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The Secret Life of Pets is an upcoming animated feature by Illumination Entertainment, the makers of the Despicable Me and Minions series. The film focuses on what pets do when their humans are away, and features the voices of Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper, Jenny Slate, and Hannibal Buress. The film is scheduled to release in […]

Carsandwater recently used thermite to turn a hockey puck into a crumbly mess. This comes after they attempted to use a red-hot nickel ball with little effect.

An adorable tiny octopus species being described at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) could be getting the official name Opisthoteuthis adorabilis due to its cuteness. The species is being described by Stephanie Bush, a postdoctoral fellow at MBARI who is responsible for coming up with the name, and she has proposed Opisthoteuthis adorabilis as a possible […]

“A Hotel Full of Secrets“, the fourth in a line of recent videos by Wax Audio, is an ethereally mesmerizing mashup that combines the classic instrumental Pink Floyd song “A Saucer Full of Secrets” (from the film Live at Pompeii) with the lyrics of the equally classic “Hotel California” by The Eagles. The result is […]

The Japanese design company Toyo Case has created Nekoashi Chair Socks, a line of cute knitted socks that look like cat paws and slip on over the feet of chairs. The socks help to protect hard floors from being scratched up. They are available to purchase online from Tokyo Otaku Mode. images via Tokyo Otaku […]

Danielle Jacobs, a woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, bravely shared the story of how her loyal service dog Samson gently intervened to keep her from harming herself during a depressive meltdown. Jacobs had spent a great deal of time training Samson to alert to different issues such as nightmares, anger, anxiety and flashbacks. Additionally, Samson assists […]

Microsoft showed off a new trailer for the video game Cuphead by developer Studio MDHR at their recent E3 2015 press event. The game, which features incredible old-timey animation and gameplay, is scheduled to release in 2016 on Xbox One. Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired […]

British pilots Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones, who have both been flying together for the past 17 years, recently became the first two people in the world to fly their planes in formation through a 25-foot tall hangar at 185 MPH. Both of the daring pilots had only about 32 feet on either side of […]

In a new commercial for Statoil gas stations in Norway, a man named Juha-Pekka Perämäki uses an 8.5-ton excavator to prepare a hot dog and feed it to his friend Antti. After splitting the bun, adding lettuce, the hot dog, onions, and condiments, Perämäki delivers the hot dog right to Antti’s mouth for an approving nod. […]

Fund on Etsy is a new crowdfunding platform launched by the popular online craft market. The service will help Etsy sellers fund new products, as well as offer buyers a new way to connect to the people they are buying from by letting them be involved in every step of the process. The program is […]

In the latest episode of Glove and Boots, Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog and Mario take a look back at the history of YouTube in celebration of the video-sharing website’s 10th anniversary.

Fox has released a new trailer for Peanuts, the 3D-animated comedy film based on the popular comic strip created by Charles Shultz. The trailer follows Charlie Brown as he tries to muster up the courage to talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl. Peanuts is currently scheduled to release in theaters on November 6, 2015. Charlie […]

In a recent episode of SciShow, host Hank Green explains several possible ways to break the Internet. The episode highlights some potential vulnerabilities to the physical structure of the Internet, including underwater cables that run along the ocean floor, which had to be made shark-proof to avoid the animals attacking them and causing outages. Green also […]

Developer Crystal Dynamics provided a first look at the gameplay in the upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider video game at Microsoft’s E3 2015 press event. The game, which is currently available to pre-order on Amazon, is an Xbox exclusive for Holiday 2015–meaning that it might eventually come to other consoles.

In a recent episode of AsapSCIENCE, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown ask the question, “Could you transfer your consciousness into another body?” The episode relates the ideas of uploading and downloading memories to and from a computer to the upcoming film Self/Less about a man played by Sir Ben Kingsley transferring his consciousness into another man played by Ryan […]

The Yantouch Diamond is a color-changing Bluetooth speaker that pairs with any Bluetooth-capable device to provide quality sound and beautiful ambient light. The Diamond can be controlled with the included remote or a smartphone app to control the volume and select from a range of 16,000,000 colors and lighting effects. For a limited time, the […]

A new trailer for the video game Firewatch by developer Campo Santo sets the stage for a mystery adventure in the Wyoming wilderness. As noted in an E3 2015 blog post about the game, it is still scheduled for a 2015 release and will now come to PlayStation 4 as well. images via Panic Blog

The Warp Zone has created “Mad Max: Out of Gas,” a clever comedy sketch based on the Mad Max films where Max Rockatansky is riding on his tricycle in the desert while battling a group of outlaws. Engaging in battle with elaborate vehicles is tough when there is no gasoline to speak of in the […]

An adorable little girl named Layla has to wear an eyepatch for two hours every day to fight a small cataract in her eye. To make the best of the situation, her father Geof Grubb decorates the daily patches with fun, interesting designs and posts the results on the Instagram account Layla’s Patches. photos via Geof […]

In the GQ video “Evolution of Hats“, YouTube personality Jim Chapman models over 400 years worth of men’s headwear and adds in humorous touches with each style. via Joe Sabia

A tiny kitten named Pixel accidentally figured out how to turn on her human‘s bedside light simply by doing what kittens do: playing with random things that dangle from the wall before clumsily falling to the floor. via Daily Picks and Flicks

Epic Pictures Group has released the first official release trailer for Turbo Kid, a 1980s-style BMX action splatter comedy film by writers Anouk Whissell, François Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell of RKSS Films. The trailer follows Turbo Kid (Munro Chambers) as he searches for his true identity and fights to save his girl, Apple (Laurence Leboeuf). […]

Turkish artist Selçuk Yilmaz has crafted exquisitely detailed wild animal masks made from hand-hammered and welded steel. Included in this line is a red fox, a lynx, and a tiger. images via Selçuk Yilmaz via Colossal

The Scalevo is an electric wheelchair capable of climbing or descending stairs with tank-like treads mounted beneath the chair’s two balanced wheels. The project is a collaboration between students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the Zurich University of the Arts. The team working on the Scalevo hopes to be able to increase […]

Artist Duncan Meerding has crafted a beautiful line of lamps that can be used as stools or tables from salvaged logs that were considered to be imperfect because of the deep cracks and crevices within the wood and destined to be burned. Instead, Meerding used the imperfections to allow the light to playfully peek through, […]

Norwegian filmmaker Nikolai Schirmer recently took some awesome first-person GoPro footage that he captured while skiing down a glacier in Norway and reimagined it as a real world 8-bit video game.

San Francisco-based artist Mark Krawczuk is the creator of the Lost Horizon Night Market, an ongoing event that features box trucks that contain unique interactive exhibitions. Krawczuk is looking to expand the project outward to organize events around the US. He and his partner Kasey Smith, collectively known as Everyhere Logistics, have rebooted their Kickstarter […]

“Love & League” is a charming short documentary by Riot Games about couples who play the popular video game League of Legends together. The documentary follows four different couples and explores how playing together fits into their lives. What’s it like playing League with your significant other? We followed four couples to find out. From […]

“Metallica Goes To Punjab” is another seamless mashup by Wax Audio that features the mournful sound of “Mundian To Bach Ke” by Panjabi MC combined with the menacing sound of the Metallica song “The Four Horsemen“. The songs in their original forms.

“Breathe Again” is a powerful ad campaign for the Chinese air purification company Xiao Zhu where images of crying babies were projected onto the thick, stifling smog emitted by local factories. While the company may have had advertising as their primary agenda, it didn’t minimize the impact of the message of the actual harm being […]

“Likeness” is an Instagram specific photo project by celebrity photographer Chris Buck, in which he poses a 3D-printed miniature version of himself that he had created with a DOOB printer, in interesting situations with unusual characters. Buck told Time that the miniature represents the events of his own life, but even more so. The pictures […]

“10 Hours Of Walking In Kings Landing As A Woman” by Funny or Die is a clever parody of the popular statement video “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman” in which a woman clad in black walked silently through the streets of New York City to document what was being said about […]

A recent video by Arika Okrent provides an illustrated evolution of the word “dude” from its very-specific origin as a way to describe a particular type of “shallow, fashion-obsessed dandy” in the 1880s, to modern times when it can be used to mean just about anything. via Boing Boing

Vat19, a company known for their fun gummy products, has created a Gummy Pizza in a Box that looks like the real thing. It is currently available to purchase online. It’s delivery and it’s gummy! Grab a slice of sugary perfection with the Gummy Pizza in a Box, an eight inch gummy pizza that looks […]

In a 2013 YouTube video, a series of bladeless Dyson fans create an infinitely looping track for balloons inside the Yodobashi Camera store in Sapporo, Japan. via Hamusoku, RocketNews24

Sony revealed that Shenmue III, the long-awaited sequel to the popular Shenmue video game series, was launching a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help produce it during their E3 2015 press event. Legendary game designer and director Yu Suzuki is, as always, at the helm of the latest Shenmue. Where we left off… Ryo Hazuki has […]

Boston, Massachusetts-based creatives Quinton Kappel, Evan Richards, and Joanna Lee of Brickyard VFX have made We Have a Dinosaur, a great new YouTube channel featuring special effects-filled videos of people dealing with the “joys and perils of dinosaur ownership.” In episode one, titled “Breakfast,” a Velociraptor tests the patience of its owner by slowly pushing […]

The DURUS is a highly efficient walking robot by SRI International that boasts an impressively low cost of transport. It was recently presented at the annual DARPA Robotics Competition where it was part of an endurance competition. DURUS is actually just the lower half of SRI’s humanoid robot named PROXI, which focuses on being a highly […]

The latest animated episode of How It Should Have Ended features the second and final part of an alternate ending for Avengers: Age Of Ultron, the 2015 superhero film based on the Marvel superhero team the Avengers. It features character art and animation work by Daniel Baxter, with background artwork by Otis Frampton. Here is […]

Adorable four-year-old Léa recently went for her first exhilarating aerobatic airplane ride with her father, and giggled wildly as the plane flipped and rolled around the sky. Her father warmed Léa up to the acrobatics with a some simple maneuvers a few months earlier to get her used to them. via reddit, The Awesomer

Jango the dog demonstrates how he can sneeze on command for tasty treats in a video by MWHomeland. According to the child in the background, he also knows how to dance. via Tastefully Offensive

An adorably cooperative cat named Gaigai wuwu uses his flat furry feet to effortlessly balance a variety of household items including a beer can, an egg, a toy car and even a hand of cards between his toes. images via Tainan Dumb Aberdeen via RocketNews24

Sketch comedy group Practical Folks have created a parody of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt song “Pinot Noir” about the Game of Thrones character Jaqen H’ghar. For comparison, here is the original “Pinot Noir” as performed by Titus Andromedon (Tituss Berguss). via Boing Boing

Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska, who uses a laser engraver to carve custom designs into wooden embossing rolling pins, has created a number of new elegantly designed pins–including a set specifically made for kids. In addition to these new designs, Kozerska will also create customized pins to order. These embossing rolling pins are made from solid […]

“Endless Gravity” is a short film by Alex Soloviev comprised of beautiful 14-bit RAW video of underwater life paired with music by Astropilot and the poem “The Sea-Limits” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Monzter by German street artist Kim Kwacz is an interactive picture book app that sends users on a gorgeously illustrated adventure in search of friendly monsters hiding inside abandoned Berlin buildings, where users are invited to move through the plot at their own pace, asking questions along the way. How high is the sky? Why […]

Keyboardio is a programmable and adjustable sculpted wood keyboard made from solid maple. The Keyboardio features programmable keys and open-source software for full customization. The designers put a lot of effort into making the Keyboardio an incredibly comfortable and accurate typing tool. The developers are currently raising funds to bring the Keyboardio to market with […]

Just Bubbly has created hypoallergenic vegan soaps that shaped like individual chemical elements from the periodic table. Each soap is distinctly labeled and those marked as radioactive elements glow in the dark. It’s Elementary Periodic Table of Element Soaps are sure to be a hit with all-from science buffs, science buffs, to chemical engineers to […]

reprogaming Mountain View, California-based software engineer James Dowdell recently reprogrammed the ending to The Legend of Zelda video game for the classic NES console to propose to his girlfriend and wedding photographer Natalie Martin. Dowdell edited the in-game version of Princess Zelda to look like Natalie, turned the “Triforce tile to a ring tile”, added […]

Sony revealed a gorgeous short teaser for a remake by Square Enix of the immensely popular 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII at their E3 2015 press event. Details on the remake are sparse at current, though it appears to be coming to the PlayStation 4 first.