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In their latest Mini Food video, Miniature Space shows how to prepare tiny dumplings in a tiny kitchen.

Kinetic Blocks is a pin-based shape display capable of manipulating objects and building structures. The display was created by the MIT Tangible Media Group led by professor Hiroshi Ishii, and it can be used in a number of ways demonstrated in a paper published by the group. Besides its display elements, the device can also be used […]

In the most recent episode of the wonderfully animated series Blank on Blank, the famously reclusive Patty Hearst opened up to veteran journalist Lawrence Grobel in 1976 about being kidnapped, her experience with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the abuse she suffered under the hands of her captors and how she held on to the hope […]

AirPaper is a new online service that promises to “make painful things surprisingly easy.” The first painful thing they’re tackling is helping people cancel their Comcast service in under five minutes for just five dollars. Users simply provide the relevant data to AirPaper who then complete the tedious process of dealing with a cable company. The […]

SUMER is a beautiful futuristic 3D animated short film, directed by Álvaro García, set on a bleak Earth about a determined young boy who finds something amazing that could change everyone’s lives. The short movie has been showcased at over 50 film festivals and acquired quite a few awards along the way. For unknown reasons, […]

The inventive Dave Hax demonstrates how to make a homemade battery using copper coins, vinegar, foil, and cardboard in his most recent video tutorial. This clever DIY project makes total cents. I had enough energy to power an LED with mine and also a TV remote! Really simple science project and easy to do yourself.

Motion artist Derek Hugger has created “Colibri“, a breathtaking hand-cranked kinetic sculpture that painstakingly captures the delicate motions of a hummingbird as it feeds at a flower. Hugger said that of all his sculptures, Colibri was the most complex. Every element of motion has been completely mechanized, from the beating wings to the flaring tail. […]

In “Why Jaywalking Is a Crime” host Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything explains the real reason jaywalking is a crime and how streets went from public shared spaces to the exclusive domain of automobiles.

Filmmaker Devin Graham and a bunch of his friends set up an exciting Slip ‘N Slide that wrapped all of the way around a lawnmower and took turns being spun in circles across the slippery, soapy plastic. All of their footage was filmed using an LG V10 smartphone in 4K video resolution. What happens when […]

Ping pong balls spin and explode as they are filled with propane gas and ignited by The Backyard Scientist in his latest video. The Backyard Scientist also attached propellers to one of the balls to try to generate lift with the spin.

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis digs up ten movies that have important, hidden post-credits scenes that you may have missed. Bill Murray recites one of his classic lines from Caddyshack at the end of Zombieland, Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) blow up a building at the end of […]

Filmmaker Harrisonicus has combined every image from the collection of the NASA Apollo mission photographs recently uploaded to Flickr into a stop-motion-style video simply titled “Apollo Missions.” The video features the songs “Lift Motif” by Kevin MacLeod and “Start Start” by Built By Snow. via Vimeo Staff Picks

A dubious little English bulldog who was a bit confused about getting his daily exercise on the family treadmill, could only offer a perfunctory, halfhearted effort to go the extra mile on the machine. Another English bulldog confidently demonstrates how walking on the treadmill is really done.

Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim television series Robot Chicken returns to the DC Universe for a third time in a new trailer released at New York Comic Con for their DC Comics crossover, Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship. It is set to air on Adult Swim Sunday, October 18th, 2015.

Owenergy Studios, a YouTube channel dedicated entirely to Owen Wilson, has created a supercut of Owen Wilson whispering in movies.

Last night Stephen Colbert shared some the TED talks that did not make the cut with the debut of the new segement “RejecTED” on The Late Show.

Pablo Fernández Eyre takes a look at camera dolly “push ins” used by Quentin Tarantino in his films.

“Much A-Doo About Poo” is an episode of the PBS Digital Studios series Gross Science that focuses on how poop and other waste is converted to electricity and fertilizer through anaerobic digestion.

The solidLUUV is an all-in-one three-axis stabilizer that can accommodate a variety of cameras and smartphones. The solidLUUV can also pair with the ultraLUUV electronic three-axis stabilizer for even smoother video. The device is designed with ease of use in mind so that anyone can simply attach their camera and shoot smoother video than traditional […]

Director Danny Madden‘s company Ornana Films has created a richly colored animated video for “The Girl in the Yellow Dress”, the second single by legendary guitarist David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd) off his new album “Rattle That Lock“. Ornana also generously provided incredible stills from the video. images via Ornana Films

A beautifully bright-eyed cockatoo named Harley gleefully shows off his unique talent for knocking down towers of plastic cups exerting any amount of effort. It does appear, however, that Harley has been practicing his tower-tumbling skills for quite a while now. via Tastefully Offensive

In his incredibly clever cartoon “Anatomy of Generations“, illustrator John Atkinson of Wrong Hands accurately captured the drastic differences between Baby Boomers, Gen X-ers and Millenials using just a few, very choice words. image by Wrong Hands

In a recent NASA video, Commander Scott Kelly who is spending a year on the International Space Station adds food coloring and pieces of an effervescent tablet to a floating ball of water. The results are captured in beautiful 4K video taken with the station’s on board RED Epic Dragon camera.

Latvian rolling pin purveyor Ruta Rita of DoughRoller is currently offering an adorable laser-engraved rolling pin to imprint skull designs into dough for Halloween-themed cookies, pastries, and other dough-based creations with ease. DoughRoller also offers other laser-engraved pins with a variety of playful and elegant themes. Get ready for Halloween and surprise your family and […]

io9 made a video featuring some of the best cosplay they saw during last weekend’s New York Comic Con.

On the latest episode of DIY Prop Shop on Break’s AWE me channel, host Dustin McLean demonstrates how to make a low-budget version of the flux capacitor from Back to the Future. McLean uses a carboard box, spray paint, spark plug cables, rope lights, and more to make Doc Brown‘s essential time machine component come […]

photo by Nicholas Eckhart Former Kmart employee Mark Davis, who worked in customer service at the Naperville, Illinois store, recently uploaded “Attention Kmart Shoppers“, his fairly extensive collection of Kmart in-store music, onto Internet Archive for all to enjoy. The collection includes admittedly worn announcements and pre-recorded music that was played between the years of […]

Bowler Michael Long picks up a spare with a striking trick shot where he releases one rapidly spinning ball that creeps down the lane around two specially placed pins before throwing another ball at regular speed to knock down eight of the 10 pins. via Yababoon, Neatorama

A very drowsy meerkat does her very best to remain awake while sitting in a basket surrounded by comfy, plushy versions of herself, adorably without much success. via Tastefully Offensive

“Ground Control” is a short video by director of photography Tom Kucy that brings to life some of the photographs taken by Apollo astronauts during their missions using 3D graphic effects. A new high-resolution collection of those photographs was recently uploaded to Flickr. via PetaPixel

British artist Kerry Hughes has created “Pneumatic Anatomy“, a replica of the human respiratory and digestive systems playfully created from intricately tied and twisted balloons that are under threat to be collapsed with just the single swipe of a scalpel. photos by Aaron Tilley via Lustik

Jose Romussi, a Chilean artist based out of Berlin, Germany, offers an alternative perspective of beauty with his provocative series “Anti-Serie“. In the series, Romussi embroidered gorgeously chaotic patterns onto fashion photos, creating fascinating results. Rosmussi talks about his projects and his motivation on his Facebook page. My work is a constant search to be […]

In their most recent video, pranksters Jack Vale and Rahat Hussein show off some of the fails that they ran into while trying to confuse fast food drive-thru employees by secretly switching places in the driver’s seat. We previously wrote about part one and part two of their funny prank.

YouTuber Rina Takei has documented over the course of the past 8 months, how her black cat named Guinness has reacted to the window washers who come to clean on a fairly regular basis at her high-rise building. In February of 2015, Guinness was curious about the man dangling in front of the window. In […]

Los Angeles-based writer and cartoonist Patrick McCarthy spent two months creating “Stewie Potter,” a magical animated parody of Family Guy and Harry Potter. Episode one of McCarthy’s new parody series follows Stewie Griffin as he uses a device to transports himself and Brian into the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. According to Patrick, episode […]

FoxType is an online tool that rates the politeness of written text and recommends more polite options when necessary. The tool rates the politeness of the text on a 0 to 100 scale as well as indicating whether it is “Impolite,” “Neutral,” or “Polite.” There is also a Gmail plugin version of the tool that […]

StoryCorps, the amazing oral history project that provides recording booths for people to tell their own life stories, has animated “The Saint of Dry Creek“, an incredibly poignant first-person narrative in which a gay man named Patrick Haggerty recalls a valuable lesson that his dairy farmer father in rural Washington state taught to him about […]

Stephen Colbert recently debuted his extreme surgically assisted weight loss option, the Esophagorge, during an episode of The Late Show. The parody device is a response to the very real AspireAssist, a tube that is inserted through the skin into a patient’s stomach to allow them to empty the undigested contents.

Syfy has released the first trailer for Hunters, an upcoming drama series about a secret government unit that is dedicated to fighting against unknown alien terrorists. The 13-part series is currently scheduled to premiere in April 2016. From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘The Terminator‘ trilogy) and Natalie Chaidez (‘12 Monkeys,’ ‘Heroes‘), […]

In collaboration with HRL Laboratories and Caltech, Boeing has developed a strong and resilient material called Microlattice whose structure is made up of 99.99% air, making it the lightest material ever made. A piece of Microlattice is so light that it can rest on top of a dandelion, and Boeing hopes to use the material to make lighter and more […]

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis shares ten movie outtakes that ended up making it into the final version of the films. They feature the scene from Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope where Luke excitedly screams out “Carrie!” to Princess Leia after returning from destroying the Death Star, the […]

Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell condense the entire Indiana Jones trilogy into 90 seconds with their latest video for Burger Fiction.

Adventures in Cardboard is a summer camp in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that focuses on letting kids build and battle with cardboard. Campers are led by professional artists and teachers to learn how to build armor, weapons, and even buildings with simple wood and cardboard construction that all lead up to intense battles. via Pleated […]

The Los Angeles-based restaurant, Faith & Flower, has created a tasty and secret collection of limited-time desserts to their menu that are based on popular vehicles and characters from the Star Wars films. Our chocolate Millenium Falcon: It's the bonbon that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. A photo posted by Faith […]

ABC News recently shared never-before-seen outtakes of Robin Williams as Genie in Disney‘s 1992 animated film, Aladdin. The outtakes are currently featured on the Digital HD release of the movie and will also be available to view in the upcoming Blu-Ray release of Aladdin coming out on October 13th, 2015.

Eclectic Method presents a rockin’ remix of Back To The Future.

Stephen Colbert shares some absurd “life hacks” on the new “Life Hacked” segment of The Late Show.

They Might Be Giants has released “Black Ops” (Alternate Version), the new music video compiled by Rolf Conant, that was created for week 40 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series. A collage slideshow video dedicated to all dystopian modernists. Here’s the original version of “Black Ops” from 2013.

To prepare players for the upcoming release of the video game Fallout 4 on November 10, 2105, Bethesda has released “Intelligence”, the fifth video from their new 1950s style animated educational video series covering the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes used in the game. Here are the previous videos on “Strength”, “Perception”, “Endurance” and “Charisma”. Following total […]

BuzzFeedVideo takes a look at the history of women’s eyewear from the 1930s to present-day. Previously they explored the history of men’s eyewear.