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In the wonderful short film “Kubrick in Color“, filmmaker Marc Anthony Figueras captured how the iconic director used very specific colors to influence a scene, portray a character and evoke a particular emotion from viewers. Figueras got this idea after watching “Red” by Rishi Kaneria. Rishi Kaneria put together a brilliant supercut based completely around […]

Taras Maksimuk wanted to see what would happen if he boiled a working iPhone 6s in melted blue crayons.

Batman (Ben Affleck) is “too old to die young” in the fourth trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The trailer also gives some more explanation about why Batman wants to v Superman (Henry Cavill) in the first place. It also gives new glimpses at Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. […]

When the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was replaced in 2013, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) needed a plan to responsibly disassemble and dismantle the older version of the span while taking the environment into account. Wired created a clever animation demonstrating how this tremendous task will be undertaken. The Bay […]

On a recent appearance on the television show Neo Magazin Royale, the German hip hop band Fettes Brot performed their 1996 hit song “Jein” along with a “Geekchester” band playing old computer equipment. We were at NEO MAGAZINE ROYALE guest we have brought something! Yes and no on electronic waste: 16x 3.5 “floppy drives 3x […]

Great Big Story paid a visit to the famous “Okunoshima Rabbit Island” in Japan to learn why so many feral bunnies have made the beautiful, balmy isle their forever home and why they are as friendly as they are. Imagine an island filled only with rabbits. Okunoshima is a small island in Japan’s Inland Sea. […]

In advance of the mid-season premiere on February 14, 2016, Paul Gulyas of the mobile television trivia game

Flapit is a physical counter that displays a company’s social media followers and ratings across multiple platforms. The device connects to popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp, and the company has also released an API to allow developers to use it to display whatever information they would like. photos via Flapit Thanks Shelby DeNike!

In December of 2015, we wrote about musician Cooper Carter and how he played all 31 parts of composer John Williams‘ classic Star Wars theme song on guitar by himself. Cooper recently released a new video that shows him playing only the brass section of the iconic Star Wars theme song. Carter’s cover is available […]

In 2014 mathematician and comedian Matt Parker led a team that arranged 10,000 dominoes into a working computer circuit capable of performing basic addition. The finished system takes two four-digit binary numbers and outputs their five-digit binary sum. In the video, Parker demonstrates the different functions of the circuits with smaller models. Parker also appeared […]

The prologue for the highly-anticipated upcoming film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tells a bewitching tale through hand-crafted tunnel book animation and gorgeous narration by Charles Dance, of how zombies came exist in Regency London. The prologue was created by The Mill, the production company behind the beautiful video for “Wide Open” by The Chemical […]

Industrial Light & Magic has shared a breakdown of the amazing visual effects work that their global team contributed to Brad Bird‘s 2015 science-fiction mystery adventure film, Tomorrowland. As the first-ever film finished and released in 4K high dynamic range, the work on the film presented numerous challenges not the least of which was creating […]

Mashable Watercooler presents The Westhamster Hamster Show The Westhamster Show is here to celebrate the best of the most lovely creatures around: hamsters. Prepare yourself for an exciting show that will keep you on your feet.

The daring Silvio Sabba recently set a RecordSetter world record for successfully performing a pistol squat while carefully standing on top of a 36-story Jenga tower. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

“Noisy Furniture” is an amusing fake movie trailer, written and directed Brooklyn-based comedian and composer Daniel Koren, about a paranoid man and furniture that goes bump in the night. Trying to solve the biggest mystery of them all.

Puzzle maker Tony Fisher created a gigantic fully functional Rubik’s Cube that measures 1.56m on each edge. via Digg

In the latest of their wonderful whiteboard videos, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually offer up a quick but fairly comprehensive history of the umlaut and its colorful misuse, particularly in the English language. But when we say umlaut we generally aren’t talking about the historical sound change process, but about […]

[Einstein’s] biggest blunder is thinking he made a blunder. That’s how smart he was. That’s badass smart. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the significance of gravitational waves and how they were detected during an appearance on the Anthony Cumia Show just hours after the discovery was announced on February 11, 2016.

A video posted by Christoph Niemann (@abstractsunday) on Jan 27, 2016 at 9:35am PST CHOMP is an interactive iOS app by illustrator and author Christoph Niemann that combines his “playful, humorous, and lovingly hand-drawn animations with live video.” Christoph’s fun new app is available to purchase at the iTunes Store. Repost from @billyboystergiou : great […]

Digg presents: The Most Satisfying Video In The World Have you ever seen something that makes your skin tingle and for some unknown reason provides you with a sense of unbridled peace and happiness? Gears working in perfect synchronization, a cake frosted with absolute precision, marbles rolling so smoothly it hurts. Something that is just…satisfying? […]

The Etsy shop Que Interesante has created a clever collection of chemical element labels to stick on crayons to help kids learn the periodic table while they draw. A fun and creative way to learn. Clear and colored crayon labels are available to purchase on Etsy. images via QueInteresante via Best of Etsy, My Modern […]

Over the course of a year a prankster son randomly threw eggs to his unsuspecting mother, who would almost always impressively catch them while shouting “Noooooooooo!” via reddit

Venture capitalist, company advisor, entrepreneur and Shark Tank investor Chris Sacca is known for wearing distinctly decorated cowboy shirts wherever he goes. Now some of these bespoke shirts are available for purchase through the aptly named Sacca Shirts. Comedienne Amy Schumer even sported a Sacca Shirt in the 2016 Bud Light Super Bowl ad. Hell […]

Owenergy Studios created a supercut showing how brothers Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson frequently say the same lines in their movies.

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

Smithsonian Channel shows how a bumble bee dislodges pollen from a flower in a slow motion video. Buzz pollination is a special technique for dislodging pollen from certain types of plants – and bumble bees are among the few species of bee capable of doing it.

Vox explores how the human heart became a popluar symbol representing love.

In the second episode of the wonderfully informative series “Simon’s Cat Logic“, illustrator Simon Toland reminisces about his childhood cat while behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow explains how felines perceive and express themselves when it comes to the question of falling in love. Unfortunately cats aren’t really that romantic so it’s quite a contrast to the Simon’s […]

Unofficial Map: “Barcelona Tourist Guide” Metro Map Designer Cameron Booth has put together The Transit Map Hall of Shame, an online collection of some of the worst public transit system maps in the world. Booth rates transit map quality on his transit map focused Tumblr and takes submissions of maps from readers. Official Map: Buffalo, New […]

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have developed soft robotic grippers gentle enough to lift an egg without cracking it. The silicone grippers use electroadhesion and can be scaled up for much larger objects. Soft electronics are changing the way robots can touch. EPFL Scientists have developed a new soft robotic gripper — […]

During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Bob Odenkirk provided a somewhat imprecise one minute recap of Better Call Saul season one. Season two begins February 15th on AMC.

NASA has released a map of a large section of the Sputnik Planum region of Pluto using a colorful key to show the dwarf planet’s diverse geology. The map section covers 1,290 miles from top to bottom and highlights more than two dozen distinct terrains, defined by their texture and morphology. Data for the map […]

A photo posted by Andrea De La Ossa (@radicandrea) on Jan 3, 2016 at 2:56pm PST Talented artist Andrea De La Ossa transforms herself into all sorts of different pop culture characters and unique monsters with her overabundance of skill and Mehron makeup. Andrea’s entire collection of cosplay body paint photos are available to view […]

Barcelona-based illustrator and architect Federico Babina has created Interheroes, an illustrated look at the stylish interiors found in popular superhero homes. Prints of Federico‘s wonderful artwork is currently available to purchase from Society6. images via Federico Babina

A Tesla electric car saves drivers from a desolate future in the independent short film “Not a Dream” by the Freise Brothers. The car rolls into a landscape full of the remnants of fossil fuel use over the sounds of Nikola Tesla praising the potential of electric energy. Although Tesla Motors was not involved in the […]

In “Controlled Chaos: Puppy Baby Monkey” by Make:, host Caleb Kraft demonstrates how to make a puppy monkey baby costume for his pug. The costume is based on a bizarre looking creature from weird Mountain Dew Kickstart commercial that aired during Super Bowl 50. images via Make:

Bad Lip Reading is back once again and this time they released “Not the Future,” a hilarious extended Star Wars lyric video for a short song featured in their Empire Strikes Back parody. The song is available to purchase on iTunes and Amazon. We previously wrote about their awesome Star Wars music video parody titled, […]

Cooked is a new Netflix documentary series that features food guru Michael Pollan, who examines the origins of the home-cooked meal and learns how the process of cooking itself forged traditions, expressed feelings and created long-lasting memories. The series premieres on February 19, 2016. Explored through the lenses of the four natural elements – fire, […]

Staff and students at Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Institute of Textiles and Clothing created the iDummy, a smart mannequin that quickly changes to a large range of different clothing sizes and shapes with a “user-friendly GUI” computer program. The project was led by Dr Allan Chan Chee-kooi, who gathered worldwide measurement data using a 3D […]

“Off Grid“, the new track by Israeli musician Kutiman (previously), is an instrumental music video created using short samples of unrelated psychedelic jazz performances found on YouTube. The song builds from short loops that get longer as the song progresses. This a video album composed entirely of videos which I found on YouTube. No additional […]

In the teaser for season three of the highly-acclaimed series Silicon Valley, the normally introverted Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) attempts to portray himself as Pied Piper CEO by putting on a suit and a hopeful air of confidence. Unfortunately, Richard literally falls flat on his face. Silicon Valley premieres April 24, 2016. image via Silicon […]

Designer Arthur Sacek built an elaborate LEGO machine that folds and launches beautiful paper airplanes for the new Arrow Electronics campaign Five Years Out. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing how it was created. The workings of the bicycle made way for the first flying machine. A spaceship was built on the ground piece by piece before […]

“Fingerprints“, a new ad for the Android campaign “Be Together. Not the Same.” created by imaginative filmmaker PES (previously), features a wonderfully tiny world in which tiny fingertip people live their lives in such diverse environments as a subway, a beauty parlor, a locker room, a wrestling match and even on an airplane where the […]

A chameleon robot developed by a team at Wuhan University in China led by Guoping Wang quickly changes color to blend in with different backgrounds. The robot uses plasmonic panels that react to light differently when an electric field is applied. The panels respond to data from light sensors on the robot that detect the […]

Right Shears are a very cleverly designed unique pair scissors that offer greater stability and easier reach with right angled blades that run parallel to the surface that’s being cut. The idea came to the founder when he was cutting mesh for a project with his father-in-law. 2014 September – Idea conception – My father-in-law […]

Magician and cyber illusionist Marco Tempest performed an illusion with 24 autonomous quadcopter drones designed by Rhizomatiks Research in Tokyo. Tempest works with Magic Lab in New York City to integrate new technology into magic. via Digg

Bad Girl Scout Cookies by Gemma Correll via Gemma Correll

image via LIGO Laboraties Gravitational waves as predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 have been detected by the LIGO observatories in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanaford, Washington for the first time. The detected waves were caused by two black holes merging into one larger black hole, as explained by LIGO Executive Director David Reitze during a press conference […]

Compound Interest breaks down the chemistry of Camembert cheese in their latest explainer graphic. The creaminess of camembert is bested by few other cheeses – but it also has a strong smell to rival blue cheeses that reminds you of its presence in your fridge! Additionally, unlike many other cheeses, as it’s left for longer […]

Sled Legs are a unique pair of snow sleds that attach to the front each leg to slide down hills. They are currently raising money to produce Sled Legs through an Indiegogo campaign. We took the simple snow sled and made it wearable! Don’t carry your sled, wear it! With Sled Legs, you simply run […]