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The Trinity portable wind turbine power station is a powerful and portable clean energy device being offered in four different sizes that range from a small 50 watt unit for powering personal devices to a 2,500 watt version that can power a home. The unit can break down to be moved easily and adjusted for […]

Eugene Bostick, a wonderfully benevolent 80-year old man in Fort Worth, Texas, routinely takes his group of rescued stray dogs for a ride on a custom-made open-air train made from connected converted blue plastic barrels, which he pulls along with his tractor. Bostick spoke with The Dodo about how he came to adopt the dogs […]

CableRobot Simulator is an advanced virtual reality simulator suspended in the air by eight cables capable of moving the user in any direction. The user sits in a carbon fiber cage while wearing a virtual reality headset, and the cables move the cage through space to mimic the action the user is experiencing in virtual reality. […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Immersive 360 Experience Speed across the Jakku desert from Star Wars: The Force Awakens with this immersive 360 experience created exclusively for Facebook. Posted by Star Wars on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 As part of the launch of 360 Video on Facebook, Lucasfilm‘s special effects team at ILMxLAB created an […]

What Is the Shape of the Internet? is a site by Noah Veltman that compiles representations of the Internet from patent drawings. The drawings range from various clouds to amorphous blobs and abstract shapes. According to patent drawings, it’s a cloud, or a bean, or a web, or an explosion, or a highway, or maybe a […]

Facebook has introduced 360-degree video capability so users can now watch the immersive videos right in their News Feed, and upload 360-degree video of their own. Brands like Star Wars and Saturday Night Live have already posted 360-degree videos to their Facebook pages to give fans a new look at the surface of Jakku Desert and […]

They Might Be Giants has released “Say Nice Things About Detroit”, the new music video that was created for week 38 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

In a recent episode of BrainCraft by PBS Digital Studios, host Vanessa Hill posits the question “Do Dogs Dream” and then explains that several studies involving rats, mice and other mammals, suggest that they dream the same way humans do . One study at MIT trained rats to run around a circular track for a […]

A concerned calico cat came running as soon as heard the sound of kittens meowing from a singing birthday card. Not finding the kittens, she promptly picked up the card in her mouth and disappeared into the bedroom. via Tastefully Offensive

“Shifting Gears” is a new short Disney animation in which Mickey Mouse has to do battle with his reluctant car to get to the beach. The film was directed by Clay Morrow and is part of a new series of Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Design students in the Interior Architecture program at the Estonian Academy of Arts created a trio of giant wooden megaphones in the forest at the Pähni Nature Centre. The megaphones are specifically designed to amplify the ambient sounds of nature but per the school press release, they also serve other purposes. On September 18th, an […]

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created “The Matrix Trilogy – Mirror Effect,” a video that gives us a mirrored look at the wonderful symmetry found in The Matrix trilogy. We’ve previously written about Pablo and his great videos.

The PPK Rubber Band Gun by Elastic Precision is a cleverly designed semi-automatic toy gun modeled after James Bond‘s iconic Walther PPK handgun. The toy fires a series of five rubber bands up to 20 feet before it needs to be reloaded. For a limited time, the PPK Rubber Band Gun is available in our Laughing […]

While driving down Red Hill Avenue in Irvine, California, YouTuber CalicoStrike‘s dashcam caught the unusual sight of a small airplane that unexpectedly landed on the busy road. According to the Orange County Register, no one got hurt. A small plane with an instructor and student pilot made an emergency landing on an Irvine street Wednesday […]

The miniature horses of Gentle Carousel provide comfort and care to children and adults who are traumatized, ill or in just need of a little TLC. About the size of a large dog, these affectionate animals enjoy the attention and give it back in spades to over 40,000 people each year. An all volunteer 501(c)(3) […]

“El Paquete Semanal” or “The Weekly Package” is an underground network of pirated media distributed throughout Cuba. It is the subject of a recent Vox documentary. Officially, Cuba only has state-operated media outlets, so to get access to international media from other parts of the world, Cuban citizens must turn to other means. In Cuba […]

Sony Pictures has released a behind-the-scenes look at all of the action, stunts, and explosions in SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond film in which Agent 007 follows the trail of a secret criminal organization with villainous intentions. SPECTRE is currently scheduled to release in theaters on November 6, 2015. Director Sam Mendes says: “The tradition […]

(interactive chart) Flowing Data has put together an interactive chart that roughly predicts the probable number of years remaining in a person’s life, solely utilizing the person’s gender and age. The graphic uses data from the Social Security Administration to simulate your possible lifetimes. That’s plural. The line shows the probability you live to see […]

3D artist Jason B has created a virtual tour of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation using the Unreal Engine 4. In the pre-alpha tour footage, Jason takes viewers through a few completed decks of the Enterprise. To create the entirety of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D in the Unreal Game Engine. […]

Cinnamon Toast Crunch has introduced the Selfie Spoon, a selfie stick with a spoon handle for taking selfies while eating cereal. General Mills is offering a limited number of the devices for free each day, with the purchaser only having to pay shipping costs. images via Cinnamon Toast Crunch via Digital Trends, PetaPixel

A talented 35-piece orchestra performed an instrumental version of the classic Rage Against the Machine song “Bulls On Parade” arranged by composer Nick Proche. Last year Proche successfully raised funds through Kickstarter to create “Tantamount“, an album of heavy metal orchestral covers and is now looking to keep the momentum going with his Patreon page. […]

Chow-Fuhn is an animated “sci-foodieomedy” (science fiction, foodie, comedy) series, from Simpsons retake director Gabriel DeFrancesco, about chefs competing against one another in the “cut-throat business of food trucks.” The animated series will star Margaret Cho, Bobby Lee, and Jon Lovitz. DeFrancesco is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs and to […]

“It’s a fool who thinks he can’t be fooled!” – Joey Skaggs Art of the Prank is an upcoming feature-length documentary by filmmaker Andrea Marini that focuses on the incredible Joey Skaggs – media prankster, culture jammer, social satirist and longtime friend of Laughing Squid. Throughout his glorious history Skaggs has, in part, pranked a […]

Peanutize Me is a promotional web app for The Peanuts Movie that lets users turn themselves into a Peanuts character. User can select different facial elements, clothes, accessories, and even backgrounds to put themselves in the Peanuts world. The Peanuts Movie will be released in theaters on November 6, 2015. Glen Tickle as a Peanuts character. […]

Sorta Outdoorsy is a wonderful email newsletter and resource that shares information about outdoor adventures, through videos, photos and first-hand experiences, with New Yorkers who want to “escape from New York”, but not go too far from it either. A newsletter for people who love the city and love to leave the city. Our mission […]

Pingpad is a new shared notes, messaging, and task management app that easily lets groups collaborate privately across multiple devices and increase “social productivity”. The app is available now in the Apple iTunes Store and Google Play Store, as well as online. images via Pingpad

In “Cars on the Lanes”, a beautiful follow-up video to his “Birds on the Wires“, videographer Jarbas Agnelli of São Paulo, Brazil assigned short musical phrases to looped patterns of automobiles as they drove down a New York highway, resulting in a neat electronic song containing different tracks of lead, bass, drums, synthesizer and claps. […]

In “How a Retractable Ballpoint Pen Works“, Engineer Guy Bill Hammack takes a detailed look inside a Parker Jotter retractable ballpoint pen to explain how the mechanism works and what gives the pen its satisfying click. The video is a step-by-step breakdown of a bit of engineering many people may take for granted.

Xbox has released “Descent Into Legend,” a new trailer for the upcoming Lara Croft video game Rise of the Tomb Raider, the follow-up to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. The trailer follows Lara as she attempts to survive in the wild and explore deadly, trap-filled tombs. Rise of the Tomb Raider is currently available to […]

To prepare players for the upcoming release of the video game Fallout 4 on November 10, 2105, Bethesda has released “Endurance”, the third 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” and “Perception”. Following total atomic annihilation, […]

“Everlasting Lightning Storm” is the latest episode of the Atlas Obscura series 100 Wonders that explains the Catatumbo Lightning of Venezuela. The unique geography of the region around Lake Maracaibo creates conditions that produce 140 to 160 fierce lightning storms per year, each lasting up to 10 hours with as many as 3,600 lightning flashes per hour. […]

A new video from Red Bull features footage of world champion biker, Gee Atherton, flying over huge road gaps and tight wooded areas while speeding through an insane downhill mountain biking trail that is appropriately named the Red Bull Hardline.

A 4K time-lapse video by Toby Smith follows the container ship Gunhilde Maersk as it travels from Ho-Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Ningbo, China to pick up a load of shipping containers. The video was created from over 78,000 photos taken with a Canon 5D MkIII camera in a special marine housing. via Twisted Sifter

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis highlights ten popular films that you may now have known were influenced by video games. He features Edge Of Tomorrow, Zombieland, Sucker Punch, and more. As video game releases continue to bring in millions, or billions of dollars for major publishers, movie studios are turning […]

The East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a one-day family-friendly event that’s a scaled-down version of the larger World Maker Faire, but holds the same values around celebrating inventiveness, creativity and learning. Only “Mini” in relationship to the “Monster” Maker Faire Bay Area, our Oakland show welcomes over 7,000 people to a one-day extravaganza of […]

In his song “Permanent Holiday“, the talented Hawaiian reggae musician Mike Love amazingly looped seemingly random sounds and syllables with pedals at his feet until they formed whole words by the end of the song. The effect is absolutely mesmerizing, particularly paired with the calming beat and Love’s beautiful voice. redditor CyBot was so intrigued […]

It appears that the creatures of New York are suddenly running off with human food. Yesterday, a subway rat dragged a piece of pizza down the stairs and now today an adorably bold and sneaky squirrel stole a milkshake from the Shake Shack garbage can in Madison Square Park. The little rodent paid no mind […]

The design firm &Orange has created “An Instant Guide to Making Coffee,” a clever and simple animated demonstration of different methods used to brew coffee. The video used the Stumptown Coffee Roasters Brew Guide for reference and inspiration for the methods shown. via Huh Magazine

During a Topvogel falconry show in the village of Diessen, Netherlands, falconer Sjors Van de Wiel demonstrated how a majestic Harris’ hawk with a large wingspan is able to tuck its wings in order to fly easily in small spaces, such as the two volunteers who were standing head-to-head, without ruffling a single feather. Topvogel […]

An impressive video captures the 2013 world record-setting stone thrown by Kurt Steiner at Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. Steiner’s stone skipped 88 times before falling below the water’s surface. The video highlights each individual skip and points out previous records as Steiner’s stone skips past them. Stone skipping works by generating lift as it […]

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created a beautiful new supercut video featuring scenes in movies where time is standing still. We’ve previously written about Pablo and his videos. The movies are: The Matrix, Clockstoppers, Buffalo 66, Cashback, Big Fish, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Lost in Space, Click, and The Wolverine.

“Louis CK on Cellphones” is a compilation by editor Luís Azevedo of The A to Z Review that combines a number of rants by comedian Louis C.K. on the topic of cellphones. C.K. has frequently commented on the role technology plays in society, and particularly how he feels cellphones are ruining it.

Legendary Pictures has released a TV spot for Crimson Peak, an upcoming supernatural mystery film directed by the great Guillermo del Toro. His haunting film stars Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, and Charlie Hunnam. It is currently scheduled to hit theaters on October 16th, 2015. When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, […]

An inspiring video posted by Cherish Sherry features eloquent six-year-old Tiana giving her mother a meaningful lesson about staying friends with Tiana’s father now that they’re divorced. Tiana assures her mother that she only wants what’s best as she carefully lays out her vision for a world where everyone is friends. via Digg

Charlie Brown works up the nerve to talk to the new girl in the second trailer for The Peanuts Movie. The trailer also highlights the rest of the Peanuts gang. The Peanuts Movie will be released in theaters on November 2, 2015. image via The Peanuts Movie

In a funny video shot by Shoot To Kill NYC for GQ, actor and new dad Ryan Reynolds attempts to build an IKEA crib and ends up showing the crib exactly who is boss. Duct tape is a real life saver. Does the new dad have what it takes? What’s Swedish for “f*ck you”?

Young Marty can’t manage to blow out the candle on his second birthday cupcake. After several unsuccessful attempts and nearly lighting himself of fire, Marty gets some help from his dad to finally extinguish the flame. Marty had some similar problems blowing out the candle on his birthday cake at his party, but his dad […]

“Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?” is a reanimation of the tea party scene from the 1951 Disney classic Alice in Wonderland done in the style of 17 classic paintings. The video was created by Gene Kogan using software and a style transfer technique to change the look of the scene to match paintings such as Starry Night, […]

Beat Down Boogie has created a new music video featuring a number of the incredible cosplays at Dragon Con 2015, Atlanta’s “largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film.” Beat Down Boogie’s entire collection of photos from Dragon Con are available to view online. music […]

For the 2015 Comic-Con, the incredible Eclectic Method created “The Classic Doctors“, an amazing remix of scenes that took place during the tenure of the first eleven incarnations of Doctor Who. The BBCAmerica has since adopted part of the remix as a clever promotion for the current series of the show. BBC America have uploaded […]