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Burger Fiction presents the entire Transformers quadrilogy in 90 seconds.

Droneboarding is a new variation of snowboarding using powerful drones to pull riders across the snow. In a recent video, snowboarder Kaspars Balamovskis demonstrated the technique, which appears similar to kite skiing, using a large Aerones drone. YouTube user Valplushka shared a video of a young child droneboarding with a much smaller drone. via IEEE Spectrum

Mike Relm presents a “Puppy Baby Monkey Remix” by Kevin Ryder of the disturbing, yet catchy, “Puppy Baby Monkey” Mountain Dew commercial that aired during Super Bowl 50. The track is available on Ryder’s SoundCloud account.

Screen Rant takes a look at ten movies scenes that were completely improvised. Movie fans never know just how much time, money and energy is spent creating the next Hollywood hit before cameras ever start rolling. But as polished or acclaimed as a script may be, there’s no predicting what will happen when the cast […]

A Team Black Sheep Vendetta FPV racing drone quickly descends Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building that stands at 2,722 feet. The product demonstration video also highlights the drone’s features as it zips around the city and its other skyscrapers. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

In a recent episode of Science Channel, biologists Adam Ruben and Carin Bondar use animation to offer a quick explanation as to how the lyrebird is able to imitate just about any sound it hears. In 2007, naturalist Sir David Attenborough presented a wonderful BBC segment on lyrebirds.

After documenting his first Burning Man experience in 2014, filmmaker and photographer Ari Fararooy returned to the playa in 2015 and collected more of the surreal moments that make the festival what it is. Using digitally animated photos, he created second video, “Burning Moments II”, an extension of his first video. Fararooy also provided the […]

Netflix has just released a teaser trailer for Beat Bugs, an upcoming, original animated series that takes place in the grass and features over 50 songs by The Beatles performed by different artists. Five funny, charming young bugs have adventures and learn life lessons in their overgrown backyard, in new stories inspired by the songs […]

In advance of their new Explorer special Eyes Wide Open, science journalist Michael Stevens of Vsauce and National Geographic spoke with Dr. Marty Banks and Dr. William Sprague of UC Berkeley about why prey animals such as goats, have eyes on the side of their heads with rotating horizontal pupils. Marty noticed something that no […]

Video game vlogger Darkk Mane has created an absurd and hilarious honest review of the game Tetris. Mane takes issue with the game’s poor character development, voice acting, and graphics which he says are inferior to the video game Seinfeld. via Digg

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back as two single gals doing their thing in the new trailer for season three of their Comedy Central series Broad City.

Disney Family teamed up with Uncrustables Sandwiches to share a tasty recipe that shows how to make cute Monsters Inc. themed food art featuring Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan (Sulley). image via Disney Family

Disney shows how to make a punk pink pasta dish in the form of Animal from The Muppets. This veggie-rich pasta dish dances to the “beet” of a different drummer! Invite Animal to your next dinner party!

somersetVII takes a look back at the 16 wonderful films made by the Coen Brothers over the last 30 years. via The Awesomer

Néit Luggage is a London-based startup centered around the Néit, a smart GPS-enabled piece of hard shell luggage that folds flat for easy storage in small spaces. The design of the Néit is inspired by an armadillo shell, and the GPS capability means owners can track their luggage with the Néit travel app which stores an […]

Davie504, the incredible bassist who performed a montage of 200 of the most iconic bass lines, used a spoken answer from different versions of Google Translate to use as a backing track for a terrific slap bass solo. Google Translate Beat Box Meets Slap Bass. I used some samples of the old version of Google […]

The Sherp is an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) with a simple but rugged design that features massive self-inflating tires that make the vehicle capable of going just about anywhere. A demonstration video shows the Sherp rolling through swamps, snow, ice, sand, and even swimming in water. We would like to present an ATV, based on develops […]

Prone to fits of mania, narcissism and power failure. In the new “main trailer” for the chillingly dark comedy High Rise directed by Ben Wheatley and adapted from the 1975 J.G. Ballard novel of the same name, the introverted Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) learns how to become a bit more outgoing and neighborly, despite […]

Immersion is a new series by Rooster Teeth where they recreate elements of popular video games in real life. On their latest entertaining episode, members of Rooster Teeth to a fantastic job of bringing the classic arcade video game Space Invaders to life.

“RUN BABY RUN” is a short video by online filmmaker Eran Amir that uses various forms of a 3D printed baby to make it appear to run over water and sand on a beach, a main street in a small town, through the avenues of a city, over a bridge and through a market. The […]

Documentarian Pieter van Huijstee has created a wonderful media triptych tribute to Hieronymus Bosch, the brilliant Flemish Primitive, whose stunning masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is now the subject of an interactive online tour and is narrated by scholar Redmond O’Hanlon. The interactive documentary Jheronimus Bosch, the Garden of Earthly Delights provides an in-depth […]

Juggler and urban explorer Flaviu Cernescu made a daring descent down the outside of the 920-foot high north chimney of the Romag-Termo Power Plant in Piteå, Romania. The chimney second tallest structure in Romania. The brave endeavor took Cernescu about 14 minutes to complete as he made his way down the ladder which at times lacked any […]

For their exhibition “Van Gogh’s bedrooms” taking place February 14 – May 10, 2016, the Art Institute of Chicago physically recreated the sparsely beautiful painting “Bedroom in Arles” by the talented but tragic artist Vincent van Gogh. The Institute artists painstakingly captured every detail of the surrealist painting as they brought it in to the […]

16-month old Reed was confused when being held by his father Stephen Ratpojanakul and his father’s twin brother Michael Ratpojanakul. Reed couldn’t decide which man was really his father as he pointed at each saying “Da Da” while they passed him back and forth. via BuzzFeed

Actor Ben Schwartz, known for his roles on Parks and Recreation and House of Lies, recently chatted with fans via a reddit Ask Me Anything. He also sat down with reddit to talk about how he helped bring BB-8‘s voice to life in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released a series of beautiful space travel posters for destinations in our solar system and beyond to show a possible future where space travel is more common than it is today. Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge […]

Last year, Catastrophic Creations created a fantastic Super Mario Bros. themed Chain Chomp Cat Bed. They are back once again with a revised design that they call the Mario Cat Complex 2.0. The large wall-mounted video game inspired cat climber comes equipped with warp pipes for the felines to slide through, Bullet Bills and iconic […]

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited New Hampshire for his Hulu show Triumph’s Election Special 2016 where he spoke with college students at the University of New Hampshire about political correctness. In the clip, the foul-mouthed puppet voiced by comedian Robert Smigel asks questions about trigger warnings, “mansplaining”, and gender neutrality. Triumph also sold Donald Trump merchandise […]

Hollywood Records and American Recordings are releasing Star Wars Headspace, a new electronic music compilation album produced by Rick Rubin that is mixed with all sorts of Star Wars sound effects and audio clips. It will feature original songs by artists like Baauer, Flying Lotus, Röyksopp, GTA, and more. The upcoming album, which drops on […]

Dark Pixel Digital spent a year creating “Star Kart,” an awesome 3D animated mashup of Star Wars and the Mario Kart video game series. Mario Kart characters engage in a high-speed race in their Star Wars spacecrafts as Mario plays the role of Luke Skywalker and attempts to blow up the Death Star. via GameTyrant

The Tanner family returns to their San Francisco home and “damn they all still looks good” in the first official trailer for Fuller House, the upcoming Netflix original sequel series to Full House. Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and friend Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) move in with widowed mother D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron-Bure) as she tries […]

Father and son team Lincoln and Dan crack open a giant rubber band ball for an episode of their series What’s Inside? As the ball is broken open, it falls apart in interesting ways as some individual bands fly off while some remain grouped.

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Experience the cult classic whining-hipster-gamer movie that wasn’t as good as the comic books: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

The IllumiBowl is a toilet nightlight with a range of colors to light up nighttime bathroom trips. The device attaches to the side of the bowl and turns on when a motion sensor is triggered. The IllumiBowl can cycle through its eight possible colors, or be set to one solid color. photos via IllumiBowl via […]

Photographer and filmmaker Semih Okmn has created “When the Evil Smiles,” a devilishly good supercut video of notorious villains smiling in movies. The Joker from The Dark Knight, Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and Hans Gruber from Die Hard are a few of the evil characters featured in Semih’s supercut. music […]

Los Angeles-based baker and author Rosanna Pansino is celebrating the theatrical release of Marvel‘s Deadpool film this week by demonstrating how to make an awesome pepperoni pizza that looks just like the Merc with a Mouth. A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Feb 9, 2016 at 9:41am PST image via Rosanna Pansino

How It Should Have Ended gives their animated interpretation of how Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have ended.

An intense supercell thunderstorm that formed off Australia’s Sunshine Coast near Maroochydore on February 1, 2016 was captured in dramatic time-lapse footage by Blue Dog Films. The storm was recorded on Canon 5D Mk3 using an intervolometer to record in regular intervals, and the finished video was edited in Adobe After Effects. via The Creators Project

Jukka-Pekka Bohm has created an intense supercut video of movie characters saying “I should have killed you when I had the chance.” The full list of the featured films is available on YouTube. via VA Viper, Neatorama

The Internet Archive has created The Malware Museum, an online collection of computer viruses and other malware from the 1980s and 1990s stripped of their destructive aspects and put on display. The digital exhibit uses emulation to allow users to safely witness the effects of these computer programs without risking infection. images via The Malware […]

Joerg Sprave, German slingshot armorer and owner of The Slingshot Channel, created an amazing full auto coke bottle gatling gun last month that shoots a deadly barrage of arrows. Charlie Allen’s Big Blast Caps are great little devices that allow you to pressurize plastic bottles in order to use them as LOUD targets – but […]

“Star Wars Hangover: The Force Won’t Stop Awakening” is a great new comedy short by the Awestruck network, AwesomenessTV‘s latest venture, that features a Star Wars fanatic family that has trouble with moving on from The Force Awakens film. Star Wars 7 brought out the inner fan-girl in us all. But it’s been over a […]

“Vulture Remix” Episode 27 imagines what it would be like if the Netflix true crime documentary Making of a Murderer took place in Springfield, with Homer Simpson playing the role of Steven Avery. Jerome Buting, one of Steven Avery’s criminal defense lawyers who appeared on the documentary, hints that this might be the story for […]

The Great British Television Map by Tim Ritz shows the locations where popular British television series take place and are actualy filmed in the United Kingdom. Prints of the map are available through Society6. via Neatorama

Selected clips of BBC nature narrator Sir David Attenborough being awesome from the 2002 BBC documentary Life On Air – David Attenborough’s 50 Years In Television. via reddit

Cocktail Chemistry shows how to make a really cool ice ball cocktail that needs to be cracked open with a tiny hammer when served. via Gifsboom, Neatorama

HelloDenizen presents a series of tiny animals dressed as safari animals for your enjoyment.

In the first episode of the new Tested series Simple Feats of Science!, Zeke Kossover from The Exploratorium destroyed a soda can using only a ping-pong ball, science, and a vacuum canon. Kossover explained how the machine helps the ping-pong reach destructive speeds, and told host Kishore Hari how his school’s refusal to buy a […]

In late January, the DeLorean Motor Company surprised us all by announcing that they will be building a limited number of new DeLorean DMC-12 replica automobiles to sell in 2017. They also recently released a new commercial, titled “Lucky Coin,” that follows a young man who stumbles upon a DeLorean. The man gets in through […]

In the 17th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, Cut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in Egypt as modeled by Dina Zaky, whose hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the trends of each decade. Here’s behind-the-scenes footage from the photo shoot featuring researcher Jacinthe […]