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Disney Research has created a hybrid hydrostatic transmission and human-safe haptic telepresence robot that is capable of carefully handling delicate objects, interacting with humans, and even threading a needle. The robot uses a combination of pneumatic and hydraulic power for smooth and precise movement, and it is controlled by a human operator wearing a virtual reality headset […]

In a recent comedy sketch by CollegeHumor, they give us a real life look at what it would be like if a group of people hijacked your Facebook comment thread. You see, this is our Facebook thread now. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Drivers on an Ontario, Canada road were horrified to see a rather morbid highway sign that simply read “Text and Drive”, advertising the services of the Wathan Funeral Home. Rather than it being a shameless marketing strategy for new business as it appeared to be, the sign was a “public service prank” to alert people […]

Ryan Reynolds recently shared his touching tribute to 13-year-old Deadpool superfan Connor McGrath, who passed away from cancer in late April. Reynolds and McGrath originally met through the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Ryan was able to grant the young man’s wish of seeing the new Deadpool film before anyone else. Vulture created a video that recaps […]

Danish musicians Laila Skovmand, Robert Carlsson and the band Between Music have created AquaSonic, an amazing and uniquely ethereal concert that’s performed entirely underwater. Each musician performs in their own individual glass aquarium, playing specially handmade instruments that can withstand and be heard in such a specialized environment. AquaSonic is the culmination of the artists’ […]

Photographer Erin Elizabeth shot a gorgeous photoshoot of Australian mother Kim Tucci, who gave birth to “surprise” quintuplets in January 2016. According to BBC News, it took her only two minutes to give birth to her four beautiful daughters and one handsome son (Beatrix, Penelope, Allie, Tiffany, and Keith). Kim and her husband Vaughn, who […]

The Hydraulic Press Channel recently had some fun crushing gummy bears with their hydraulic press. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Jimmy Fallon shared clips from the obscure German celebrity face morphing show “Bonk!” on The Tonight Show. The show takes celebrity photos and manipulates them in exaggerated and grotesque ways. Its host Fritz Vanderbonk bears a striking resemblance to Fallon in a wig and glasses. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

ThinkGeek is featuring the Bionic Bird, a smartphone controlled robotic bird that can “fly indoors or outdoors at speeds up to 12 mph.” The Bionic Bird is compatible with both iOS and Android devices. Remember the day that birds somehow found their way into the school cafeteria? Kids would scream and squeal as the terrified […]

During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Hamilton actor Daveed Diggs proved to Jimmy Fallon why he is the fastest rapper on Broadway with a demonstration of his skills singing a song by his group Clipping. Diggs originated the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton where he raps 19 words in just three […]

Velocipedia is an interesting experiment, created by Bologna, Italy designer Gianluca Gimini, where he asked family, friends, and strangers to draw an image of a bicycle from memory. He then took a select few of the obscure drawings and turned them into beautiful, lifelike 3D renderings. Gimini’s entire collection of renderings are available to view […]

Gboard is a new iOS keyboard by Google with built-in search features so users can easily find information without having to switch between apps. The keyboard also features Glide Typing , emoji search, and GIF search for fast input of both words or images. The Gboard keyboard is available now in the App Store. Host your […]

Vlogger Joe Santagato played a hilarious game in which he and a small group friends took turns trying to recite a random string of words with their respective mouths held open by dental cheek retractors while the rest of the group had to guess what they were saying. via Pleated Jeans Host your WordPress blog […]

TÄNT VAR DET HÄR!! The new YouTube channel Swedish Dynamite launched with a video of host Erik Johansson gleefully blowing up two computers and a monitor. Viewers can suggest items to be blown up in the future by leaving a comment on the video. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

The adorable Nigerian dwarf goats of the Kids’s Zone at Point Defiance Zoo came out to play on a beautiful spring day in Tacoma, Washington. The hircine kids were the first ones out, bursting through the red gate while the older ones hung back, investigating the cameras that were filming them. New goats, baby goats, […]

Hyperloop One successfully tested their magnetic levitation propulsion system on May 11, 2016 at a site in the North Las Vegas desert. The test is an important step in making the new high-speed transportation technology a reality. The test vehicle reached 120 mph in just two seconds, and hit a top speed of 300 mph […]

Simon’s Cat, a city-dwelling kitty, took a trip out to the English countryside where he had fun romping around in the lush open fields. It wasn’t until he tried to find himself a snack that the eternally hungry feline learned how mean and scary those fields could be. An adventurous cat takes a walk on […]

ThinkGeek is featuring a 10-piece handmade Planetary Lollipop set that includes delicious images of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The individually wrapped hard candy lollipops each come with their own unique flavor. If you’ve been around ThinkGeek for a while, you already know this, but we once sold […]

Jimmy Kimmel Live! shared the action-packed world premiere trailer for Assassin’s Creed, an upcoming live action film directed by Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth) based on Ubisoft‘s popular video game franchise. The new movie, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, is currently set to dive into theaters on December 21st, 2016. Through a revolutionary technology that […]

Engineer fastythefastcat has built a really remarkable, if not a bit noisy, automatic guitar strumming robot that he built using LEGO Mindstorms technology. He also graciously shared how he made the robot in a separate video. …thought I’d share this video for the Lego fans that want a bit of a closer look and an […]

When a tiny chihuahua puppy who lost his mother to a car accident was brought to the Michigan Humane Society, they knew that he would need a lot of loving care. After a bit of thought, the decision was made to pair him with a very gentle cat named Gwen, who was nursing her newborn […]

Loog Guitars and Third Man Records have partnered together to create the Little Third Man Guitar, a real three string electric guitar that arrives as a disassembled kit in order to give kids the experience of building their own instrument for themselves. …around here we believe that when you build your own guitar you develop […]

The wonderful folks at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida shared an amazing slow-motion video of their resident rescued big cats each enjoying a yummy treat. Videographer Jeromy Hogue shot the native slo-mo footage with his Phantom camera. Big Cat in Slow Motion…Watch as tigers, a lion, and a black leopard take treats in slow […]

While on a trip to Antartica, opera singer Nick Allen belted out an impromptu aria that put the resident penguins on high alert and sent them scurrying away as fast as they could go. Since that day, however, penguins keep showing up in the tenor’s dreams. I'm sure I'm going to start dreaming about penguins…maybe […]

20-year-old Hugo Cornellier, who we have written about in the past, is back with a stabilized version of his time-lapse video made up of over 8.5 years worth of daily selfies (2,500+ photos) that Cornellier took of himself since he was 12 years old. In his newly released Q & A video and comments on […]

Great Big Story tells the remarkable tale of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemist who was concerned about what was being added to food to keep it fresh during the early 20th century. In order to document the health effects of such toxic preservatives, Wiley recruited a group of volunteers who were willing to eat […]

Today I Found Out looks back at a time when doctors literally blew smoke up the asses of patients to revive them or treat a wide variety of other conditions. The practice later gave us the phrase “Blowing smoke up your ass” to mean insincere flattery. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the planet Mercury’s May 9, 2016 transit between the Earth and Sun. The transit occurred between approximately 7:12 a.m. and 2:42 p.m. EDT, and the video shows the event across a number of different wavelengths. Mercury passes between the Earth and Sun like this about 13 times per century. Host […]

“The Man Who Put the Pee in Phosphorous” is a video by Great Big Story about 17th century German alchemist Hennig Brand who discovered phosphorous while boiling gallons of urine to attempt to create the philosopher’s stone. In the 1660’s, German alchemist Hennig Brand thought he knew the secret to making solid gold: pee. So […]

In a recent sound profile, SoundWorks Collection interviewed the Naughty Dog audio team and found out about their fascinating work on the newly released video game, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Audio lead Phillip Kovats, senior sound designer Robert Krekel, senior programmer Jonathan Lanier, and senior sound designer Jeremy Rogers all pitch in on explaining […]

The team at Disney Research‘s lab in Zürich has created an interactive software that simplifies the process of turning computer animated characters into physical mechanical toys that anyone can 3D print and build. Given an articulated character as input, the user iteratively creates an animation by sketching motion curves indicating how different parts of the […]

A man armed with a spear and dressed as an ancient warrior took down a flying drone that was filming a battle reenactment at a history festival in central Russia. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

“A Visual History of Ancient Hairdos (and Don’ts)” by The Atlantic is a amusing animated timeline that takes a look at the wonderfully eccentric, elaborately designed, and perhaps even purposeful hairstyles, for both men and women, from the past 50 centuries throughout the world. The documented history of hairstyles begins prior to 3200 BC, when […]

In the Royal Institution video “What Is Weightlessness?” host Andrew Marmery explains what causes the sensation of weight on Earth and what really causes the feeling of weightlessness while travelling in space. On one hand, we learn at school that weight is the force on an object due to gravity; on the other, there’s a more […]

Sladmore Contemporary has created a wonderful documentary about the extraordinary animal and insect sculptures that French artist Edouard Martine builds out of salvaged parts and junk. Take one workshop full of junk and a Frenchman with an eye for detail (not to mention an obsession with bugs) and you will find the most eclectic mix […]

In the 21th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in Kenya as modeled by Keesee Andrea, whose hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the researched trends of each decade. photos by WatchCut Host your WordPress blog with Laughing […]

The Makey Makey Invention Kit: Collector’s Edition is a simple tool that turns anything into a computer keyboard. Inventors simply connect objects to the Makey Makey board with an alligator clip to the desired mouse or keyboard input to create just about anything from a banana keyboard to a Play-Doh video game controller without any programming […]

Los Angeles filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created a supercut video of the numerous water scenes featured in Tim Burton‘s fantasy drama film, Big Fish. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

A sweet Siamese cat named Scooter, who lives in Mansfield, Texas with his human Gail, has broken the Guinness World Record Record for “Oldest living cat”. At 30-years old, Scooter is an amazing four years older than 26-year old Corduroy, the previous record holder. Born March 26, 1986, Scooter lives with his owner Gail Floyd, […]

Blind film critic Tommy Edison answers the question he says he gets asked more than any other, “How do blind people know when to stop wiping?“ Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Wendover Productions gives a dollar for dollar breakdown of why flying is so expensive. The video uses a hypothetical flight from New York City to Washington, D.C. and estimates the per-person cost of every expense that goes into a flight including fuel, crew payment, and airport fees. Flying is expensive, really expensive, but only kinda, […]

In the new trailer for the fourth season of the breakout Netflix series Orange is the New Black, tensions run high as factions begin to form, leading towards an impending battle at Litchfield prison. Who will fight, and who will fall? The fourth season of Orange is the New Black premieres on June 17, 2016. […]

Tickled is a new documentary by David Farrier (Short Poppies, Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws) about his strange journey to find the person behind a series of online “competitive endurance tickling” videos. What begins as a simple story takes a series of dark twists as Farrier gets closer to the truth. The film will be released in theaters […]

Software engineer and artist Mat Bergman has created a fantastic supercut video of every stop motion animated creature, made by the legendary Ray Harryhausen, in feature films. The great Ray Harryhausen creating magic as only he could.https://t.co/O3tYdis1fc pic.twitter.com/Oy2r6gDmsR — One. Perfect. Shot. (@OnePerfectShot) April 3, 2016 via Live for Films, Aaron Muszalski Host your WordPress […]

“The Eyes of TAXI DRIVER” is a video essay, created by Jacob T. Swinney for Fandor Keyframe, that explores the cinematographic techniques used by director Martin Scorsese in his 1976 film Taxi Driver. What makes Taxi Driver so great? It’s been forty years since its breathtaking vision of urban violence and decay first caused a […]

Universal Orlando Resort has released new details on the relaunch of The Incredible Hulk Coaster at Islands of Adventure. The pumped up ride, which re-opens in late summer 2016, will feature all new enhancements to its storyline, ride vehicles, entrance, and overall experience.” Massive New Marquee: From the moment you walk up to the beloved […]

In honor of Captain America: Civil War hitting theaters last week, guitarist Eric Calderone (a.k.a. “331Erock“) performed a heavy metal version of the Captain America movie theme song. Spider-Man even makes a special appearance during Eric‘s heavy metal cover to shred on the guitar. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Great Big Story took a short but detailed visual trip into the beautifully decorated subterranean Shell Grotto that exists below the seaside town of Margate, Kent, U.K. Its origin and purpose has been a complete mystery since it was discovered in 1835. Less than six feet beneath a residential neighborhood in the English seaside town […]

In an effort to discourage ownership of wild animals, a brave volunteer at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida safely demonstrated the danger of turning one’s back on a big cat. His daring experiment included a lion, a tiger and leopard, all of whom snuck up behind him quietly in attack mode, as dictated by […]

Great Big Story explains how the “traditional” Chinese food delivery container wasn’t an Asian idea, but instead was actually invented in Chicago and then further refined decades later in Los Angeles. Although the box is folded style was inspired by Japanese origami, the packaging is a uniquely Western invention. In 1894, Chicago-based inventor Frederick Weeks […]