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Holleyweb, a company best known for its best-selling Zorb Ball, has created a portable transparent bubble dome that allows campers to feel like they are sitting right out in the elements, staring up at the stars. What is important to remember, however, is that transparency works both ways. Inflatable bubble house can be easily installed […]

Reddit3016 is a fictional version of reddit with daily updates from the year 3016. The site was created by filmmaker Blair Erickson as a possible look at what life online would look like 1,000 years into future, complete with posts on the fictional sites MindTube, Hologur, and The Huffington Planet. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Happy Goggles are a pair of cardboard virtual reality goggles made from a specially designed McDonald’s Happy Meal box. The promotion is currently being tested at McDonald’s locations in Sweden, but the company says it hopes to release the goggles in other countries in the future. images via McDonald’s Sweden

artwork by Okuda San Miguel The Truck Art Project features a fleet of 100 freighter trucks that act as a canvas for contemporary artists to transform. The trucks will then go on their usual trade routes throughout Spain. A few of the trucks will also be used as mobile gallery where pieces of artwork will […]

Guitarist Eric Calderone aka 331Erock performed an absolutely incredible heavy metal version of the beloved theme of classic children’s show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. What makes the performance so great, other than Calderone’s talent, is the touching respect he gives to the show and to Mister Rogers himself. So I was thinking. There seriously has been […]

In “Gymkhana Eight,” rally driver Ken Block of Hoonigan Racing speeds and drifts through the exotic city of Dubai in his 650 horsepower 2015 Ford Fiesta ST RX43. We previously wrote about Ken tearing up the streets of Los Angeles in “Gymkhana Seven.” Head Hoonigan in charge, Ken Block, has taken his penchant for killing […]

A photo posted by GO CUBES Chewable Coffee (@gocubes) on Feb 29, 2016 at 6:52am PST San Francisco company Nootrobox has created GO CUBES, a very simple, convenient and portable way for lovers of java lovers to get their daily fix with a chewable gummy bite. Each cube is made from cold brew coffee and […]

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Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys have captured slow motion footage of dry ice bombs exploding. They created the dangerous bombs by placing chunks of dry ice into sealed containers and waiting for the pressure to build up. Gavin and Dan filmed their experiment at 2,500 FPS with a Phantom Flex4K […]

MTV News correspondent Josh Horowitz recently met up with Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley (Rey) on the 2016 Oscars red carpet to talk about Star Wars: Episode VIII and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill).

In her continuing visual project “My Life In 1.000.000 Frames“, talented French filmmaker Candice Drouet created a powerful story using the “Last Words” uttered by characters from 129 different films. via Boing Boing

When Steve Jurvetson and friends took “Spot”, the four-legged Boston Dynamics robot out for a walk, they encountered a confused little dog who circled the parking lot, barked incessantly and couldn’t stop staring at the foreign creature that perhaps seemed like a robotic version of himself. See Spot Run — Dog vs. Robot. Video: https://t.co/hbDDV62h2G […]

In a new ad campaign for the IBM Watson, actress Carrie Fisher hilariously plays therapist to a group of evil robots who are seeking rehabilitation for their formerly nefarious deeds. Also in the group, is a new robot named Watson who, because of his cognitive adaptability, had a much brighter outlook on humans and life […]

"Better bend than break." – Scottish Proverb ???? Jodi Schneider McNamee #philosophyofcorduroy #oldestlivingcat #sircorduroy #26andpouncing #catlove #cat #petme #meow #bestmeow #catsandwomen #instacat_meows #instacat #catsofinstagram A photo posted by Corduroy (@oldestlivingcat) on Dec 21, 2015 at 10:41am PST In August 2015, the Guinness Book of Records declared a beautiful 26-year old long-haired cat in Oregan named […]

Peter Brown of Shop Time has created a set of unpoppable bubble wrap drink coasters by casting the favorite packing material in resin for his Dip It! series. The video itself details the process fairly well, but for anyone looking to replicate the coasters, Brown has created an Instructables post as a step-by-step guide. via […]

Jelle Bakker of Jelle’s Marble Runs created a 750-foot track in the sand near Alkmaar in the Netherlands and sent 12 marbles racing down to compete for first place. The marbles rolled and twisted through the track and a number of obstacles as the jockeyed for position. A very amazing long marble run made on a […]

As part of the official celebration for the 150th anniversary of author Beatrix Potter‘s birth, the Royal Mint has created two new 50p coins per Royal Proclamation. The first features a profile of the author herself and the second featuresa full color image of the author’s beloved Peter Rabbit stamped right onto the front. The […]

Anchor is a new app for instantly recording and sharing audio clips online up to two minutes long. Users can also respond to clips posted by others to create a conversation. The app is available in the iTunes App Store. Anchor makes it easy to broadcast short audio clips to a global audience in seconds. […]

Designers at China’s Dalian Nationalities University have created the Bike Washing Machine, a combination bicycle and laundry machine that lets users exercise and wash their clothes at the same time. The machine replaces the front wheel of a traditional bicycle with a washing machine drum, and as the user pedals they can power a display […]

During Toy Fair 2016 in New York City, Mattel unveiled a new remote control toy under its Tyco brand called the Terra Climber. The Terra Climber sports the face of a monster and is able to climb obstacles indoor and outside (stairs and rough terrain) with its orange claw-covered wheels, which can spin 360 degrees, […]

The Flippist has created a flipbook animation commemorating Leonardo DiCaprio winning the 2016 Oscar for “Best Actor” for his role in The Revenant. Leo DiCaprio finally gets his long overdue Oscar…almost.

Matthew Patrick runs through a brief history of Pokémon in 9 minutes in honor of it’s 20th anniversary. Pokemon more so than virtually any other video game franchise in existence has managed to completely transcend the realms of being just a video game series, becoming a world wide phenomenon pretty much over night. Today, 20 […]

Host Hank Green explains why we have leap years on the latest episode of SciShow.

Los Angeles-based Allen Pan of Sufficiently Advanced recently demonstrated how to create a functional ice sword out of pykrete, a frozen composite material he made from mixing together 14% toilet paper with 86% water. Allen demonstrated the strength of his ice sword by chopping a watermelon in half.

WatchMojo.com shares their top 10 real world facts about Batman.

Sneaky Zebra has created a new cosplay music video featuring a number of the creative, pop culture-themed costumes at London Super Comic Convention 2016 at the ExCeL exhibition center in London, UK. It’s the first Comic Con of 2016 for us and what better way then the awesome London Super Comic Con – great atmosphere, […]

Breakthru Films, the producers of the upcoming animated film Loving Vincent have released the first trailer about the life of troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh. This groundbreaking film will be the first film ever to be fully animated using oil canvases as the frames. Over 100 artists created the paintings based on Van Gogh work, […]

Filmmakers Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski of Corridor Digital have created an interactive 360 YouTube video that allows you to play a real life version of the classic Where’s Waldo? puzzle game. Corridor Digital shot their entire video with a GoPro camera and then stitched it all together with Kolor software.

Tom Fisher has created a modern style trailer for Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith. Previously he created modern style trailers for the original Star Wars trilogy, The Phantom Menace and Attack of The Clones.

In celebration of leap year, Kyoot Animals has created a compilation of cats leaping from various places.

In a video for StarTalk on the National Geographic Channel, host Neil deGrasse Tyson explained the reason for leap years and why February 29, 2000 was exceptionally rare.

In the first part of his Americapox series, the CGP Grey explained how certain diseases were brought to the New World via newly domesticated animals. The second part of the series explains the four different factors of domestication (friendly, feedable, fecund, family friendly), why certain species that lent themselves to to domestication while others did […]

Graham Norton presents all the best moments from season 18 of The Graham Norton Show.

Artists Moise(Art404), John Yuni, and Tom Galle have created the Macbook Selfie Stick, an exaggerated device made for taking selfies with a laptop at the end of a long pole. photos via Macbook Selfie Stick via PetaPixel

Animals are my world Mark Imhof aka Mark the Dog Guy, a compassionate New York City man who runs a full service pet grooming company, generously donates his time and his skills to the Manhattan and Brooklyn branches of Animal Care and Control to provide much need haircuts to shelter dogs in order to make […]

Wonderful fashion designer, mixed artist, and cosplay model Kay Pike has created a fantastic new time lapse video that features Kay painting a Poison Ivy costume on her own body at 1,000x speed. Pike captured the footage while she was streaming live on Twitch. Her entire collection of Poison Ivy photos are available on Imgur […]

On a special “After the Oscars” episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ben Affleck sat down with host Jimmy Kimmel and revealed a fake deleted scene from the upcoming film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The hilarious bonus scene — starring Affleck, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg, Will Arnett, and Kimmel — features Jimmy being a […]

Longtime rivals rock, paper, and scissors come together in a new commercial for Android. Rock, Paper and Scissors don’t have much in common, but that won’t stop them. Be Together. #NotTheSame

A sweet blind baby blue penguin named Blindy went swimming in deep water for the very first time with the assistance of his human caretaker. Blindy was born without the ability to see due a malformed head and beak which caused him to constantly swim in circles and bump the into edges of his shallow […]

The Verge has created a new video where they explore the past 20 years of the Pokémon video game series and explains how the hundreds of digital creatures took the world by storm. Pokemon celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the game’s first release in Japan. In two decades, it’s become nearly as iconic for our […]

Vanity Fair had celebrities use the MSQRD app to swap their faces with Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2016 Oscars. Billy Eichner, Conan O’Brien, Judd Apatow, and more celebrities all took turns as DiCaprio and gave versions of an acceptance speech.

Vox explains how a leap year works to keep the calendar year in synch with the seasonal year.

The School of Life explores how manners have evolved over the course of human history. Looked at over time, we’re gradually picking up slightly better manners – but what are we doing now that might, in future eras, be considered bad manners?

Mariachi Entertainment System is a group of skilled musicians from San Antonio,Texas who perform mariachi-style covers of classic video game and pop culture songs. They recently played a fantastic cover of John Williams‘ epic song “The Throne Room“, which was first heard during the medal ceremony scene at the end of Star Wars: Episode IV […]

The Official Pokémon Channel has released a new video that celebrates the past 20 years of Pokémon video games. They also quickly tease the release of their next two games in the popular ongoing series, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. Both games will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS in Late 2016. Always there for […]

The Oscars takes a look at how the poster art has evolved for the films that have won an Academy Award for “Best Picture”.

In celebration of the The Oscars, Toscano Bricks has recreated the 2016 Best Picture nominees in LEGO. It takes a lot of bricks to build the best movies of the year… Here are the Oscars 2016 Best Picture Nominees in Lego: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The […]

Spoiler Alert! The Fine Brothers reveal spoilers for 50 movies from 2015 in 4 minutes, all in one take.

theseheavenlybodies created a silly video dubbing in screams to replace the sounds of trains that are passing by. via reddit

Carsandwater did an experiment to see what it would sound like if a red hot nickel ball was placed on top of the strings of an acoustic and electric guitar. My Uncle suggested testing the effect heat would have on the tuning of a guitar :)”