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by Glen Tickle on (#160VV)
The Smart Jump Rope by Tangram Factory can track a user’s jump count and display it in mid-air using LEDs embedded in the rope itself. The rope can also track other fitness data like calories burned and workout times to pair with a companion app. via Swiss Miss
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by Justin Page on (#160VX)
Industrial design professor Yaacov Kaufman has created Juice Bruce, a good looking wooden citrus juicer. Twisting and turning lemons, oranges, and grapefruit on top of Juice Bruce’s wooden head, which is easy to clean, will result in their liquid goodness being quickly extracted. It is available to purchase from the Monkey Business website and Amazon. […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#160RQ)
Filmmaker Stuart Ashen and his crew recently made an interesting discovery behind a loose brick in the wall of Jurnet’s Bar in Norwich, England. via reddit
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by Justin Page on (#160RS)
Master sushi chef Hiroyuki Terada of NoVe Kitchen and Bar has been using Kikuichi brand knives for over 20 years and he demonstrated his love for the knives in 2014 by quickly slicing up all sorts of vegetables while blindfolded. On a recent episode of his web series, Will It Sushi?, Hiroyuki made delicious-looking sushi […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#160H4)
ZitherFilmography traveled to Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park to capture stunning video of a natural “firefall†where the light from the sunset catches the water in such a way that it appears to be made of fire. The name for the spectacle comes from the Yosemite Firefall, which was an event where real burning […]
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by Justin Page on (#160H6)
On the latest episode of Variant, a web series that covers everything about comic books, host Arris Quinones explores the various costume changes that Wonder Woman has had throughout her 75 year history.
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by Justin Page on (#160E4)
Anatoliy Omelchenko of Triangle Tree has designed the Edible Spoon Maker, a device that allows you to bake your own edible spoons from homemade and store-bought dough in only a few minutes. Anatoliy demonstrates how to make spoons using Pillsbury canned biscuit dough in his latest video. A photo posted by Anatoliy Omelchenko (@anatoliyart) on […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#160E6)
The AsapSCIENCE episode “What Happens When You Die?†explains the physical processes that begin to happen in the body after a person dies. The video includes a timeline of the various stages of decomposition.
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by Justin Page on (#160E8)
A photo posted by ?????? Hikaru Cho (@hikaru_cho) on Jul 14, 2015 at 12:04pm PDT Tokyo-based artist Hikaru Cho creates beautiful, surreal body paint optical illusions. In a video by toco toco tv, Hikaru explains how she started her journey into the world of body painting, her design process, and a how a typical day […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#160AH)
The MobilECG business card is a tiny portable heart monitor that fits in a wallet. It was created by the same team behind the MobilECG, an open source and affordable heart monitor. They stress that the business card is not a diagnostic device, but it is also open source. The repository is freely available on […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#160AK)
The Brita Infinity Smart Water Pitcher is a filtration pitcher with Wi-Fi capability that connects to the Internet and orders its own replacement filters through Amazon’s Dash Replenishment service. photos via Amazon
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by Justin Page on (#16044)
Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction have created a supercut video of movie characters cursing without actually cursing. When you wanna keep it PG, you gotta get creative.
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by Scott Beale on (#15YE0)
Jacob T. Swinney celebrates the work of Steven Spielberg by showcasing 30 of his iconic shots. Before I knew what a director was, I knew who Steven Spielberg was. I believe that this is partially due to the fact that Spielberg has crafted some of the most iconic shots in all of cinema. Many filmmakers […]
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by Scott Beale on (#15YBY)
Dieter Bohn of The Verge shares his “scout method†for wrapping headphone cables (and other types of cables) to prevent tangling.
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by Scott Beale on (#15YC0)
Household Hacker shares some creative alternative uses for a hair dryer when not using it to dry hair. Your Hair Dryer can do so much more than you thought! Try some of these awesome alternate uses. We’ll show you how to inflate an air mattress, open up sealed letters, remove candle wax and a lot […]
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by Scott Beale on (#15YC2)
This enthusiasitic 1979 Taco Bell commercial is oblivious to the imminent possibility of gasoline rationing. via reddit
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by Scott Beale on (#15YAB)
Luna Lee has released two new amazing covers, “Smells Like Teen Spirit†by Nirvana and “Californication†by Red Hot Chili Peppers, played on a Gayageum, a traditional Korean stringed instrument.
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by Scott Beale on (#15Y87)
Cyan has just released a teaser trailer for Obduction, their highly anticipated spiritual successor to the legendary adventure puzzle video game Myst. Obduction is scheduled for release in June 2016. This is your story now. You’ve been abducted from your cozy existence and added into an alien landscape with a stereotypical, Kansas farmhouse with a […]
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by Scott Beale on (#15Y4G)
CineFix shares their picks for the top 10 best movie plot twists of all time. Who doesn’t love a surprise? That’s why we’re taking time to talk about the biggest surprise endings in movie history (spoilers abound).
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by Scott Beale on (#15Y4J)
CinemaSins presents everything wrong with the 1988 live action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Well, see back in the 80’s, they made this movie that was part live-action and part animation… named Who Framed Roger Rabbit… and while we loved it at the time… it has NOT aged well.
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by Lori Dorn on (#15Y15)
National Geographic recently visited Big Major Cay aka Pig Beach, the wonderful island solely inhabited by feral but friendly swimming pigs who paddle around in the beautiful blue-green water of Exuma, Bahamas. Big Major Cay, an uninhabited island in the Bahamas, is home to dozens of feral pigs. No one is quite sure how they […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15XYV)
Bob Saget, John Stamos, and Dave Coulier appeared on The Late Show to debut a clip from Full House Nights, a new Full House reboot where the dads play detectives in a gritty crime series. Host Stephen Colbert also makes an appearance in the sketch as the suspect being interrogated by the other three men. […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XYX)
The wonderful online series Today I Found Out shared the absolutely fascinating history of what happened to the mail that was sent to Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street in London, even though the actual address did not exist until the 1930s. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first began writing Sherlock Holmes stories back in […]
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by Justin Page on (#15XYZ)
AwesomeDisneyToys has created a fun video series where they demonstrate how to make giant gummies in the shape of popular bottled drinks. So far, AwesomeDisneyToys has created spot-on gummy versions of Powerade, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and Fanta Orange drinks.
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XVS)
In the latest episodes of her wonderful grammar series, the very amusing Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen†of The New Yorker consulted a very old volume of Fowler’s Modern English Usage in order to understand the the true meaning of the word “massive†after hearing the word being used colloquially during a trip to […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15XVV)
Footage taken with a thermal imaging camera by Scott Sorensen captured his process of preparing coffee, toast, and an omelet for breakfast. He also filmed himself doing the dishes afterwards. via Sploid
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by Glen Tickle on (#15XRZ)
Amazon has introduced two new products that utilize its Alexa Voice Service, the Echo Dot and the Amazon Tap. The Echo Dot is a smaller version of the original Amazon Echo device released in 2014. Similar to its larger predecessor, the Echo Dot can serve as a voice-activated Bluetooth speaker that can be used to […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XS1)
In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, the legendary activist, author, inventor and professor Temple Grandin opened up about the way her brain works like a search engine and how she got into animal rights activism in a 2008 interview. I was diagnosed with autism as a young […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XPK)
Max, German Shepherd (5 y/o), Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY A photo posted by The Dogist (@thedogist) on Feb 29, 2016 at 6:51am PST Photographer Elias Weiss aka The Dogist has captured the incredible beauty of New York City dogs in a candid photo series that has since grown by leaps and bounds to […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XKJ)
The Food Surgeon, who performs all sorts of brilliant food procedures, went back to the operating room perform a “Spinal Kit Kat Implantation†into an innocent Three Musketeers bar, whose fluffy innards were removed very carefully with a scalpel and a tweezer. What am I up to? #teaser #foodporn pic.twitter.com/WjLrx7KZ3D — The Food Surgeon (@_TheFoodSurgeon) […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XGY)
Hugo GarcÃa and Paola Falero, two creatives working at Ogilvy and Mather Bogotá who love side projects, have created Remaking a Murderer, a wonderfully interactive map that chronologically plots the specific locations involved in the now famous Steven Avery case from the Netflix series Making a Murderer. GarcÃa and Falero have made the project collaborative, […]
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by Justin Page on (#15XAJ)
Pranksters Rahat Hussein and Dennis Roady of howtoPRANKitup recently teamed up to freak out fast food drive-thru employees with a fake alligator. Each time that an employee reached outside of the window to hand Rahat his food, Dennis quickly jumped out and acted like he was taking a bite out of their arm with his […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15XAM)
image via Vandelay Industries Vandelay Industries is a bot developed by Bertrand Fan for quickly adding GIFs from all nine seasons of Seinfeld to Slack conversations. Fan laid out his step-by-step process of creating the tool in a post on Medium. I’m happy to announce that I’ve completed my latest bot, Vandelay Industries. Vandelay Industries […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15XAP)
A photo posted by Chris Cline (@christophercline) on Oct 28, 2015 at 7:26am PDT Photo editor Cris Cline has created an adorably clever photo series in which he digitally enhances the size of his beloved goldendoodle Juji. Cline then inserts the two of them going on adventures throughout the Minnesota area where they live and […]
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by Justin Page on (#15XAR)
Los Angeles-based writer, comedian, and “man of a kajillion voices†Brock Baker has released volume two of his ongoing series where he does amazing celebrity impressions using the face swapping app titled Face Swap Live. Bakers gets into character as Snoop Dogg, Jack Black, Bernie Sanders, Nicolas Cage, and many others. Fans of Brock can […]
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by Scott Beale on (#15X70)
CinemaSins presents their take on everything that is wrong with the 2005 DreamWorks animated film Madagascar Here is a movie with truly terrible zoo-safety protocols. Also has some sins. In honor of Zootopia’s opening, here are the sins of another movie featuring a bunch of talking animals: Madagascar.
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by Justin Page on (#15X72)
Washington Canadian artist Dave Delisle of Dave’s Geeky Ideas has designed wonderful maps of major city subway systems from around the world in the style of Super Mario Bros. video games. The entire series is available to view on Dave’s website. Poster versions of his maps are available to purchase on Imagekind. Vancouver Pittsburgh Montreal […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15X04)
Inventor Colin Furze built a rocket launcher that shoots fireworks and detailed his build process in a recent video. Furze’s next video will be released on March 10, 2016 with a demonstration of his unique device in action. Based on Furze’s earlier fireworks videos it’s likely to be a spectacular display.
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by Lori Dorn on (#15X06)
In order to dispel swirling rumors of a band breakup after the Oscar Awards, the Foo Fighters pushed back with a hilarious video in which an overdressed Dave Grohl entertained the thought of becoming a solo artist, while the rest of the band held a brain storming session about who should replace him. We can […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15WXE)
For a recent episode of MythBusters, co-host Adam Savage built an elaborate fart machine to test a myth about farts appearing on infrared video footage. To properly test the myth, the simulated farts had to leave the machine at body temperature, so Savage used a heated water bath to bring an air chamber up to […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#15WXG)
In April 2015, the California Assembly voted unanimously to rename the rainbow decorated Waldo Tunnel in honor of the late great Robin Williams, who had been a longtime Bay Area resident. On March 1, 2016, CalTrans District 4 announced that the tunnel had been officially renamed. Williams resided in Marin, and his character Mork on […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15WP4)
Great Big Story recently sat down to interview America’s real life Time Lord, Dr. Judah Levine, to discuss his work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) creating the Internet Time Service (ITS). Although Dr. Levine doesn’t have a TARDIS, he earned his Doctor Who themed nickname because he is the person in charge of keeping […]
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by Justin Page on (#15WP6)
The first official trailer for Sony‘s upcoming Ghostbusters reboot film, directed by Paul Feig, was released on a recent episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The trailer brings a new team of paranormal monster hunters together 30 years after New York was saved by the original group of guys. It will star Kristen Wiig as […]
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by Justin Page on (#15WHH)
Tested editor Norman Chan recently teamed up with movie effect artists Frank Ippolito and Sean Charlesworth to create a stop-motion animated video using detailed Star Wars action figures (Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader) from Sideshow Collectibles. Parts two through four of their stop-motion video process are available to view in the premium section of Tested’s […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#15WES)
The Cinefix series What’s the Difference compared the film and book versions of Andy Weir‘s novel The Martian to highlight their differences. While Ridley Scott did a fairly straightforward adaptation of the book, there were still some things that were handled differently for the sake of the film. The video is hosted by Casey Redmon, Clint […]
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by Justin Page on (#15WEV)
On the latest episode of PBS Idea Channel, host Mike Rugnetta explores the fan theory that the clumsy Jar Jar Binks was actually a Sith Lord and the main evil mastermind throughout the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Jar Jar Binks… evil genius? A recent Star Wars fan theory has been doing the rounds on the […]
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by Justin Page on (#15WEX)
Kuma Films captured footage of yo-yo professional Ryo Yamashita performing all sorts of amazing yo-yo looping tricks in Osaka, Japan. The high-quality Yomega yo-yos used by Ryo are available to purchase from their web store. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Feb 25, 2016 at 9:31am PST
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by Justin Page on (#15W7Z)
Los Angeles-based baker and author Rosanna Pansino demonstrates how to make Emoji Eggo Waffles on the latest episode of her cooking show Nerdy Nummies. The template for her Emoji Waffles is available to download from MediaFire. A video posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Mar 1, 2016 at 6:47pm PST A photo posted by Rosanna […]
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by Scott Beale on (#15TKK)
Discovery has posted a preview of the MythBusters epic Grande Finale, which airs on March 5, 2016, followed by a special reunion episode featuring all five hosts of the show. Since 2002, Adam and Jamie have used science to separate fact from fiction in spectacular style! But, as the saying goes, all good things must […]
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by Scott Beale on (#15TJA)
Crazy Russian Hacker decided to find out what would happen if marshmallows were put in a vacuum.
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