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Small objects are being moved and manipulated by sound wave levitation controlled by holograms that act as a tractor beam in a video as part of a study by published in Nature. The study was done by Asier Marzo, Bruce Drinkwater and Sriram Subramanian who used an array of speakers to project sound waves around a tiny […]

James Ware recently used some James Bond techniques to crash the Spectre world premiere at Royal Albert Hall in London on October 26, 2015 and filmed himself doing so. Here’s how I managed to crash the Spectre Royal World Premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 26th October and then the after […]

Netflix has released the first trailer for The Ridiculous 6, an upcoming star-studded comedy western film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. The western satire will star Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Norm MacDonald, and many more. It is set to premiere on Netflix on December 11th, […]

?????( '?' )? pic.twitter.com/XJ5vUNgJoM — ???? (@kairi1402) October 22, 2015 The adorable guinea pigs of the Ueno Children’s Zoo in Tokyo, Japan know that it’s time to rush home when they hear the dinner bell ringing. Each fuzzy rodent takes his/her place in an orderly line and enters one-by-one onto a short wooden boardwalk that […]

A silly yellow Lab named Stella kept up her yearly tradition of repeatedly chasing her beloved ball right into a pile of crisp, freshly raked autumn leaves. Stella’s human Jody Hartman humorously stated “It’s that time of year again. Leaves are on the ground, and Stella is… in them.” via Daily Picks and Flicks

“Why Wine Snobs Are Faking It” is a clip from the TruTV series Adam Ruins Everything in which host Adam Conover breaks down the myth of fancy wines and encourages people to just drink what they like. The clip features actor John Michael Higgins as a snooty sommelier who finds himself subjected to a series of “wine […]

A beautiful rescued black cat in Bucharest, Romania named Luna sang a lovely duet about herself with Razvan Alexandru, her talented human, who accompanied them both on guitar. via Tastefully Offensive

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the story of Sam Raimi‘s 1992 horror comedy film, Army of Darkness, as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton.

Artist and engineer Bob Partington recently partnered with the YouTube channel Field Day to build the world’s slowest Rube Goldberg machine. The contraption sends a golf ball from one place to another using things like a molasses river, melting popsicles, and even growing grass over the course of six weeks from start to finish. Partington […]

“The Wild West of Drone Racing” is a short documentary by The Atlantic that explores the sport of first-person-view (FPV) drone racing. The main subject of the documentary is Dale “Hiway” Settle, a drone hobbyist and FPVracer who demonstrates his drone and talks about the sport. The video also features John Franklin who co-founded DroneShield, a company […]

Disney•Pixar has created a fantastic new video where the emotions (Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness) from their 2015 animated film, Inside Out, watch and react to the third official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Here’s the original Force Awakens trailer for reference:

A super-fit daredevil bulldog named Harley really likes going out on her skateboard for a ride around the neighborhood, so much that she gets incredibly possessive when her human tries to take her board away from her, even if it’s just for a moment. Harley filmed sideways. via reddit

Patrick Lee, a manager at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco explains how they keep their highly intelligent and inquisitive octopi engaged, entertained and busy so that they don’t get bored and destructive, much like children on a long road trip. We try to think creatively on a daily […]

In honor of National Black Cat Day in the UK, feline advocate Chris Poole, human to the amazing Cole & Marmalade, narrates a whiteboard illustrated video that explains the dark history of black cats, specifically how they were worshipped as gods until the Middle Ages associated the dark felines with witchcraft. It was during the […]

Filmmaker Rishi Kaneria has created “Why Props Matter“, an impressive supercut of a great many films that celebrate the incredible power that props lend to the identity of a film, whether big or small, shiny or dull, overt or subtle. Great props can transcend the boundaries of the films they are in and become legendary […]

Artist Keren Rosen of Dings & Doodles has created an ongoing collection of cute illustrations that portray the literal meanings of all sorts of well-known idioms. Prints of Keren’s literal idioms are available to purchase online from her Etsy store. images via Dings & Doodles – Keren Rosen via Bored Panda

A group of 61 skydivers in wingsuits set a new world record for the largest aerial formation over the Skydive Perris facility in Perris, California. A sensational video shared by Michael Watanabe captures the divers as they assemble into their formation before breaking apart to land. via The Big Story

“Open-Hearted Doorman” is a touching animation based on a New York Times article by Julie Margaret Hogben that tells the story of the love between a kindhearted doorman named Guzim and the young woman after whom he looked for years, supporting her through bad dates and an unexpected pregnancy with love and dignity, despite the […]

In a new animated short by Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly, author George R.R. Martin sets the record straight for people who think that he throughly enjoys killing off main characters in his books. George RR Martin is basically the modern equivalent of Jack the Ripper, except he keeps his homicidal tendencies limited to literature (AS […]

“Huge Basketball Shorts” is an absurd music video by Eric Fensler about a young man’s love of oversized athletic wear. via The World’s Best Ever

Medley Weaver has created a wonderful, modern Star Wars: The Force Awaken-style trailer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He used footage and audio from the original trilogy and music from the new Force Awakens trailer to really bring it to life. via io9

A compassionate photographer named Darius Sa rescued a young fawn who had been abandoned by her mother in his backyard due to a broken leg and an inability to keep up. Sa nursed the little deer back to health and made her part of the family – one of Sa’s dogs particularly loved her. When […]

Fred Birchal has created a series of stylized illustrations that depict iconic buildings from popular movies and television shows. The firehouse from Ghostbusters and the White’s family home from Breaking Bad are a couple of the memorable buildings drawn by Birchal. The entire collection is available to view (part 1 and 2) on his portfolio […]

“Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure” is a thrilling musical about a red ball named Biisuke that has to rescue his two brothers Biita and Biigoro from an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine enemy camp. via reddit

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to the 2015 Disney•Pixar emotional hit Inside Out. Relive Pixar’s emotional roller coaster that made adults cry and made kids wonder what the heck was happening – Inside Out!

“First Person To Run A Marathon Without Talking About It” is a comedy sketch by Above Average about the first woman in history to run a marathon without telling anyone about it or posting about it on social media.

“When are you dead?” by the New Scientist series Explanimator gives a simple animated explanation of how doctors determine when a person is truly dead. The line between life and death isn’t as clear as you might think. The brain can live on without the body. The body can live on without the brain. So, when exactly are you […]

Self-taught sushi chef Davy Devaux of Make Sushi demonstrates a very cleverly simple way to easily peel potatoes with maximum efficiency minimum waste. Devaux also included this potato technique in another video with five other handy kitchen tricks. via reddit

In the most recent episode of the wonderfully animated series Blank on Blank, the devastatingly deadpan comedian Bill Murray talks openly about his true motivations in a rare 1988 interview with journalist T.J. English. I act like a jerk sometimes, and that’s sort of what the product is. You get these people who act like, […]

Domino’s has rolled out the new “Domino’s DXP” vehicle specially designed for optimal pizza delivery. The modified Chevy Spark can hold up to 80 pizzas and includes an built-in warming oven. Its design was the result of the Domino’s Ultimate Delivery Vehicle Challenge through Local Motors. The company will be deploying 100 DXP vehicles to […]

In the latest trailer for ‘The X-Files‘ that premiered on Fox during last night’s episode of Gotham, Agents Scully and Mulder are reunited to take on a new case that involves a monster. Per usual, Scully worries while Mulder laughs. Scully: This is dangerous. Mulder: Since when has that ever stopped us before? RT if […]

Professional makeup artist Sarah Coy demonstrated how to create an disconcerting “third-eye inspired” face full of eyes with the tools of her trade in in a one minute time-lapse video by Mode. Want all eyes on you this Halloween? We’ve got a fun makeup look that will do the trick. This third eye-inspired look is […]

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis explains ten real and creepy stories behind some of the most terrifying horror films. Moviegoers have always been captivated by what they don’t understand, and one of the biggest mysteries of human nature is a dark one: why do we kill? While there is a […]

Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell have created a supercut video of some of the most iconic horror movie houses. They feature footage of creepy, memorable homes from The Exorcist (1973), Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980), and more.

The Ohio State Marching Band recently performed a tribute to British music during a football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London. The band created shapes to go along with their amazing music that included The Rolling Stones‘ tongue and lip logo, The Beatles walking across Abbey Road, […]

“Resolutions” is a new sketch from the upcoming Netflix series W/ Bob & David where Paul F. Tompkins announces to his poker buddies that he’s giving up red meat while they each announce their own much more realistic goals. The series, which stars Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, and much of the original cast of Mr. Show, will be released on November […]

“Waiting For That Movie” by the wonderful animator Leigh Lahav is a short cartoon about the emotional roller coaster of waiting a whole year for a highly anticipated movie to be released. That movie you’re waiting for is coming out SO soon! You just have to wait a…. WHOLE YEAR FOR IT?? This is the […]

Two jack-o’-lanterns demonstrate an explosive thermite reaction in a fiery halloween science video by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Host Andy Marmery explains the powerful exothermic reaction between iron oxide and aluminum powders that erupts and sets off a wad of gun cotton in the second pumpkin.

While out on his boat one sunny day, a bearded man was was amusingly caught off guard when an affectionate sea lion jumped aboard and proceeded to cuddle against him for quite a while. Needless to say, the two became instant friends. Here’s my new friend. He jumped aboard back at the bridge. Just hanging […]

A dog named Stryker enthusiastically watches a scene from his favorite movie, Disney’s 2008 Bolt, in a video uploaded to Styker’s YouTube channel in 2009. via reddit

Bellevue, Washington-based artist Bryn Anderson has again turned Nixe, her black 2-year old German Shepherd, into a calavera (sugar skull) for Dia de Los Muertos with non-toxic, vegetable-based face paint. Nixe the original sugar skulleton dog! This is my take on the dia de los Muertos sugar skull!! (Nontoxic organic mineral and vegetable based hypoallergenic […]

Josh Sundquist, a Paralympian and author who lost one of his legs to cancer when he was young, is known for his sense of humor and his fabulous Halloween costumes that specifically address his missing limb. Sundquist once again hit it out of the park with his “anthropomorphic IHOP sign“, the gag being a “classic […]

A baby great horned owl named Oakley sings and dances along with its favorite toy, an owl that plays “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. The videos of Oakley were shared in 2012 by Raptor Rehabber, who cared for the young owl after it was found in the aftermath of a tornado. via Tastefully Offensive

Animal photographer Carli Davidson has again expanded her wonderful “Shake” photo series to include those of the feline species, a project that took over four years to complete. Davidson utilized high-speed photography to capture, frame-by-frame, the unguarded reactions of different cats, including Lil Bub, as they shook off water and groomed themselves against black velvet […]

Inventive parents Cory and Jeremy Newton-Smith created a Mad Max: Fury Road “war rig” for their children Cooper (four) and Ziggy’s (11 months) Halloween costumes. The vehicle seats two and compliments the children’s Max and Furiosa costumes perfectly. The family is currently raising money for the 2016 Boston Marathon CYCLE Kids team to encourage kids to lead active […]

Mashup artist Robert Jones featured a new video by fellow video editor AnimalRobot on his YouTube channel. The video features a somber Kermit the Frog crooning the new Bryan Adams song “You Belong to Me” during a wonderful mashup that combines footage documenting his ill-fated relationship with longtime love Miss Piggy. This week I’m privileged […]

Artist Stefan Pabst and his son teamed up to create an eerie double eye effect with makeup for a Halloween prank. The pair filmed the process as well as the reactions of a number of people to the finished look. Pabst says on his YouTube channel that a follow-up video where they take to the […]

Starry Night In their very first Agar Art Challenge, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recently put a culture challenge to microbiologists around the world. The object of the contest was to create art from different strains of colorful bacteria onto a background agar. Among the submissions received was a recreation of Vincent Van Gogh‘s […]

“Tea with Jean-Luc, episode 1: Ménage à Tea” is a creatively edited short about Star Trek: The Next Generation captain Jean-Luc Picard‘s noted love for, “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” It is the latest video in the TNG Edit series by Jan Van Den Hemel which uses footage from Star Trek: The Next Generation to create interesting new videos.

Artist Aleksander Milov converted a statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine into one of Darth Vader that also serves as a Wi-Fi hotspot. The change was done to make the statue compliant with a new law in Ukraine banning the display of communist symbols. photo via Volokin Yevgeny/Reuters via Dumskaya, NBC News