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Daredevils Yves Rossy, Vince Reffet, and Fred Fugen of Jetman Dubai teamed up to fly in formation alongside the Armée de l’air (French Air Force) with their custom jet-powered wings. Airborne Films captured their magnificent aerial adventure, titled “Alpha Jetman,” that took place 4,000 feet up in the sky while they were doing around 160 […]

Google has introduced the Holiday Window Wonderland, an immersive online experience that offers an amazing virtual tour of some of the most iconic and elaborate holiday-themed windows of New York City. Using hundreds of photos from such luxurious shops as Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s, Barneys New York , Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale’s, Burberry, Fendi, Henri Bendel, […]

Peter Denbigh and the team at Skyler Innovations has created Watch Ya’ Mouth, a hilarious family party game where teams attempt to read and interpret phrases while hindered by mouthguards. It is available to purchase from the Watch Ya’ Mouth website, Amazon, and Firebox. Vlogger Joe Santagato and a group of his friends demonstrated how […]

In another interesting episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler shares the astronomical reason the hottest days of summer are called the “dog days” that goes all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. The earliest reference to some aspect of this expression goes all the way back to the Ancient Egyptians. They […]

A photo posted by R O H A N D A H O T R E (@rohandahotre) on Jun 27, 2016 at 7:50am PDT Rohan Sharad Dahotre, a very talented illustrator and designer in Pune, India, has created “Animal Doodles“, a clever series in which he adorned photos of individual animals in the wild with […]

In an episode of BrainCraft, Vanessa Hill interviewed Matthew Shifrin, a young man who has been blind since birth who uses LEGO to help him see the world. Shifrin uses a modified system of instructions that describe the steps in text rather than images to build his elaborate LEGO collection, and runs the site LEGO […]

BrainCraft host Vanessa Hill explains the science behind earworms – the snippets of catchy songs that repeatedly and annoyingly get stuck in one’s head. Thankfully, she also offers a simple solution for removing this mentally invasive vermin. Using principles of the Zeigarnik effect, which states that incomplete tasks are remembered far more frequently than those that […]

Seattle artist and writer Cassie Murphy (a.k.a. “KittyCassandra“) has created Westpurrld, an art print that features characters from HBO‘s popular television show, Westworld, reimagined as cats. The prints are available to purchase from her Etsy store. image via KittyCassandra via Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of AWESOME! Related Laughing Squid PostsArt Prints Featuring Characters From Popular […]

Riga, Latvia e-commerce company Scandiweb set a new Guinness World Record for constructing the world’s largest Rube Goldberg machine. The Scandiweb team planned for months and used the massive, elaborate machine to light a Christmas tree in the town of Riga. Related Laughing Squid Posts300 Step Rube Goldberg Machine Sets New World RecordThe World’s Most […]

Anthony “Buckets” Blakes of the Harlem Globetrotters made an incredible 583-Foot trick shot, the highest basketball shot ever made in North America, from the top of Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas. Related Laughing Squid PostsHarlem Globetrotter Corey ‘Thunder’ Law Sets New World Record with 109-Foot Basketball ShotIncredibly Detailed 150-Gigapixel Interactive Panorama of […]

Chris Pratt and host Jimmy Fallon played “Mad Lib Theater” on The Tonight Show. Pratt gave Fallon a list of random words that were then placed into a hilarious Christmas scene acted out by the duo. Chris got into character as Santa Claus (Papa) and Jimmy as an elf named Ding Dongs. Related Laughing Squid […]

Simon Whistler explains why boats and ships measure their speed on the water in knots and how the unit is measured in an episode of Today I Found Out. How fast you’re going while out floating on the big blue can be notoriously tricky to judge if you’re just eyeballing it. One method used to […]

In a story for Motherboard, Nicky Ashwell discusses living life with an advanced bionic hand called the Bebionic Small which uses myoelectric control. The hand uses a number of grips intended for different tasks. The variety of grips is made possible by individual motors in each of the hand’s fingers. In this episode of Humans+, […]

While in the San Francisco Bay Area, vlogger Tom Scott of “Things You Might Not Know“, visited town of Colma which is famous for its close proximity to San Francisco (approximately 10 miles) and its designation as a necropolis in which the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of one-thousand to one. And many […]

The Baudelaire orphans are having a very terrible childhood in a new trailer for the Netflix series Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. All eight episodes of the new show based on Daniel Handler‘s book series will premiere on January 13, 2017. Based on the internationally best-selling series of books by Lemony Snicket (aka […]

Filmmaker David Friedman of AARP Studios shared heartwarming footage of the iconic Dame Helen Mirren as she waxed poetically about her love of dogs while playing with an adorable pile of adoptable puppies. The dogs were brought in as a surprise for the actress during an interview and photo shoot with the magazine . Helen […]

WordPress has released their latest update, WordPress 4.7 “Vaughn”, named after jazz vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughn. The update was designed to let users more easily create and customize their WordPress site by adding new features and live non-destructive previews to the customizer. The update also introduces the new theme default Twenty Seventeen which is designed […]

Utilizing the respected research of psychologist Jonathan Cheek about the meaning of introversion, the folks at New York Magazine put together a simple animation that explains the four different types of introverts – Social, Thinking, Anxious and Restrained. Most people think they’re just introverts and extroverts but it turns out not all introverts are created […]

In 2015, 20-year old Tanner Brownlee of Greeley, Colorado became aware that the squad car that once belonged to his father, a Weld County Deputy killed in the line of duty, was being sold through auction, he started a GoFundMe page to raise money to bid on the car. Unfortunately, the bidding went far higher […]

Life Noggin explains how people with different types of blindness perceive the world. Depending on the cause and extent of the blindness, the age at which the person became blind, and other factors, a person’s perception of the world around them can vary greatly. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Visual Explanation of How Color Blind People […]

A creative human named Sam of Prefabcat crafted wonderfully eccentric “ark” for his beloved cat Dinni. The entire structure is built out of cardboard and held together with hot glue. Being that Sam loves making things out of cardboard and Dinni loves cardboard, there was no way that anything could go wrong. Cardboard is so […]

Self-taught filmmaker Simon Scheiber of Trim Tab Design has created “The Lighthouse“, a brilliant black-and-white, stop-motion animation that tells the story of a sleepy keeper who discovers that he can design a world of his own with his own hands and a bottle of ink. This wonderful piece was shot using over 14,000 photos over […]

ThinkGeek is featuring an officially licensed Fallout Pip-Boy Molded Mug based on RobCo Industries‘ legendary electronic personal information device from the Fallout video game series. When Preston is sending you on errands for the beloved Minutemen, you’re going to get thirsty. Or tired. Probably both. That’s why we turned your favorite accessory for traveling across […]

British Columbia, Canada maker and University of Victoria chemistry professor Scott McIndoe (a.k.a. “makendo“) has created a colorful 3D periodic table lamp based on French geologist Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois‘ “Telluric Spiral.” The tutorials are available to view on Instructables. The first periodic table was developed in 1862 by a French geologist called Alexandre-Émile Béguyer […]

Brave Wilderness host Coyote Peterson traded in his trademark brimmed hat for a helmet as he and his crew rode through the desert of southern Utah on Polaris RZRs provided by St George ATV Rentals and Tours to search for preserved tracks that were left by dinosaurs over a hundred million years ago. Believe it […]

During the unexpected first snowfall of the season in Montréal, QC, Canada, office worker Willem Shepherd and Th4tCanadianGuy captured the frightening sight of cars, buses and even a snow plow sliding into a crazy traffic pileup due to the unplowed street. Luckily, according to Shepherd, no one was badly hurt. The accident happened at 10am […]

Mondo has created an amazing two-sided Spider-Man slip mat for decorating your turntables. The superhero slip mat, which features “two classic forms of Spidey’s logo,” is currently available to pre-order and scheduled to ship in January 2017. via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsTen Steps to Making a Hit Superhero MovieIron Man and Spider-Man Illustrations […]

In a touching 2016 holiday ad for the Polish online store Allegro entitled “English for Beginners“, a genial older man receives a special delivery of books and other tools that will help him teach himself English. At first the man is a little nervous, but some time and random post-it notes around the house, he […]

CineFix has released a new episode of their Homemade Movies series where they do a homemade, shot for shot remake of the second trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. CineFix also created a side by side comparison and behind the scenes video. Related Laughing Squid PostsHomemade Remake of a Scene From the Battle […]

Hammacher Schlemmer has released a collection of ceramic Star Wars Steins created in the likeness of four iconic characters (R2-D2, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and Chewbacca) from the Star Wars movie series. These are the steins that impart intergalactic intrepidity to one’s imbibing. Made from high-quality ceramic and topped with pewter-hinged lids, each 32-oz. stein […]

The designers of the devious party game Werewolf have relaunched their game with an improved deck that features more cards, higher quality, and new types of villagers and werewolves. The card game is a physical version of a classic party game where friends are either werewolves or villagers, and they kill each other off to […]

Chef and filmmaker Andrew Rea spent 12 hours recreating “The World’s Greatest Sandwich” from the Adam Sandler movie Spanglish in an episode of his series Binging With Babish. The 12 hour timeframe included baking the bread used in the sandwich from scratch. Spanglish, the movie your aunt refers to as a “must-watch!”, is home to […]

Pantone Universe has created a wonderful series of glass Pantone color swatch themed Christmas ornaments. The colorful ornaments are available to purchase from the Pantone shop and Amazon. Happy Holidays from Pantone! Enjoy tree trimming or home decorating with a four-pack of Pantone collectible glass ornaments. Keep them all for the creative designer in you, […]

With help from his adorable little daughter, How to Dad creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand demonstrates how to go grocery shopping with a baby. We’ve previously written about Jordan and his helpful parenting advice. Related Laughing Squid PostsNew Zealand Father Demonstrates How to Teach a Baby to Climb a FenceNew Zealand Father Demonstrates […]

Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth installment of the live-action Transformers film series directed by Michael Bay and sequel to Transformers: Age of Extinction. The trailer features the worlds of Transformers and humans colliding and engaging in a major a war, Optimus Prime is seen going rogue and […]

Saturday Night Live introduced Fisher Price’s new “Wells for Boys“, a line of plastic wells for sensitive little boys to use to contemplate their complicated lives. The commercial parody was written by Julio Torres and Jeremy Beiler, and it features episode host Emma Stone as the boy’s understanding mother. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Remarkable Ways […]

Just a few days before Thanksgiving 2016, Lauren Haroutunian of Rocket Jump Film School and Jimmy Wong of Feast of Fiction demonstrated how to make a holiday dinner perfectly camera ready using such items as hairspray, shaving cream, super glue and tampons. In the spirit of the holiday season, we decided to talk about food […]

The Swanky is a whimsical, self-balancing ladle by Ototo that gracefully floats atop soup like a graceful swan across water. Ototo is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to bring Swanky to market. Here comes the masterpiece of your kitchen! This elegant ladle will fancy up any dinner. Floating with grace, balanced like a […]

“Digital alchemist” Fuzzy Wobble demonstrates the 90 From The 90’s Boombox, a hacked payphone that plays a selection of 90 songs from the 1990s including tracks from Sugar Ray, Chumbawumba, and Coolio. When I first started this project I suspected payphones would be hard to get, expensive, and a hassle to hack. I was wrong […]

The filmmakers at Corridor Digital brilliantly put a literal spin to the poignant lyrics of the iconic Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody“, which were acted out in a scene appropriate to the song. Mama, just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead. Mama, life had just begun, But […]

Trusted Contacts by Google is a personal safety app that lets users share their location with others, or request the location of a loved one in an emergency. Users manage their list of contacts that can view their location, and the app can even work when the phone is offline by reporting the phone’s last […]

Jimmy, filling in for Stéaviñ of EBS Tutorials, demonstrates how to pronounce “maths”, including a helpful example using it in a sentence. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow to Pronounce UranusHow To Pronounce Various File ExtensionsForvo, Word Pronunciations by Native Speakers

During a last wish boar hunting trip for a boy with terminal cancer, the group discovered that a big buck kangaroo had Greig Tonkins’ beloved dog in a deadly headlock. The 6’7″ Taronga Western Plains Zoo employee made his way towards the animals, causing the giant marsupial to become distracted and let go off the […]

A photo posted by Astronomy Picture Of The Day (@astronomypicturesdaily) on Dec 5, 2016 at 3:34am PST Astronomy Picture of the Day is featuring an incredible photo of lightning over Colorado by Joe Randall. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Amazing Composite Image Captures a Lightning Storm Against the Super Blood Moon Lunar EclipseAn Incredible Photo of […]

In 2012, we wrote about photographer Martin Usborne and his efforts to raise money through Kickstarter to fund his upcoming, unnamed “Dogs in cars” photography art book. The fundraising was successful and shortly thereafter the new book entitled “The Silence of Dogs in Cars“. Usborne used his own childhood memory to create the story. I […]

The MasterPan is a simply ingenious multi-compartment skillet that evenly cooks different components of an entire meal on a single burner. This in turn, cuts down on cooking time confusion, allows other burners to remain free and makes cleanup much simpler. The Laughing Squid Store is currently offering the MasterPan Multi-Sectional Meal Skillet 2 for […]

On a super powered episode of Discovery Channel‘s Daily Planet show Make It Real, engineer James Hobson (a.k.a. “The Hacksmith“) built an incredible working version of Batman‘s iconic grappling hook gun. Fans of The Hacksmith can help support his future work on Patreon. A video posted by James Hobson (@thehacksmith) on Dec 2, 2016 at […]

Writer Nicholas Tecosky is a very funny, but tired human to a vociferous orange cat named Italics. After a week of early wake-ups, Tecosky took his revenge. He approached a sleeping Italics, let out a loud meow and hilariously inquired “are you sleeping?”. The drowsy feline just looked at his human and moved over just […]

Fresno, California freelance trailer editor Clark Zhu has created “Moving Pictures 2016,” a supercut video celebrating 260 films released in the past year. He features scenes from The Conjuring 2, Captain America: Civil War, The Magnificent Seven, and many others. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Final Cut 2014’, A Supercut Celebrating 330 […]

Amazon has announced Amazon Go, physical brick and mortar stores that make use of what the company calls “Just Walk Out” technology to allow users to simply walk into a store, select their items for purchase, and walk out of the store with them without having to wait in line to checkout. The system makes […]