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Codename Colossus is an impressive 3D-printed toy walking tank by Machination Studio designer Michael Sng. The toy is entirely painted and assembled by hand and features a hexapodal walking motion as well as moving toy guns and other electronics. The tank, officially designated as “The HMS Boudicca,” is the first in Sng’s Codename Colossus toy line. […]

“ROCKET WARS” is a short film by the production company Variable that captures the annual firing of over 100,000 homemade rockets in the “village of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios[.]” The event, which is held during Easter, has no definitive origin, though it’s posited that it has something to do with the Turkish […]

Adidas has teamed with the group Parley for the Oceans to create a pair of sneakers made from recycled ocean garbage. The upper part of the surprisingly fashionable garbage shoes were made from illegal gillnets and other pieces of recycled waste recovered by Parley partner Sea Shepherd. They were recently presented at the United Nations as […]

“Bagels. Doughnuts that gave up on their dreams.” John Oliver offers up a series of 15 swift opinions on a variety of topics in a web-exclusive clip of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

The 24,000mAh portable power outlet by ChargeTech is a battery for charging more than just USB devices. It has two USB ports as well as a full three-pronged AC outlet capable of powering any AC compatible devices like laptops, small appliances, or even power tools. The battery can also charge devices using all its ports simultaneously. For a […]

PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta examines the increasingly fine line between play and work in a recent video. Rugnetta specifically uses recent video games television shows like Orange Is the New Black and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt to explore drudgery and fun. Why does entertainment increasingly feel like work? The Witcher 3 […]

The GoPro HERO4 Session is a new smaller and lighter GoPro camera with a range of mounting possibilities and new features. The camera is waterproof down to 10 meters without an external housing, shoots in 1080p60, and features a ball joint buckle that allows the user to easily adjust the angle of the mount on […]

Bob the Golden Retriever lives a very happy life with his blended family that includes two cockatiels, four parakeets, two mandarins, and one fuzzy hamster. They all appear to love one another, although the cockatiels tend to pick at each other from time to time. A video posted by Bob (@bob_goldenretriever) on Jun 23, 2015 […]

Curator James Harvey and producer Kaitlin Sullivan created an animated trailer for a version of the classic anime AKIRA featuring The Simpsons characters under the “Bartkira” collaborative art project based on an original idea by Ryan Humphrey. The project consists mostly of several volumes of comics. In the days of old, deep in the dredges […]

CrazyRussianHacker has a nice round-up of 10 handy life hacks you can do using clothes hangers.

A confused little black lab puppy tries to eat the cold air flowing from the car air conditioning vents that his human, YouTube user jones948, introduced to him for the first time ever. via Tastefully Offensive

GoPro video of Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel at X Games Austin 2015.

Olav the Wolf Danish artist Thomas Dambo, creates gorgeous, hulking and humorous sculptures that are all made from reclaimed scrap wood and other discarded construction materials. The sculptures can be found in such cities as Copenhagen, Mors, Aarhus, and Horsens in Denmark and Culebra Es Ley in Puerto Rico. Thomas and his team have made […]

A crowd of Albert Einstein lookalikes gathered to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “Largest gathering of people dressed as Albert Einstein” at a charity event in Los Angeles to benefit School on Wheels, an organization that helps provide education to homeless children. Although the group did not release an official count, they […]

Science writer Emma Bryce explains how to use a semicolon in a new TED-Ed lesson animated in the style of a video game by Karrot Entertainment. It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that’s why we toss these punctuation marks […]

Artist Memo Akten has created a mind-bending inceptionist video rendered by an artificial neural network. Akten begins with a clip of himself, which the artificial brain then tries to interpret using its database of millions of images. Google recently released a gallery of still inceptionist images created with the same process, but the added video element […]

Tennis player Adam Kennedy performs a 143-MPH serve in a short clip from a video recorded by Australian tennis company Flex Infinity. The video, filmed using an Olympus camera, captures the serve at 6,000 frames per second in an attempt to better understand how the Flex Infinity strings impact play. via reddit

In November 2014, an adorable little hedgehog slid easily into a plastic measuring cup in order to be weighed by a kitchen countertop scale image via reddit via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks

Trinity River Vision Authority on Panther Island, Fort Worth, TX has set the Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled on a slip and slide in on hour, traveling 774,515.09 meters (2,541,060 feet). The TRVA organisation – which is dedicated to revitalising the Trinity River that runs through Fort Worth – completely shattered the […]

Young beatboxer Nicole Paris faces off in an incredible beatboxing battle rematch against her father. In the first round, posted last year, Nicole was declared the clear winner by viewer votes. The pair have asked viewers to decide the outcome of this battle as well, but she appears confident that she’ll hold on to her […]

The first Minecraft: Story Mode trailer features an unlikely band of heroes and also a pig. The five-part episodic video game series, by Telltale Games, is based on the extremely popular Minecraft video game by Mojang. Players will control protagonist Jesse throughout the season, as portrayed by actor Patton Oswalt. Jesse and his group of […]

Donald Gould, a homeless man living in Sarasota, Florida, was recorded playing a beautiful piano rendition of the song “Come Sail Away” by Styx in a video by Dylan Henry. Gould is a college-educated musician who plays a variety of instruments, and says he also played the clarinet in the Marine Corps. Henry and his colleagues […]

This July 3rd and 4th DRT Nation shot some beautiful aerial footage of fireworks using a drone. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

While visiting South Africa Hillary Rae shot an terrifying GoPro Hero 4 video of a 11.5 foot long great white shark that was trying to bite through the diving cage she was inside of with her screaming friend. While shark cage diving, our cage was attacked by an 11.5 foot Great White shark. The round […]

Fat kungfu has created a compilation of combat robot fights from the first episode of BattleBots on ABC. via Kevin Kelly

Mental Floss host Elliott Morgan discusses common misconceptions about the United States.

Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser is back with his annual round-up of bizarre and ridiculous fireworks packaging which he has been faithfully documenting since 2007. photos by Cabel Sasser

In honor of the 4th of July, Sam the Eagle does his best to seriously recite the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence before he’s interrupted and forced to perform his recitation with a humming chorus of muppet disrupters. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve […]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has created a rather graphic video by using crash test dummies to show what can happen when fireworks are handled inappropriately and explosions go awry. Americans have a longstanding tradition of enjoying hot dogs, hamburgers and apple pie at family gatherings to celebrate Independence Day. Some festivities also […]

Mashable’s Watercooler looks at some of the signature hot dog toppings used by cities around the United States.

In honor of The 4th of July, MrSolidSnake745 presents “The Star Spangled Banner” played on eight gloppy drives.

“This Machine Keeps Portland Weird!” In honor of The 4th of July, here’s The Unipiper playing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” and Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with flaming bagpipes while riding a tall unicycle in Portland, Oregon.

It’s Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson explains whether flowers or bees came first in a recent episode. According to Hanson, bees essentially exist because of flowers. Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and […]

Italian comedian Carmine Migliaccio demonstrates how his beloved tabby cat plays dead with just a single “shot” from a finger gun. image via GIFsBoom via GIFsBoom, Daily Picks and Flicks

In 2007, Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo kept perfect time as he danced on the back of the couch, banged his head, and generally stomped to the fabulous beat of the classic Queen song “Another One Bites the Dust“. via Tastefully Offensive

A recent episode of The New York Times series Robitica–titled “The Family Dog”–profiles the life and inevitable death of AIBO, a robotic dog no longer produced by Sony. Now that Sony finally closed the last of its AIBO repair centers in March 2014, it is only a matter of time before there are no more […]

Rock Feast is a series of photos taken recently at the San Diego County Fair that show rocks that resemble food arranged with dishes and silverware. photos via Weird Universe via Boing Boing

Darren Pearson, a Los Angeles based light-art photographer who creates amazing light-paintings, has made a video showing how to light-paint a skeleton using long-exposure photography. The entire process takes around two minutes.

“piggy“, the latest surreal video by animator Cyriak Harris, features a mother pig blowing up her piglets one-by-one as if they were balloons, while the other porcine youngsters dance around waiting for their turns.

In 2013, Gil Abramov captured adorable footage of two little girls teaching their very perceptive and energetic pit bull named Loco how to jump up and down on the bed. The girls first taught by example and then repeatedly encouraged him to continue on. via Daily Picks and Flicks

A tiny calico Scottish Fold kitten named Marimo snuggles and plays with an equally tiny baby owl named Fuku at the Hukulou Coffee House in Osaka, Japan. While the cafe is primarily focused on all things owl, the kitten is certainly getting a great deal of attention, particularly from Fuku. images via Hukulou Coffee via […]

Sunny Kate Methier recently posted photos of a birthday card that her father Jeff Methier and uncle Ron Methier have been mailing back and forth to one another for over 40 years. The tradition appears to have begun in 1973, and keeps in the spirit of the card itself which reads, “This is the age of ecology! […]

PBS Game/Show host Jamin Warren examines the history of Nintendo‘s video game controllers in a recent video. As Warren notes, a Nintendo’s video game consoles tend to be defined by their controllers. The History of Nintendo is defined by its wacky controller designs. From the NES to the WiiU, nearly every new generation of console […]

Two Ultra Hal chatbots by Zabaware having a conversation in a 2011 video quickly devolve into a strangely sexual place that’s also obsessed with alcohol consumption. As Zabaware notes, Ultra Hal learns from conversations with other people as well as Twitter–though neither method seems to make for the best teachers. Zabaware’s Ultra Hal is an […]

“Astronogamer” Scott Manley provides a view of the sky if all asteroids were visible in his first attempt at a YouTube 360-degree video. The video was created using a virtual sky sphere, and released for Asteroid Day 2015. In the video, Manley calls for more resources to be allocated to the discovery of asteroids that have […]

AFV Kids shared a video back in April of a group of cute little boys hilariously tripping and falling like dominoes while attempting to exit their tent. The last three children to fall out had a nice laugh while laying in the grass. via Tastefully Offensive

Campers and counselors arrive at Camp Firewood in the full trailer for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, the Netflix prequel series to the 2001 cult comedy classic Wet Hot American Summer. The original cast of the film return with new additions like Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, and Michael Cera. An earlier trailer for […]

“Listen Alert” is a sketch from Inside Amy Schumer that highlights an emergency response device that calls someone to listen to boring stories when nobody else will. Amy Schumer plays a spokesperson for the company and explains how the service can be used, as well as its limitations.

In a new animated short by Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly, Alfred Pennyworth points out to Batman all of the nasty problems that come with having real bats flying around in the Batcave. Most of Batman’s whole persona doesn’t make much sense – being a billionaire who dresses up like a flying rodent is more than […]

A Super Cobra 6 firework sends a wheelbarrow flying into the air in a 2013 video uploaded by YouTube user bra1Nphuk. The wheelbarrow, which does not appear worse for it, even manages to land upright. via reddit, Tastefully Offensive