reimagined. via Neatorama Classic Viral YouTube Videos Reimagined in the Style of Big-Budget Hollywood Movie TrailersWhat...

Jimmy Kimmel and guest host Channing Tatum both stepped up to the plate this year on Jimmy Kimmel Live! by telling their own children that they ate all of their Halloween candy. Tatum’s daughter Everly was not happy at all with her Dad. Kimmel’s little girl Jane, on the other hand, took the news surprising...

Great Big Story visited with Wim Kruiswijk, a genial man who has enjoyed his walks on the beach near his home in Zandvoort, Netherlands for over 30 years. While on one of these walks, Kruiswijk found a fabled message in a bottle to which he promptly responded. Since that time, this affable beachcomber has found,...

ThinkGeek has created a scientifically precise set of Erlenmeyer Flask Martini Glasses that feature the same conical shape and long neck of the original version, but tapers out into a wide mouthed martini glass. Additionally, each glass has a different color of fluid at the bottom of the glass to easily identify which is yours....

Kal Spelletich, a San Francisco robotics artist and longtime friend of Laughing Squid and Noisebridge co-founder Mitch Altman combined their talents to create an incredible interactive robot installation that was live-streamed in April 2017 and required the participation of audience members to work. The two large split brained robots, named Romulus and Remus, were controlled...

In 1994, a scandal arose in the most unlikely of places when Olympic-hopeful ice skater Nancy Kerrigan was smacked by a baton across her legs and was taken out of commission for a little while. The story became very popular in the court of public opinion, who overwhelmingly blamed a likely suspect, Tonya Harding another...

A post shared by Casey Elise Christopher (@imogenthekitten) on Oct 14, 2017 at 7:39am PDT Los Angeles photographer Casey Elise, who previously captured the quiet elegance of adoptable cats who are blind or have limited eyesight in hopes of finding them a new home, has put together another striking photo series in which she posed...

While appearing on the Tonight Show and at host Jimmy Fallon‘s suggestion, actress Millie Bobby Brown quite eloquently rapped a comprehensive recap of the first season of Stranger Things from her character Eleven’s point of view. Earlier in the show, Brown talked about shopping for Halloween costumes, kissing on camera and the Kardashians. http:// Millie...

During the 1999 induction ceremony into the Television Hall of Fame, a very dignified Fred Rogers suddenly leaped up onto the stage when he saw his longtime friend Jeff Erlanger in the lights. The two had met in 1981, when Erlanger came onto the set of Mister Rogers Neighborhood to talk about his having to...

4,626 individuals gathered at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan last month to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Waldo (Wally), the beloved character from British author and illustrator Martin Handford popular Where’s Waldo? children’s books. London College Students Set Guinness World Record...

A post shared by ?????? ????????? (@ecokorolev) on Feb 10, 2017 at 11:52am PST Czech artist Veronika Richterová creates absolutely wonderful sculptures that are crafted out of recycled PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) drinking bottles. Amongst the themes of Richterová’s sculptures are of animals, insects, cacti, oceans, flowers and more decorative pieces such as chandeliers. When I...

The environmental friendly folks at GoSun have created the GoSun Go, a portable solar stove that uses the power of the sun to cook food. The amazing stove, which is still able to cook on a cold or cloudy day, always stays cool to the touch and is small enough to fit into a backpack....

A post shared by Velocity Motorcars LLC (@velocitymotorcars) on Sep 12, 2017 at 8:06pm PDT Velocity Motorcars brought to life a custom 1967 VW Bus that’s heavily inspired by Doc Brown‘s iconic DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future. The beautiful vehicle features a working flux capacitor, a custom dashboard filled with time traveling...

Noting that the iconic Glass Cube of the 5th Avenue Apple Store is under repair, the comedy collective Improv Everywhere decided to create a similar buying experience by turning a glass subway elevator at 23rd Street into a fake Apple store. There they planted troupe members as hopeful buyers waiting in line for the “first...

Sony has announced that they are releasing a new and improved edition of their discontinued robotic dog AIBO. The robot pup will be able to respond to voice commands, wag its tail, do tricks, and convey emotions through its two OLED eyes. Sony is accepting pre-orders from their store in Japan and the AIBO pet...

Online novelty retailer Archie McPhee has released a wonderful Librarian Action Figure, which portrays the bibliosoph as a superhero who promotes literacy as a super power. The company’s Director of Awesome, David Wahl explained that the figure was based on “America’s Librarian” Nancy Pearl. Although the figure has a detachable cape, the reality is that...

The Stranger Things cast of Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), and Sadie Sink (Maxine “Max” Mayfield) appeared live on Good Morning America to chat about the second season of their hit Netflix series. Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin) Chats With Jimmy Kimmel About the Second Season of Stranger ThingsHow Stranger...

On a special Halloween episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, guest host Dave Grohl (dressed as David Letterman) and Kristen Bell (dressed as Thomas Magnum from Magnum, P.I.) teamed up to perform a mashup of the songs “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” from Frozen and Metallica‘s “Enter Sandman.” Here are some more clips from...

“Kill the Lights” by Darren Pearson is an amazing long exposure animated film short that captures stop-motion animated light paintings of some really happy skeletons playing music, dancing, skating running, setting themselves on fire and partying really hard, as they move around an ever-changing selection of nighttime landscapes. Skeletons come to light at night in...

The Eleven Bleeding Nose Candle by Firebox has the appearance of being a ceramic face of a sweet little girl, but light a red candle behind that face and she becomes the enigmatic Eleven from Stranger Things, whose incredible psionic powers cause her nose to bleed. The Eleven Bleeding Nose Candle is easily the strangest...

While on their regular routes, drivers for UPS get to know their human customers by name. It’s also not unusual for the driver to encounter a friendly dog or two who also become part of their daily life. UPS Dogs on Facebook and on UPS Dogs on Instagram are adorable places for driver and customers...

The short film “The Best Gravediggers in the World” by MEL Films takes a deep look into the relatively unknown, but incredibly fascinating world of competitive grave digging. The annual event, which takes place in Trencín, Slovakia and is sponsored by funeral homes all over Europe, is a not chance only for these workers to...

Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment released a new trailer at PlayStation‘s Paris Games Week 2017 for The Last of Us Part II, their upcoming post-apocalyptic survival video game, a sequel to their popular 2013 game The Last of Us. The violent trailer features new characters getting threatened with knives while strung up by a...

On this Halloween day, weatherman Alex Deakin apparently lost his head just before going on air. Luckily he found it and held it football-style under his arm while delivering the week’s forecast from the Met Office – the National Weather Service for the United Kingdom. Here's a peek behind the scenes of our #Halloween forecast,...

On July 2, 2017, a single drone was spotted flying in the direct flight path of Gatwick Airport in London, England. Not wanting to take any chances, all incoming traffic was put into holding patterns. Some flights with fuel concerns were diverted to another airport, while the arriving flights stacked up. The drone disappeared and...

During episode one of Beyond Stranger Things, a Netflix series enlightening viewers on the creation of Stranger Things, host Jim Rash shared an unseen collection of audition tapes for the cast of kids. via HYPEBAE, DesignTAXI David Harbour (Jim Hopper) of Stranger Things Originally Wanted to Play the Role of ElevenWinona Ryder Talks About How...

Two brave little boys in Cobram, Victoria held a long strip of paper as a man repeatedly cut it in half with an Australian stockwhip. As the strip of paper got shorter and shorter, the two kids stayed calm and were amazed by the man’s control. Daniel Clowes: Mister Wonderful & The $40,000 ManMissing: Little...

To celebrate the autumn season, caretakers at the Oregon Zoo set out giant gourds of squash (including pumpkins) inside the elephant area and invited the beautiful pachyderms to come out and squish the squash, which they gleefully performed without hesitation to great audience acclaim. Once the gourds were sufficiently gored, the elephants enjoyed the yummy...

Kevin Rose has released Oak, a convenient iOS app that seeks to teach those with busy lives, the basic principles of meditation and mindfulness. Unlike other similar apps, Oak encourages users to learn introductory forms and movements, incorporating the practice daily until they feel confident enough to practice on their own. Progress is shown through...

Musician Aaron Grooves performs both the “Overworld” and “Underworld” theme songs from Super Mario Bros. on a marimba with four mallets. via reddit Super Mario Bros. Theme by GameboysSwedish Man Plays the ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Video Game Theme Song Using Finger SnapsMariachi Band Performs the ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Theme Song at a Wedding

A post shared by Simon Davies (@simon.a.davies) on Oct 27, 2017 at 1:44pm PDT Pastry chef Simon Davies of the wonderfully unconventional Chicago tasting restaurant Alinea put a gorgeously transparent spin on the traditionally autumnal treat of pumpkin pie. The resulting Crystal Clear Pumpkin Pie is a amazingly surreal sight to behold. While not giving...

A post shared by justmops (@justmops) on Oct 30, 2017 at 12:09pm PDT A beautiful Hungarian puli named Keki and her beloved human created a very clever Halloween costume that put her adorable dreadlocks to use in a most convenient way. Riding along a Covington, Kentucky sidewalk in a bright yellow utility bucket on their...

Artist Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks built a spooky LEGO chocolate machine to help him hand out candy to the kids on Halloween. With the use of a remote control, Allemann can choose to either close the skeleton hand or make the giant spider leap forward at the candy. A post shared by Jason Allemann...

Korean speedcuber SeungBeom Cho set a new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in 4.59 seconds at ChicaGhosts 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Patrick Ponce set the previous record last month with 4.69 seconds. via reddit Teenager Sets New World Record Solving a Rubik’s Cube In 4.69 SecondsRubik’s Cube Champion Sets New World Record Solving...