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Concerned about the amount of water being wasted by long showers, British designer Elisabeth Buecher created Spiky, a shower liner with inflatable spikes that ingeniously fill up and physically crowd a person out of the shower when the water has been on for more than four minutes. I looked at the environmental issue of excessive […]

In the official trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gets the resistance to march together against the capital. The conclusion to the popular film series will be released in theaters on November 20, 2015. image via The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Designer Alex Cican has created tiii.me, an wonderfully interactive site that instantly calculates how much time a person has spent watching specific television shows. The answer can then be shared via Twitter. The site uses an API by The Movie Database and is available on GitHub. I’ve wasted 02 days and 12 hours of my […]

“Home Is Where The Heart Is”, the latest animated history video by The Atlantic, takes a look at housing through the centuries, from a painted cave in 25,000 B.C. to a 3D printed house in 2015. Throughout human existence, homes have varied drastically in scope, size, and design. Cob houses originated in the eleventh century, […]

NASA‘s Kepler mission has discovered a new exoplanet named Kepler-452b that a mission analyst has called, “an older, bigger cousin to Earth.” The new exoplanet is six billion years old, making it 1.5 billion years older than our Sun, and it orbits within the “goldilocks zone” of a similar G2-type star. Kepler-452b is 1,400 light-years […]

Italian sculptor Valeriano Fatica demonstrates via a time-lapse video how to masterfully carve a detailed dragon head out of a plain old watermelon. Fatica has created other incredible sculptures from fruits and vegetables as demonstrated through his photos and other videos. photos via Valerian Fatica via So Bad So Good

Robert Simons and Peggy Chung of the Los Angeles-based Gadget-bot production company and artist Mark Yang have teamed up to create MOMENTUM, a concept movie trailer about a hover car racer and single father who has to choose between his family life and a potential shot at fame. The trailer is “designed to show key […]

“Before Science, There Was Magic” is a short documentary in the series This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory by filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, who created the Everything is a Remix series. The episode looks at the roles magic and science have played historically in understanding the natural world. The full series is available to purchase through the […]

ThinkGeek has released a plush Guardians of the Galaxy Rocket Raccoon Backpack Buddy designed to literally always have your back and keep your goods safe. The furry little officially-licensed superhero backpack is available to purchase online. Rocket’s always got Groot’s back, and now he can have yours, too. Don this Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy […]

Brooklyn deli owner Jesse Itayim of Jesse’s Deli in Boerum Hill partnered with designers Tommy Noonan and Doug Cameron to launch an “Artisanal Landlord Price Hike Sale” to combat a steep rent increase that would more than double what Itayim pays now. The sale features colorfully designed posters for items like “house-made sustainable hoagies,” “air-chilled Budweiser […]

Brooklyn-based creative hardware prototyping agency BREAKFAST recently partnered with clothing company Forever 21 to create the F21 Thread Screen, a mesmerizing visual display that automatically captures and recreates Instagram photos tagged as #f21threadscreen with different colors of thread at an incredible 80 x 80 resolution. In thread. Analog meet Digital. Made of 200,000 parts, weighing […]

While visiting Nara, Japan, filmmaker Gavin Shapiro and composer Jason Doornick encountered a stray deer. Neither man expected the petite animal to emit such odd noises, particularly the blood-curdling scream that followed and led to an uncontrollable human giggle fit, which seemed to alarm the confused deer even more. We noticed this lone deer making […]

Paul Singh of Things & Stuff recently created a helpful video where he explains the origin story of every Suicide Squad member in less than five minutes. This is handy information for anyone wanting to brush up on their knowledge before seeing the upcoming live-action Suicide Squad film based on DC Comics‘ relentless supervillain team, […]

A clever dog named Rosie, desperate to retrieve her beloved tennis ball from the pool, finally figures out an ingenious method for accomplishing her goal without having to get her fur wet. According to her human, Rosie is “an amazing, intelligent dog” and a “star”. via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Advance, North Carolina-based William Orrell broke a world record on January 31, 2015 with his incredibly quick hands by hitting an even five seconds in the cycle cup stacking competition, beating his previous record by a tenth of a second, at the WSSA Girls Incorporated of Columbus and Phenix-Russell Open Sport Stacking Tournament in Columbus, […]

image via Uzone In 1990, an Indonesian man named Daniel Alamsjah was working in the capital city of Jakarta when he received an unexpected divine message instructing him to create a prayer house in the shape of a dove atop a mountain in Magelang, Central Java. The resulting unfinished structure, known as Gereja Ayam, however, […]

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon and his guest Chevy Chase played a piano duet of “Heart and Soul,” each using their one good hand. Fallon recently broke a finger after tripping on a rug, and Chase claims to have injured himself in a somewhat more graphic way involving reruns of The […]

“Sex Offender Shuffle” is a parody by Scott Gairdner of the awkwardly classic “Super Bowl Shuffle” performed by the 1985 Chicago Bears. However, instead of rapping about football, the actors rap about their supposed crimes. For comparison, here is the original “Super Bowl Shuffle.” via reddit

Harrisen Howes successfully rescued his drone that was stranded on a neighbor’s roof by his drunk roommate by using a larger drone to grab the smaller drone with hooks made from coat hangers. via reddit

Brian Tichy — the former drummer for Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, and Ozzy Osbourne — recently paid tribute to Rush by punching a speed bag in tune with their hit song “Limelight“. According to Brian, he “had the good fortune to open for Rush with Vinnie Moore (and John JD DeServio of Black Label Society) […]

In a recent video by CollegeHumor, Emily Axford makes a staunch and high-five-filled defense of puns as she schools her coworkers and the viewer about wordplay.

In a new animated short by Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly, the core team members of the Fantastic Four get really worried about their genitals after finding out about their new powers. Imagine for a moment that you were just exposed to a terrible storm of cosmic rays, which altered your biological makeup in inexplicable ways. […]

The Chicago-based filmmakers at XVP Comedy have created “Jurassic Park: High Heels Edition,” a clever parody of the entire Jurassic Park film series where everybody is wearing a pair of stylish high heels, including the dinosaurs. You loved the endless running in high heels in Jurassic World… Now enjoy them in the entire Jurassic series! […]

KQED produced a wonderful profile about uber-cheerleader Krazy George Henderson, the man who created the ubiquitous sports cheer “The Wave” (where fans stand up in unison, raising their arms and cheering around a stadium in a “wave”) 34 years ago on October 15, 1981 at a home game between the Oakland Athletics and the New […]

“Pixels is not a movie, it’s a motherfucking active crime scene and the crime is cultural vandalism.” Freelance film critic Bob Chipman (aka “MovieBob”) really, really, really doesn’t like the new video game themed movie Pixels starring Adam Sandler, which he articulates in detail in his review of the film. So far the film has […]

A Chicago father on patrol discovered that his daughter crashed her Princess Cozy Coupe into a snow bank while drinking and driving from her sippy cup. via reddit

The video for Pharrell Williams‘ new song “Freedom” evokes stirring images servitude and of independence that alternate with each other throughout the powerful lyrics of the song. When a baby first breathes When night sees sunrise When the whale hunts in the sea When man recognizes Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom Freedom Breathe in

Actor Dean Haglund confirmed today via Twitter that he, Tom Braidwood and Bruce Harwood will all be reprising their roles as the beloved Lone Gunmen in the upcoming

Under the Same Umbrella Indonesian artist Ghidaq al-Nizar has created a wonderful series of detailed drawings that he made using coffee as his primary medium under the hastag #zerowastecoffee. Ghidaq spoke with Websta Diaries about how he started his coffee and latte art projects. I am very “spoiled” when it comes to coffee. It’s not […]

A 2012 game review by Fitzthislewits shows that he is unimpressed with the classic game of chess, which he mistakes for a real-world board game version of the 1980s game Battle Chess. Fitzthislewits calls the game unbalanced and suggests that world champion Magnus Carlsen take up League of Legends instead. via reddit

Just Think shows how various types of liquid fuels burn and with what color, lighting each by hand. His tests include jet fuel, diesel, heating oil, kerosene, aviation gasoline (avgas) and gasoline. via Geekologie

A recent video by Atlas Obscura for their 100 Wonders series shines a spotlight on Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town that has been burning for more than 50 years from a coal mine fire that started in 1962. Host Dylan Thuras explains the history of the town, as well as its bleak future which rests solely with its […]

In 2011, actress Amy Walker gave a verbal tour of the United States, providing examples of accents from commonly recognized regions such as New York, the American South, the Midwest and California. Earlier, in 2008 Amy performed 21 different accents from around the world, including the same regional American accents and more. Here’s a little […]

On a recent episode of Glove and Boots, appropriately titled “Thorigami,” a mighty puppet version of Marvel superhero Thor tries his best to show us all how to make a paper swan using his iconic Mjölnir hammer. Things just do not go as planned for the muscular Norse God of thunder and lightning. Thor vs. […]

Digital compositor and visual effects artist Rousselos Aravantinos created an impressive age reduction demomonstration with actress Michele Valley using VFX created in NUKE. via reddit

SyFy has released the official trailer for Bazillion Dollar Club, the new reality-based series that follows Dave McClure of software accelerator 500 Startups and Brady Forrest of hardware incubator Highway1 as they attempt to find, invest, and mentor various startups. The Bazillion Dollar Club follows Dave McClure, a relentless drill sergeant who founded software accelerator […]

KANIMEYT has released a terrifying commercial by Suabru of Japan for their Subaru Forester. The intense ad has deadly giants from Shinji Higuchi‘s upcoming live-action film, Attack on Titan, relentlessly chasing after the compact crossover SUV. KANIMEYT also shared behind-the-scenes footage (part two) from the commercial: via Pete Hottelet

Nonprofit new agency The Associated Press and the newsreel archive British Movietone have announced that they will be adding over 100 years of news footage from their archives to their new YouTube channels AP Archive and British Movietone. The footage includes coverage of events that date back to as early as 1895, and totals more […]

A couple of newborn baby goats at the Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine, go for their first outing with their mom and figure out how to run, play and leap about within the first 24 hours of their adorable lives. The last kids of the season have arrived! LadyBug and Princess Leia are less […]

8-Bit Bastard and IGN have teamed up to recreate the opening credits to Mike Judge‘s animated television series King of the Hill in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto V. The original King of the Hill intro for comparison: via Geekologie

The ilumi Bluetooth smartbulb is an LED lightbulb that pairs with a smartphone app to offer millions of colors and various settings. The ilumi also has a number of presets that can help promote better sleep, make it look like someone is home while the owner is away, or even help wake a person up gradually. […]

In 2009, event producers Bompas & Parr created Alcoholic Architecture, a unique pop-up experience in which vaporized gin and tonics filled a room for participants to inhale and absorb. Visitors donned protective suits and stepped into a mist of vaporised gin and tonic, which they imbibed through inhaling. Doctors were our mixologists for the event, […]

Comedy duo Tripp and Tyler demonstrate some of the things you can only get away with as pro athlete.

Matthew Shezmen of Bitter Strike! Cartoons has created “The Witchar: Wicked Hunt”, a hilarious and fairly accurate parody of the popular video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. via Kotaku

Jet is a new service that lets users shop at savings club prices without having to buy in bulk. Comedian Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley, The Meltdown) stars in a product launch video where he explains how the service works to another version of himself. Users register for yearly subscription to gain access to deals, and as […]

Los Angeles-based animator Leigh Lahav has created “Too Many Marvel Movies,” an amusing animated short where a group of fangirls get fed up with how many Marvel superhero movies there are. They quickly realize that there is nothing they can do to escape the clutches of the growing Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fans of the clever […]

Sony Pictures has released a new action-packed trailer for SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond film in which Agent 007 follows the trail of a secret criminal organization with villainous intentions. The trailer has Bond (Daniel Craig) facing off against the criminal mastermind and senior figure behind SPECTRE, Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz). SPECTRE is currently scheduled […]

Because when your ass is kicked, all of you is kicked. Your ass is you. Domics created an animated tribute to butts and all the ways a person’s butt can define them. via reddit

F/X has released the official trailer for the second season of the highly-acclaimed series Fargo. The series is a prequel to the first season and features an oddball search for a murderer in Luverne, Minnesota and introduces the main characters one-by-one. The all new “true crime” case in Fargo’s latest chapter takes you back to […]

In celebration of the upcoming SPECTRE film coming to theaters in November, London-based filmmaker Steve Ramsden has created a groovy 1960s-style trailer for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. The original opening for Casino Royale from 1967: