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The Watermelon Keg is a simple tap device that lets users convert a hollowed-out watermelon into a keg to dispense their favorite drinks. The kit includes the tap itself, a coring tool for making the appropriate sized hole, and a locking unit to keep the tap in place. In 2014 we wrote about a custom 3D-printed tap […]

A litter of three orphaned baby hedgehogs are thriving under the care of Wildlife Aid, who rescued the trio after being abandoned by their mother who was spooked away from her babies. These three new orphan babies were abandoned by their mother, because she was disturbed in the shed where she gave birth. The hoglets […]

In a recent video by The Slow Mo Guys, Daniel Gruchy climbs inside a giant six-foot water balloon as it gets filled with water. His partner Gavin Free looks on with the camera rolling as the balloon is filled to the point of bursting, and the dramatic moment is captured in impressive 4K slow-motion. After […]

Sad Hill Productions has created a gritty fan film mashup of Star Wars and Sergio Leone‘s 1966 Spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Han Solo (The Good), Boba Fett (The Bad), and Greedo (The Ugly) are all after the buried gold and settle who gets it all by engaging in an […]

CBS has released a new trailer for Supergirl, an upcoming action-adventure drama television series based on the DC Comics superhero Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist). In the trailer, Supergirl shares her story with the world and gets into a heated battle with the powerful Vartox . Supergirl is currently scheduled to premiere on October 26, 2015. […]

ABC has released the 10-minute first look presentation that was created to pitch the upcoming series The Muppets. The mini-episode sets up the premise of the series where Kermit and the other Muppets are preparing for a new show on ABC, but must convince Miss Piggy to do the show. The series is stylistically similar to The […]

Artist Sam Van Aken has created the amazing “Tree of 40 Fruit“, a hybrid tree that can grow over 40 varieties of stone fruits in various shades of pinks, purples and oranges. Using the process of chip grafting, Van Aken propagated the tree in order to preserve a number of heirloom varieties that have been […]

CeeLo is back with the new single “Robin Williams”! Check out the interactive video here: http://t.co/RNqadjRCan https://t.co/duzYAORC1x — Atlantic Records (@AtlanticRecords) July 17, 2015 “Robin Williams” is a new song and interactive video by CeeLo Green about the late comedy icon Robin Williams. The song also references other comedy legends who died too soon like […]

A grizzly bear pushes a woman inside a clear cube as she screams in panic in a supposed clip from the Japanese game show Sekai No Hate Made ItteQ! The woman films the event with a handheld camera as the bear tips the cube and circles it, seemingly looking for a weakness. via Tio, Boston Newstime, […]

National Geographic has profiled the wonderful people at House With A Heart in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a dedicated sanctuary for senior dogs and cats who can no longer remain with their humans for a variety of reasons. Director Sher Polivinale and her many volunteers work hard to ensure that every animal in their charge gets the […]

Students from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University have taught a robot to play ping-pong. In a recent video released by Stanford News, the robot is seen skillfully batting a ping-pong ball back to the humans throwing the ball. Other tasks the students programmed similar robots to do include mastering a ball-in-cup game and serving […]

Disney Pixar has released a new trailer for The Good Dinosaur, an upcoming animated film directed by Peter Sohn and produced by Denise Ream. A young Apatosaurus named Arlo and a little human boy become great friends thanks to a single act of kindness in the touching trailer. The Good Dinosaur is currently scheduled to […]

The Diphylleia also known as the skeleton flower is actually a flowering herb with white petals that become transparent whenever they are exposed to water, leaving only the tiny veins of the petal visible. The Diphylleia grayi is a beautiful white flower that turns transparent upon contact with water. When it rains, the clusters of […]

Random House is set to release a new set of Little Golden Books based on each of the first six Star Wars films: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. The adventure-filled series of books, available to pre-order online […]

DaVinci is a beautiful nascent foal who was born with a white marking that looks like another horse. The marking goes across his left flank and up his neck where it meets his mane. According to his human at the Flying Hall School at Robin Hood’s Bay, he also has another marking across his bottom. […]

On July 11, 2015 the historic Park Avenue Hotel in Detroit, built in 1924, was imploded to make room for the loading dock of the new Detroit Events Center, which will become the new home of the Detroit Red Wings. The vacant hotel was known for its iconic “Zombieland” graffiti written on the top of […]

Books Are More Than Knowledge The Yokahama City Board of Education recently launched “Books Build Children” a clever ad campaign seeking to recruit school librarians have a love of books and can pass that onto their students. The campaign, led by Miharu Matsunaga of the Dentsu Tokyo creative team, features sculptures of children made from […]

France took home the win against Serbia at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball World League championship. Directly after their win, French prankster Rémi Gaillard cleverly pulled a fast one on France’s championship team by disguising himself in their uniform, sneaking down from the bleachers, and posing in the team’s official photo unnoticed. Je vous laisse trouver […]

A clever copycat named Taro adorably mimics the endlessly waving Maneki-neko in the window of his 10 Cats home . image via 10 Cats via Tastefully Offensive

Craig J. Clark, a fan of both the classic film The Wizard of Oz and the wonderfully quirky band They Might Be Giants decided to mash the two together, strategically pairing songs with the action of the scenes throughout the entire movie, similar to the infamous “Dark Side of the Rainbow“, but with far more […]

Murder! is a live comedy murder mystery podcast by New York-based comedy duo Marina and Nicco (Marina Tempelsman and Nicco Aeed.) The series is being performed live over the course of four shows at the People’s Improv Theater in New York City in July 2015, and each of the eight episodes are being released as […]

In a recent episode of ASAPScience, creators Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit explain via whiteboard animation that all food is made up of chemistry and de-bunks common myths and misconceptions about “chemical-free” and detox diet claims. Everything around us is made up of chemicals from the water you drink to the air you breathe -literally […]

In a recent story by Wired, hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely hack a moving 2014 Jeep Cherokee being driven on the highway by Wired writer Andy Greenberg. Miller and Valasek start small by turning on the vehicle’s air conditioning, stereo, and windshield wipers before upping their attack and disabling the Jeep’s engine. While safely […]

Construction on The ARK at JFK, a world class privately owned animal care terminal, is currently underway at John F. Kennedy Airport. Developed by Racebrook Capital, the project will live in Cargo Hold 78 at , a 178,000-square-foot building with 14.4 acres of surrounding land, that has been vacant since 2004. Artist renderings depict an […]

“I grinded it!” – Ryden Cincinnati, Ohio-based skateboarder, writer, and father Andy Schrock recently captured some great footage on his adorable and determined three-year-old son, Ryden Schrock, working on his skateboard skills at a local skate park. After a couple of weeks of practice, Ryden shows off how he is able to pull off his […]

image via Dreamscope Dreamscope is a new web app that warps photos into inceptionist images or other filters inspired by Google’s “Deep Dream” artificial neural network. Users can freely use the web app to create images with one of 16 filters, or register a free account to create higher-resolution images with three additional filters. Laughing […]

Dave Hax demonstrates a neat party trick that lets you karate chop a watermelon in half. Watermelon surprise! How to split a watermelon in half with your hand. Fun party trick, great for the summer if you’re having a bbq and you want to impress your friends, just don’t show them the cut mark! Be […]

Ash Williams Cult of Personality is a solo art show by tattoo artist and painter Bruce White at Gallery1988 (East) in Los Angeles featuring his impressive portraits of pop culture characters painted on black velvet. The show is currently on display and will run through July 25, 2015. White’s full collection of black velvet paintings […]

Digg explores the history of aliens in film. A full list of the movies can be found in the video description. From their earliest cinematic appearance in Georges Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon” in 1902, our conception of life beyond Earth has changed to reflect our hopes and fears, the technology we’ve mastered, and […]

Vidgeo has created a funny special-effects video where two wild Jedi chipmunks reenact the intense final lightsaber battle that took place between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Jedi Chimpmunk to the rescue! If you’re the kind of Star Wars fan who enjoys anything and everything to […]

Balloon Bonanza is a device by Telebrands that fills and ties 40 water balloons simultaneously in a matter of seconds. Dan John filmed a video of himself testing the Balloon Bonanza to see if it works as well in real life as on the commercial. via reddit

FX secret agent Sterling Archer had a good time poking fun at some of this year’s most popular and anticipated films (Mad Max:Fury Road, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and more) during the San Diego Comic-Con 2015 panel intro for Archer. When told that a new Star Wars film was coming out, Archer’s attitude […]

“Rock Club” by They Might Be Giants, the music video for week 29 of their Dial-A-Song Direct series.

African warrior king Shaka Zulu faces off with Roman Empire ruler Julius Caesar in the latest episode of Epic Rap Battles of History.

A baby fennec fox named Milo and a baby skunk named Flower are growing up together as the best of adorable friends. The animals are being raised to be educational ambassadors with Amazing Animal Ambassadors, a licensed Massachusetts-based teaching organization. Amazing Animal Ambassadors connects our world with an audience of any age. Have us in […]

Bearded ex-waiter WheezyWaiter convincingly demonstrates 26 different ways to scream.

According to Josh Hawkins and Rhys Keir, the trick to speaking Australian (Aussie), is to just abbreviate everything. via Mashable

In a recent episode of Numberphile, mathematician Alex Bellos demonstrates his custom-built elliptical pool table. The table can be used to demonstrate some interesting mathematical properties. In particular, it can be used to demonstrate elliptical focus points. When the ball is shot from the complementary focus point from the hole it should always go in, regardless […]

The Atlantic has created a brief animated history of weapons, starting with the axe in 1,000,000 B.C. and then up through the Pain Rain in 2010. From the axe, which originated in 1,000,000 B.C., to today’s killer drones, mankind’s use of weapons has been varied and incredibly inventive. Weapons have changed history and aided in […]

Iron Man Illustrator Josh Lynch has very cleverly reimagined some of the most famous Marvel superheroes as dogs whose personalities and looks seem to most match the character. For example, a chihuahua in shades is Iron Man, a green English bulldog is The Hulk, a long-haired golden retriever is Thor, a cigar smoking pug is […]

The GoSafe 520 is a 2K ultra HD dashboard camera by PAPAGO with an ultra-wide 146-degree viewing angle. The camera can automatically start recording when it detects sudden impact, sharp turns, or sudden braking. While parked, the camera will also start recording when something moves in its field of view. The camera can record in […]

The classic painting “The Scream” by Edvard Munch is brought to life in a fantastic animation directed by Sebastian Cosor of Safe Frame, perfectly set to the song “The Great Gig In The Sky” by Pink Floyd. I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky […]

Toscano Bricks recreated the trailer for the new Marvel film Ant-Man using LEGO. Here’s the original: via Tastefully Offensive

Watercooler recently invited a lively group of small dogs to slobber through bowls of ice cream on a very hot summer day, though each dog had his/her own style of consuming the cold stuff. Chloe the Mini-Frenchie and Sir Palmercartney dug right in, Latte and Maddie took delicate licks, Remi the Cockapoo ate his ice […]

In Your Skin Graphic artist and photographer Peechaya Burroughs has created an amusing series of photos in which she created real life emojis and other wonderfully playful images made from food with the illusion of interacting with food, much in the way a child would see it. My photographs mainly consist of things that I […]

In anticipation of becoming the new host of the Late Show in September, Stephen Colbert is launching a daily week-long series where he shares his lunchtime with viewers.

“Amazon Prime Day 2” is a parody video by ThinkHero that pokes fun at what some customers felt were some disappointing deals during Amazon’s much-anticipated Prime Day event. The video sets up a fictional “Prime Day 2″ and includes references to some lackluster deals on items customers are unlikely to want at negligible discounts.

On the latest episode of SciShow, host Hank Green explores the ways that certain smells can trigger memories.

Oltedal, Norway-based musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios recently performed a heavy metal cover of the Bee Gee‘s classic 1977 disco song “Stayin’ Alive“. The music video shows Leo singing along as he tears through the song on his daughter’s collection of toy instruments. Fans of Leo can help support his future videos and […]

Union Bridge Films takes a musical look at the “Tiny Backpack” fashion trend sweeping the nation. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips