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ThinkGeek has created an out of this world Star Trek glassware set featuring 4 planet glasses (Earth, Vulcan, Romulus, and Qo’noS) as well as a Borg cube shot glass. We previously wrote about their Star Wars and solar system glassware collections. This Star Trek Planetary Glassware Set lets you gaze upon otherworldly beauty while drinking […]

On July 16, 2016, the adorable dachshunds of the Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals Championship ran race after race at the Los Alamitos Race Course until an adorably scrappy pup named Darcy was named the winner. Video featuring trial wins by defending champion Finn making the field Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals Championship and the 2016 championship final won […]

Tested editor Norman Chan recently attended the Replica Prop Forum‘s annual meetup, where members share their costumes, props, and impressive builds that are still being worked on. Norman met up with prop builder Dave Goldberg to check out his amazing X-Wing Fighter model that “has ties to the original production” and his ongoing open-source Y-Wing […]

While on location at the beach, the very informative Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” explains the etymology of the English word “none”, whether the word should be described as plural or singular and how common usage has relaxed the word over the years. We’re here to talk about whether it not is singular or […]

Back in April, Hank Azaria gave Stephen Colbert a taste of his incredible voice talent on The Late Show by doing impressions of his mom and grandma. Azaria also went on to introduce Colbert to his new character, Jim Brockmire.

NASA shared a beautiful time lapse that showed a year on Earth from one million miles away. The video was created using images taken by the EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite locked between the Earth and Sun. The camera takes a series of images across 10 different wavelengths at least once every two hours. […]

Skateboarder Christian Flores spent 2 years and more than 2,000 attempts trying to land his triple-set laser flip down a flight of stairs. Flores gave it all that he had, mastered the art of falling, and vomited before finally sticking his difficult trick. via Digg

A series of birds demonstrate how to properly dance to various styles of Electronic Dance Music. via reddit

Alex Luthor recently created a fantastic fake movie trailer for the upcoming film, Star Wars: Episode VIII, that helps build hype for the next chapter in the ongoing Star Wars story. Episode VIII is currently scheduled to release on December 15th, 2017. via MightyMega

Pokémon Go Beginner’s Guide Online Course – 44% off in the Laughing Squid Store If you didn’t pick Pikachu at the start of Pokemon Go, you’re already in need of help. If you did? Good for you, you still need help because the game is massive and full of players who are already way better […]

PES has released a remastered HD version of “Gave Over”, his 2008 stop-motion animation featuring classic arcade death sequences recreated using everyday objects.

Casey Neistat dressed up as a Pokémon Go trainer and chased a life-sized Pikachu through New York City. Shonduras, who was in the Pikachu costume, posted a behind-the-scenes video of their adventure. A random phonecall from Casey Neistat turns into the BEST 38 HOURS EVER!! We fly to NYC to ride Boosted Boards and play […]

In “Gotta Groove Records“, filmmaker Nick Cavalier took a really insightful look into the history and daily life at the long lasting eponymous vinyl pressing plant, a one-stop shop for all things vinyl based out of Cleveland, Ohio that truly believes in the medium they produce. We believe that the vinyl record format is the […]

Musician Andy McKee performed the Skyrim song “Streets of Whiterun” by Jeremy Soule on a gorgeous and unique harp guitar that was crafted by Greenfield Guitars in Montreal, Canada. Proprietor Michael Greenfield explained the composition of this beautiful instrument. My harp guitar has its own, proprietary body shape and many unique features. While inspired by […]

The Renegade is a very clever 3D printing pen that uses recyclable plastic from bags and bottles to create inexpensive, readily available filament for creative projects. Developed by British 3D engineer Daniel Edwards, the pen mades it very to recycle and create at the same time. At present, Edwards is currently raising funds through Kickstarter […]

ElectroBOOM host Mehdi Sadaghdar repeatedly set himself on fire while he demonstrated graphite and its more exciting properties. Graphite is one of the many interesting forms of carbon. And carbon I love! It morphs into coal, diamond, graphite, graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, buckyballs and more, all with their own set of fantastic properties. Except for CO2, that […]

Adam Savage delivered a love letter to cosplay in the form of a TED Talk. Savage has often been celebrated for his elaborate cosplay builds like Hellboy, Admiral Ackbar, and his many spacesuits. Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. […]

Code:deck is a stylish deck of playing cards with code snippets describing each card in different programming languages like JavaScript, C++, and even Brainfuck. via The Awesomer

Mike Olbinski, a Phoenix-based photographer and stormchaser created Vorticity, a stunning time lapse of several springtime tornadoes developing across the American heartland. Not only did I get one, but I got six more. On April 15th, the very first day out, I saw two tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle. May 9th was Wynnewood and Sulphur […]

In response to a user submitted question, occasional SciShow host Olivia Gordon of the Missoula Insectorium explained why cats love cat nip so very much. The catnip stimulates three main areas of the cat’s brain; the olfactory bulb which processes scent, the amygdala which is involved in emotions and decisions, and the hypothalamus which is in charge […]

Animation designer has created “Porter Des Choses” (“Wearing Things”), a brilliantly surreal short film in which pairs of shapely legs strut across the screen with a variety of playfully eccentric items, such as furniture, patterned balloons, a ball of human hands holding red and green apples and a giant brown nautilus costume, jauntily piled on […]

French artist David Bayo has created a time lapse that that shows him crafting a beautiful portrait of a woman with the use of over one-million precise dots made from a razor-sharpened pencil. More than a million dots, about 90 hours of work and a couple headaches to complete this piece. Hope you guys will […]

Jayna Grassel, a talented speed crocheter, demonstrated for the cameras of Wired/Condé-Nast her ability to craft a perfect yarn flower in a remarkable 90-seconds, although the filming did need a couple of takes due to positioning. I went up, saw the studio, met a bunch of people and they told me to stand behind a […]

The Backyard Scientist built a giant vortex cannon in a video for GoPro. Not satisfied to simply blow smoke rings, Kohler filled his creation with propane and launched the gas at a lit blowtorch to create a burning ring of fire.

In the spirit of the upcoming Presidential election, National Geographic has created a short video primer that explains why Republicans are represented by elephants and Democrats by donkeys. The Republican elephant was popularized in the political cartoons of Thomas Nast …The Democrat donkey was introduced decades before to insult Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Jackson. Jackson […]

Improv Everywhere and their Magical Porta Potty returned to the Governor’s Ball Music Festival in New York City to surprise people trying to use the bathroom with unexpected weddings, jailbreaks, and more. The Magical Porta Potty premiered last year at the festival and featured surprises like a gospel choir and mariachi band. For our latest mission, […]

On a recent episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Vinny Logozio demonstrated how to build your own version of Green Lantern‘s epic power battery from the DC Universe.

A photo posted by Sofia Vergara (@sofiavergara) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53pm PDT Garry Marshall, the beloved award-winnig actor, comedian, writer, director and creator of such iconic shows and films as The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries, sadly passed away on July 19, 2016 from pneumonia […]

The PBS Digital Studios channel Shanks FX recently showed us how to recreate the iconic teleporter effect seen in Star Trek: The Original Series using household items. They used glitter, Alka-Seltzer tablets, various reflective objects, and more. The Star Trek teleport / energize effect has been featured in every iteration of the franchise, dating back […]

Real Engineering gave a primer on the engineering and business SpaceX will use to send humans to Mars. The science is important, but so is the company’s focus on lowering the costs associated with space travel to make crewed missions to Mars a reality.

On a recent episode of Super-Fan Builds, a web series created by Andy Signore for Break Media‘s AWE me channel, creative director Shane Hammond and his team at the Set Masters design and fabrication company built a DeLorean Hot Tub Time Machine for a Back to the Future fan named Brandon. What do you get […]

Travis Greenwood recently teamed up with Robert Jones and Brett Roberts to create part 2 of their original supercut tribute to some of the best t-shirts worn in movies. From airbrushed novelties and tacky tourist tees to raglan ringers and stupid slogans, film’s most amazing — and ridiculous — prop t-shirts take center stage in […]

MinutePhysics explains the reasons why it is more difficult to crash something into the Sun than it is to propel it out of the solar system altogether, and why trying to launch all our nuclear waste into space is a bad idea. This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it’s so hard to […]

The Star Wars Lightsaber Wall Hooks by ThinkGeek feature Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader style hilts that are both designed to hang your Jedi and Sith attire on. The galaxy has been largely safe from attack. Oh, and last we checked, the armed services weren’t accepting recruits trained solely in lightsaber usage. Yeah, we checked. […]

In a new video from New York Magazine, Canadian vocal talent Steve Love does great impressions of numerous popular characters from Game of Thrones.

In the continuing What If? series, xkcd artist Randall Munroe answers the reader-submitted question, “How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun?” The explanation includes how fireflies create their light and the best way to logically match the Sun’s brightness with fireflies. image via xkcd

Matt Damon (Jason Bourne) recently teamed up with GQ Magazine to share some of the clever methods that he uses to win a movie fight. Prep your left hook. Matt Damon is truly our inside man to all of Hollywood’s most well-cloaked secrets. For example, all those ripped muscly on-screen fighters? Actually they’re just muscly […]

While working their website, the Barcelona design studio Norte stumbled across the wonderful snowy effect that charged iron filings made and from there created Ferro a deadly mountainous mystery around that particular feature. A menacing storm on a mountainous wasteland. A lone boat sways slowly in the middle of a lake. A shot breaks the […]

While on its three-month 2016 voyage around the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, the NationalOceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) ship Okeanos captured absolutely gorgeous footage of several previously unseen deep sea creatures that live at the bottom of the deepest ocean floor. NOAA’s Okeanos research ship has been cruising the seas above the trench, which […]

In a July 19, 2016 press release, the online video streaming company Netflix announced that a second season of the award-winning documentary Making a Murderer is in production and will revisit the ongoing case of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey. Netflix today announces that Executive Producers / Directors, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, […]

In Thunder Road, writer, actor and producer Jim Cummings brilliantly portrays Officer Arnaud, a grieving son mourning the loss of his mother from the back row of the chapel until he is called up to perform his mother’s favorite song “Thunder Road“. Prior to doing so, however, the tearful officer eulogizes his mother and suddenly […]

Animator Dominic Panganiban of Domics shared his struggles with public transit as a broke college student in Toronto. As Panganiban points out, it’s not easy relying on shared transportation options, particularly in inclement weather.

“Emojis the Musical” is an upbeat musical video by AVbyte about the confusing language of emojis. The song is available to purchase through Loudr, and a behind-the-scenes video will be released on the AVbyte channel soon.

In the video essay “The Coen Brothers: Green“, Baltimore filmmaker Jacob T. Swinney, known for his “First and Final Frames” series and other work, examined how the color green has been strategically used in so many Coen Brothers’ films. Swinney demonstrated this effect by desaturating all colors other than green. You may not have noticed, […]

In episode 17 of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the remarkable career of the late Pete Postlethwaite, whose unique face made very recognizable British character actor, but whose American notoriety didn’t really take off until the 1980s. Throughout his career, Postlethwaite has played an immense […]

Paramount Pictures has released a new featurette for Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise, directed by Justin Lin (Fast & Furious). The video features Justin Lin talking about his deep passion for everything Star Trek and interesting comments from cast members Star Trek Beyond is currently scheduled to […]

The Poo-Plunger by The Plunger Project is a poop emoji shaped plunger designed with the slogan “Smile While You Plunge.” The creators are currently raising money on Kickstarter for a production run of the whimsical bathroom helper and have committed to donating a portion of proceeds to charities that help provide clean water and sanitation […]

Centinel4 recently shared a photo on reddit of a radioactive waste cake that was carefully crafted for a radioactive waste manager’s birthday. We are not sure who actually created the cake, but Centinel4 may have been at the celebration because he mentioned that the barrels were made of marzipan, not earplugs or marshmallows as numerous […]

One Giant Hand created this wonderful “Clown Activity” warning sign as guest post on Obvious Plant.

Honest Trailers – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice by Screen Junkies Strap in for the superhero film that was so highly anticipated it could never have lived up to all our expectations and instead turned into a badass Batman movie trapped inside a mediocre attempt at a Man of Steel sequel- Batman v Superman: […]