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Shoe enthusiast Brad Hall is back with an exciting new unboxing and review of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 designed by Kanye West. His verdict, “They are very stylish and comfortable!”

Salavat Fidai, the experimental artist from Ufa whose work we’ve previously posted, has continued his series of exquisitely detailed and delicate sculptures onto the protruding lead (graphite) at the end of a pencil. Some of these sculptures and other creations can be purchased through Fidai’s Etsy Shop. A video posted by Salavat Fidai (@salavat.fidai) on […]

ShelfPack is a rolling suitcase with built-in expanding shelves that allow for easy storage and organization while traveling. Interested customers can pre-order the ShelfPack now, which is expected to begin shipping in August 2015. photos via ShelfPack via Digital Trends, The Awesomer

On a recent episode of SciShow host Hank Green explains how a female worker bee becomes a queen bee through the mysterious process of eating royal jelly.

On a recent episode of Conan, recorded on location at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, host Conan O’Brien presented footage of celebrities auditioning to replace Hugh Jackman as the live-action version of Wolverine. Nick Offerman, Patton Oswald,

Bangor, Maine-based husband and wife team, John and Christine Carney, of the ThickandThinDesigns Etsy store has created a set of Tentacle Cupcake Toppers that come with three different tentacle designs. The green and purple acrylic toppers are available to purchase as a six pack or 12 pack online from Etsy. Acrylic is shatter resistant, durable […]

The Shift Sneaker is a shoe design concept by +rehabstudio that pairs with a smartphone app to quickly change color and design. Although the Shift Sneaker does not yet exist, it is designed with existing technology and materials in mind, though some of the components like phase-change fibers and metamaterials are not currently available for consumer […]

The Hydro Hammock is a portable hot tub complete with a separate heating system. The synthetic material of the hammock means that it can be used out in cold as a hammock or at the beach as a sort of in-ground pool. It’s worth noting that the hammocks come in two different versions–a single- and […]

A brown and white baby goat stood upon his hind legs and made repeated efforts to head butt a friendly horse, who more than anything, seemed to be entertained by the persistent youngster. via The Presurfer

Flash Mob Jazz and the singers of Lady Armstrong performed a fun swing version of the immensely popular Lorde song “Royals“. via reddit

“More men have walked on the moon than been Ronald McDonald.” “Ronald” is a short documentary by The Guardian that focuses on Joe Maggard, one of the few men to have played McDonald’s official Ronald McDonald mascot. Maggard served between 1995 and 2007, though he says he never really retired. In the documentary, Maggard discusses his work […]

Johnny Depp recently dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean films, with his sidekick Scrum (Stephen Graham), to surprise some of the patients at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Depp did a wonderful job of getting into character as the witty pirate, interacting with the sweet children, […]

1 Week. 25 Times. 2 Condoms. The Amazon original series Catastrophe is an incredibly likable and atypical romantic comedy starring series writers Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgat as two people who meet in London, spend a week together, and go back to their own lives before circumstances thrust them into each other’s lives for a […]

Entertainer Reggie Watts talks about his life, early career, and how California inspires him in a short animation by Drew Tyndall. The video is part of the California Inspires Me series that is a collaboration between Google Play and California Sunday. Previously, we’ve covered earlier installations in the series by artists like Brian Wilson, Jack Black, and Kim Gordon. […]

Amy Schumer narrates a behind-the-scenes video of her recent Glamour cover shoot to reveal what she was really thinking. Her thoughts focused primarily on wind, the number of people touching her, and how many faces she can make.

ThinkGeek has created a set Empire approved of Darth Vader and Stormtrooper 12V USB car chargers, perfect for helping you harness the “Dark Side of the Force” while on the go. The Empire has it all: cookies. Matching uniforms. Fancy ships. The budget to build not just one but two moon-sized space stations (after SOMEbody […]

7 Ways to Chop an Onion You Suck At Cooking is a wonderfully acerbic video series that offers humorous advice on such culinary tasks as chopping onions, making tuna salad and mixing up a quick bean dip. The series premiered in early January 2015 with a recipe for an easy guacamole, “4 ingredients plus salt […]

LADYBABY is a Japanese entertainment group that features two teen girls (17-year-old Rie Kaneko and 14-year-old Rei Kuromiya) and Ladybeard, a relatively famous cross-dressing bearded man. The group has released a series of videos, and have a CD available to pre-order on Amazon Japan. image via LADYBABY via Dorkly

Eddie Codel, a long-time friend of Laughing Squid, has just announced The Flying Robot International Film Festival, an open competitive film festival showcasing films made using drones. They will be opening for submissions soon, so sign up via their website, follow on Twitter and join their Facebook group. The Flying Robot International Film Festival is […]

Professional movie trailer editor indrancole3 takes us down memory lane with a nostalgic supercut of 1990s Disney films. via reddit

Luís Azevedo of The A to Z Review has created a fantastic video essay and detailed write-up that explores the many father figures present in films by director Wes Anderson. We previously wrote about Azevedo’s video essay that looks at the books in Wes Anderson movies. Throughout Wes Anderson’s filmography there’s a constant search for […]

RealBigBoys reminds us of the unforgettable scene from the 1994 film Forrest Gump where he beatboxes with his dying mother. via reddit

Happy, an excited and appropriately named Jack Russell terrier with generalized ataxia, a neurological disorder that causes mobility issues, recently went for a swim at a nearby lake with her brand new life vest. At all times, Happy remained under the watchful eye of her human from Animal Hope, a Fort Worth, Texas rescue organization […]

Animator Filipe Costa of PipocaVFX and artist Matheus Muniz teamed up to create “All Pixels Must Die”, an animated pixel art compilation video of some of the most shocking death scenes in HBO‘s television series Game of Thrones. The 8-bit music and sounds for their video were created by Paulo Bohrer II. via The Roosevelts

Inventor Izzy Swan of Think Woodworks has created a whimsical drill-powered walking machine. In a video posted to his YouTube page, he explains the build process and demonstrates how it works as he rides it around his neighborhood. The machine was inspired by the mechanism of the walking sculpture Strandbeest by artist Theo Jansen. Swan has created a […]

Facebook is updating their controls for News Feed, the personalized stream of posts you see when you’re on Facebook. You now have the ability to select which friends and pages you see first. To help prioritize stories, and make sure you don’t miss posts from particular friends and Pages, you can now select which friends […]

“Driving at Night” is a supercut by Jack Mugglestone that seamlessly combines scenes from the excellent films Drive and Nightcrawler, both of which rely heavily on driving through the streets of Los Angeles as a major plot theme. via Indiewire, GeekTyrant

Mashd N Kutcher had fun trolling the entire crowd at a club with surprise bass drop. via reddit

“One-Minute Time Machine” is a charming short film about love and time travel written by Sean Crouch and directed by Devon Avery. The movie stars Brian Dietzen and Erinn Hayes as two people meeting for the first time. Dietzen uses his one-minute time machine to give himself multiple chances at winning over Hayes, but he learns time […]

Disney recently released an official Star Wars app for iOS and Android devices that allows fans to view the latest Star Wars news, play sounds from the movies and television shows, take selfies with Yoda and Boba Fett, check the weather, plus much more. The interactive app is currently available to download from the iTunes […]

Jewelbots are a line of Arduino friendship bracelets created to get girls excited about learning to code. The bracelets feature some out-of-the-box functionality like alerting the wearer to nearby friends and the ability to send secret messages. Users can also take advantage of the open source nature of the Jewelbots line and the Arduino IDE to […]

San Diego-based R/C builder Otto Dieffenbach of Flyguy Promotions recently built a high-flying custom remote-controlled quadcopter that looks like R2-D2, the iconic astromech droid from the Star Wars films. Dieffenbach will be showing off his collection of custom remote-controlled creations, which includes his impressive R/C Snoopy flying on a doghouse, at the 2015 San Diego […]

Conan O’Brien (The Doof Warrior) and Andy Richter (Immortan Joe) take a Mad Max-themed drive down the “Fury Road” to Comic-Con in San Diego where they are taping Conan this week.

Psyched Substance presents “everything you need to know about” the psychedelic drug LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) in a three-minute video.

A message from the Supply Lord of The Afterscape. Stephen Colbert broadcasts a message from his bunker after surviving today’s tech-apocalypse. Bunker Selfie! http://t.co/x4pUoP7BBO #LSSC pic.twitter.com/vFXbnF7az3 — Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) July 9, 2015

In early June 2015, the Japan-based couple Rachel and Jun visited Kitsune Mura Fox Village in Miyagi, Japan and captured absolutely wonderful footage of the over 200 resident vulpine creatures, who were surprisingly human-friendly and incredibly adorable. Rachel certainly had a good time. A real place where you can legit play with 200+ foxes!! I […]

“Here to There” by The Atlantic, a lovely animated history of transportation from 8000 BC to 2015. Ever since the first hominids left Africa, human beings have been on the move. The canoe was invented in 8,000 B.C. and the first form of public transportation was a stagecoach operated in Paris in 1662. Fast forward […]

CollegeHumor created this helpful video that updates popular teen slang to be relevant for adults.

On July 18, the Bay Area Infrastructure Observatory (BAIO) is organizing Gruen Day 2015 at the Bay Fair Shopping Mall in San Leandro, California to celebrate the birthday of Austrian-born Victor Gruen (1903 -1980), the father of the modern climate-controlled enclosed shopping mall. On July 18, the Bay Area Infrastructure Observatory (BAIO) invites you to […]

PBS Space Time host Gabe Perez-Giz explores whether a circle can be a straight line in a recent episode. The answer is rather complicated, and is the first part of Perez-Giz’s three-part explanation of general relativity. General Relativity! Spacetime! And… Curved Lines? On this week’s episode of Spacetime, Gabe talks about what it actually means […]

image via Jakub Geltner on Facebook Czech artist Jakub Geltner keeps his eyes on the street with “Nests”, a series that features groups of surveillance cameras installed into urban and outdoor spaces in such a way that they blend into naturally into their environment. The project is Geltner’s way of denouncing the constant scrutiny under […]

Engineer Guy Bill Hammack provides a detailed breakdown of the mechanics of a film projector. Hammack covers how a projector syncs audio and video, how the shutter create the illusion of smooth motion, and more. Bill tears apart a film projector to reveal the amazing mechanisms used in the pre-digital age to trick the mind […]

BuzzFeed has posted 10 paintings that depict celebrity chef Guy Fieri as a series of Renaissance babies. The exact reason why BuzzFeed or anyone else would do this is unclear. images via BuzzFeed via BuzzFeed

HypeLead has uploaded a video that poses the question “What is zero divided by zero?” to the electronic assistant Siri found on Apple products with somewhat unexpected results. via Viral Viral Videos

ThinkGeek has released an officially licensed USB car charger that looks like KITT‘s voice box from the classic Knight Rider television series. The light bars on their KITT USB charger sync to audio, which also plays back noises and 11 different phrases from the TV show. It is available to purchase online. We previously wrote […]

The Mino Shoe Life Tracker is a device that fits into a runner’s shoe and alerts them when it’s time to get a new pair. The device slips in under the sock-liner and easily shows the life left in the shoe with a series of indicator lights. The goal of the device is to prevent […]

Lisa Murphy, founder of Sosu Sauces in Oakland, CA, shows how to make a spicy fermented Sriracha sauce at home in a recent video by Munchies.

Luis Azevedo of The A to Z Review has created Bibliophilia, a wonderful video-essay that takes looks at the books in Wes Anderson films. Azevedo also published a detailed write-up to go along with the video-essay. In the work of Wes Anderson, books and art in general have a strong connection with memory. The Royal […]

To celebrate the upcoming return of The X-Files with a limited event series, Fox is scheduled to air every episode of the show’s first nine seasons one per day in order for 201 Days of The X-Files beginning on July 7, 2015 with the show’s pilot episode, and ending on January 1, 2016 with the series finale. The […]