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With Thanksgiving just one week away, many people are flocking to their local grocery store to purchase the mounds of ingredients needed to prepare their holiday dinner. One such ingredient however, can often stop shoppers in their tracks – the sweet potato or is it a yam? In order to clarify, Eva Hill of the […]

WaterAid is asking people to #GiveAShit by creating and sharing their own customized poop emoji with an app to raise awareness of global sanitation issues. The charity works to bring clean water and sanitary toilets to the poorest countries in the world. Users can download the iOS version of the app now and Android users […]

Sweetly Brooklyn is an artisanal bakery that crafts small batches of wonderful cakes and cookies that are made with a balance of creativity, nostalgia and a wonderful sense of humor. They operate out of a commercial kitchen space but hope to have a brick and mortar space sometime soon. In the meanwhile, their yummy goods […]

Toronto-based artist Ray Cincin has created a giant, beautifully illustrated bright blue Octopus from donated ballpoint pens that would have been otherwise discarded. The illustration, per Cincin, is his own “interpretation of an Ernst Von Haeckel octopus lithograph” and took him quite a bit of time to complete. Same general outline of the original, my […]

The Hasbro Toy Company has created “Joy For All“, a furry line of robotic companion cats that are designed to interact with strategically placed sensors. The line was developed with those seniors who may not want the muss, the fuss, the time or in some cases, the capacity to care for a real feline, but […]

Imgur user guitarfarts recently shared a photo featuring a life-size TIE fighter that his friend built in his front yard out of Christmas lights. The creator gave into the festive side of the force and it paid off. image via guitarfarts via Geek Art Gallery, Neatorama

In the latest video by Anglophenia, host Kate Arnell separates fact from fiction as she recounts the British origins and nebulous history of the traditional American Thanksgiving holiday. When you think of what the original Plymouth Colony settlers it would have looked like, you’d think long black coat, high white collars and buckles, lots of […]

A team at MIT has developed an ingestible sensor capable of being swallowed by a patient to monitor their vital signs from within. The sensor monitors specific sound waves generated by a patient’s heart rate and breathing. This solves problems present in traditional monitoring which is primarily done through contact with the skin, and could also […]

Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter face off in a no-weapons, no-magic rap battle. The video is the latest in the Princess Rap Battle series by Whitney Avalon who plays Katniss in the video. Hermione is played by Molly C. Quinn.

During his “Whole Glory” Installation at Milk Gallery from November 12 through November 15, 2015 , renowned ink and fine artist Scott Thompson offered free tattoos of his own design on people’s arms through a hole in the wall without a word being spoken. The tattoos were offered on a lottery basis and the lucky […]

Marvel has released a new trailer for season two of Agent Carter that finds Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) heading to Hollywood for action, romance, and some ass kicking. The second season is currently scheduled to debut on January 5th, 2016 on ABC. image via Agent Carter

“Across the Sky” by Camp4 Collective features Théo Sanson walking a record-setting 500-meter slackline between Castleton Tower and The Rectory rock formations in Castle Valley, Utah on November 15, 2015. via Vimeo Staff Picks

The Woodcreek Faction removed all the actual debating from the second Democratic Presidential resulting in a bizarre display of awkward silence.

The “Engineer Guy” Bill Hammack breaks down the design of the air restriction mechanism inside a Nerf N-Strike Elite Triad EX-3 Blaster that limits the toy to only firing one dart at a time regardless of which of the three barrels are loaded. Hammack’s associate Steve Kranz gives a similar explanation of the Triad as well as examining […]

Comic Book Resources has released an amusing gag reel for the Marvel superhero film Ant-Man. Members of the cast share their comical dance moves and have plenty of laughs while on the set.

Dumb Drum has created a fantastic low-budget shot-for-shot remake of the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They also released a side-by-side comparison with the original trailer for reference. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Universal Pictures has released the first official trailer for The Huntsman: Winter’s War, the upcoming dark sequel to the 2012 dark fantasy action-adventure film Snow White and the Huntsman. The new movie, directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, will reveal the dangerous and intertwined fates of Eric, the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) and the evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize […]

Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Zoolander 2, a sequel to the 2001 comedy film Zoolander directed by and starring Ben Stiller. In the new trailer, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel McDonald (Owen Wilson) are “Old and Lame” and Justin Bieber gets gunned down. Zoolander 2 is currently scheduled to release in […]

When design expert Natasha Jen of Pentagram was approached by the Heritage Ball to create the invitations for their annual gala, she and her team were determined to create something both symbolic of New York architecture and unusual in its format. The result was the ingenious blue and white dynamic font called Herita-Geo. Expanding and […]

Australian Design and Art Director Dominic Bahmann has posted a number of different scenes and illustrations that he either cleverly crafted or completed with the addition of easily had household items. Many of Bahmann’s prints are available for purchase through his online store. In 2013 I started my own creative challenge called ‘Stop, Think, Make’. […]

A commercial parody by We The Internet offers Alternative Viewpoint-Cancelling Headphones for anyone who wants to drown out the opinions of people they don’t agree with. via reddit

In several of her wonderful sculptural series, British artist Justine Smith has made strong use of different currency from all around the world in order to create multi-faceted art that carries a powerful statement. Whether it’s guns wrapped in U.S. dollar bills, grenades wrapped in Iranian rials or delicate flowers under glass fashioned from English […]

Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis have launched Starship Industries, a new company with the goal of creating autonomous delivery robots to implement what they call in a press release, “three zeroes – zero cost, zero waiting time and zero environmental impact.” The robots are emissions free and can operate cheaply, eliminating the need for delivery fees. Their current […]

Webcomic artist and animation student Miyuli of “Hearts for Sale” and “Lost Nightmare“, illustrated her own cat in the varying styles of different comics and cartoons. Some of the more notable sketches are of Miyuli’s cat as Cat in the Hat, Garfield, Pusheen and of course, the ever-hungry Simon’s Cat. via DesignTaxi

Motus is a unique digital wireless musical instrument that converts movement to sound. The device pairs with software that processes data from a number of different sensors that can be mapped to specific instruments, behaviors, and sounds. The Motus can be used on its own or attached to a traditional instrument to add sounds or […]

This past September and October, photographer Markus Killi captured absolutely breathtaking footage of the astonishing colors of the befamed Northern Lights as seen from the mountains of Ylläs, Lapland, Finland. Killi also put together a beautiful time-lapse of the Aurora Borealis and set it to a soundtrack of Low Horizon by Kai Engel. via Boing […]

In episode 24 of the very funny video series “You Suck at Cooking“, the deadpan host demonstrated his very simple recipe for cold brew coffee, hilariously killing time while he waited for the mixture to macerate. The coldest, brewest, coffeest, coffee that's every been coffeed. YSAC, episode 24https://t.co/6qIwH37oIB pic.twitter.com/3ii7C1fQWn — You Suck at Cooking (@Yousuckatcookin) […]

Lehigh Pizza in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has created a Pay it Forward Pizza program through which customers can buy a slice of pizza for someone in need. Customers pay $2 and are given a post-it note they can stick somewhere in the restaurant and include a note to the recipient. The post-it can then be redeemed […]

Think Geek has put an amusing modern retro spin on the most well know tradition of Chanukah with an 8-bit styled battery powered LED menorah that makes it easy to light each night’s light with the simple push of a button. t has LED lights inside the EVA foam candles, each of which flickers on […]

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created “Star Wars – Amputations,” a fantastic supercut video of Star Wars characters getting their limbs sliced and shot off by lightsabers, blasters, and more.

Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot, whose custom work we have written about in the past, is back with a new collection of old thrift store paintings that he has added pop culture movie characters to. Prints of Dave‘s custom paintings are available to purchase online from Etsy. images via Dave Pollot submitted via Laughing […]

The dancing Matt Harding of “Where the Hell is Matt” fame has created a new project called “Where the Heck is Matt?“. The project is two-fold, the first part involves users submitting a dancing video to cast votes as to where Harding should travel next. Hold a sign with your location written on it. Keep […]

Creatives at the Dayton, Ohio-based Nucleus CoShare, Indigo Life Media, and Cincinnati-based Focus Peak Media recently teamed up to represent the growing city of Dayton in their fun new music video remix of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ catchy song “Downtown.” Their remix of “Downtown” is available to download in MP3 format on SoundCloud. 2 months, […]

On a recent episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert amusingly stepped in to perform a simple kitty trick when the camera-shy felines of Acro-Cats got a touch of stage fright. Shyness aside, the Chicago-based Acro-Cats rescues adoptable cats, trains them and then seeks out forever homes for each kitty. The group is currently […]

67-year old artist Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent the last 37 years sketching and chronicling the amazing, if not sometimes elusive, underground mosaic art of the New York City subway system and has no plans of stopping anytime soon. In his self-published book, “Silver Connections” Coppola talks about the many hidden treasures of Manhattan Island […]

Ken Burns and his team at the Akron, Ohio-based open source hardware company, TinyCircuits, have created a retro tiny playable game cabinet that they appropriately dubbed the Tiny Arcade. The awesome little functioning arcade fits in the palm of your hands and allows you to “relive the golden age of video games”. The team at […]

The Loud Mini is a compact bicycle horn designed to sound exactly like a car horn to keep cyclists safe. The first iteration of the design, the Loud Classic, was launched through a successful Kickstarter campaign, so the designers have returned to the platform to fund their new model. Backers can claim branded stickers and […]

Youtuber Eric Stran has created a compilation video of classic Star Wars toy commercials from 1977. They placed the Kenner toy commercials in the same order as the scenes from the original film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. via Geek Tyrant

Conan O’Brien and his assistant Sona Movsesian visit a marketplace in Armenia while filming a special episode of Conan in the country. Movsesian translates for O’Brien as he clowns around with vendors, buys apricots, and even tries “Armenian Viagra.”

Kit is a new online product recommendation community inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog. Users create lists of products called “kits” around a common theme like travel, music, or kitchen gadgets and recommend them with links to where they are available. Other users can then discuss the products in the comments of each individual item. […]

British inventor Colin Furze recently built an amazing underground apocalyptic bunker in his backyard that he filled with plenty of gizmos, gadgets, survival items, and entertainment. Colin also shared the four-part build process of his impressive bunker on YouTube.

LEGO has commissioned French advertising firm Brand Station to create specially made pair of slippers with extra padding to protect feet from painfully stepping on LEGO bricks. Brand Station made 1,500 pairs that will be given away at random to customers who fill out a Christmas wish list on the LEGO France website. photos via Piwee […]

Movie characters swing their lightsaber around while watching the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer in a new comedy short by Funny or Die. They feature scenes from movies like American Pie, There’s Something About Mary, and more. Here is the original trailer for reference:

When a young boy in Paris voice his concerns to Le Petit Journal reporter Yann Barthes about having to leave their home because of the bad guys who are really, really mean, his father stepped in to assure his son that they would not have to move. The father then said that France was their […]

WorldWideInterweb has created “Movie Hunger Games”, a ravenous supercut of people eating food in movies, set to the classic “Weird Al” Yankovic song “Eat It”.

La Tour des Cedres is a planned high-rise “vertical forest” building in Lausanne, Switzerland that will house human residents and more than 100 trees. The design by architect Stefano Boeri which uses a similar concept of tree integration as his Bosco Verticale building in Milan, Italy. The project is a collaboration between Studio Laura Gatti and BuroHappold Engineering and will […]

When Joseph Romeo‘s wife surprised him with a pair of EnChroma glasses, he could barely contain his excitement. Once the glasses were on, Romeo, who had been colorblind for over 24 years, joyously described each and every color he was seeing around him. My wife surprised me with EnChroma glasses. Due to a rare condition […]

Smosh Games gives their honest trailer treatment to the Borderlands video game series. From the developer of some of the worst franchise reboots the world has ever known comes the reason gearbox is still allowed to make video games.

HouseholdHacker shares 10 super handy keyboard shortcuts for Mac (here’s the Windows version).

Sarah Fay and Justin Colt of gift wrapping paper start-up, Gift Couture, the artists behind both the stackable cheeseburger and steak wrapping paper, have this time turned their sights to a really yummy looking New York City pizza. The paper set inside a traditional pizza box for the perfect delivery of gifts. In order to […]