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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.

Tiny Hats on Cats is a clever Instagram account created by BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis. Ellis handcrafts adorably detailed paper chapeaus for a very tolerant three-legged cat named Maxwell. images via Tiny Hats on Cats via Pleated Jeans

LEGO Will has created a wonderful LEGO version of the Doof Wagon from the popular film Mad Max: Fury Road. The speaker-stacked war machine also features a functional set of speakers. More photos of the LEGO “morale machine” are available to view on Flickr. photos by LEGO Will via Geek x Girls, Geeks Are Sexy

“Justify a Whole Lotta Love” by Wax Audio is an incredibly sensual mashup of “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin and “Justify My Love” by Madonna, each incredibly sensual songs in their own right. The songs in their original forms. Whole Lotta Love Justify My Love submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

EA DICE revealed a series of teaser trailers and gameplay footage as part of their E3 2015 presentation for Star Wars Battlefront, the upcoming third release in the Star Wars: Battlefront video game series. The action game will allow gamers to seamlessly switch between a first-person and third-person view while causing multiplayer chaos online or […]

San Francisco-based Munchery offers a restaurant-less way to order gourmet meals that are prepared daily by in-house chefs for home delivery at a reasonable price, either via their online menu or through their smartphone app. The menu changes daily and the meals are made with organic ingredients. Vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, nut-free and vegan options are […]

Filmmakers from Timestorm Films have captured some incredible footage of the April 22, 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile. The finished video incorporates 4K and 8K footage taken from several different cameras including a Canon 6D, Pentax 645Z, and a Sony a7. via Vimeo Staff Picks

The Last Guardian is a long-awaited video game about the relationship between a boy and a giant creature that features the two solving puzzles together. Though it has been in development for many, many years, Sony reintroduced the title during their E3 2015 press event with a trailer and expected release date of 2016 for […]

World record-holding limbo dancer Shemika Charles recently shimmied underneath a car. A story by Barcroft TV captured the unique feat as well as an interview with Charles as she discusses her uncommon accomplishments.

Travel agency Lawrence of Morocco has created a wonderfully informative map that shows where every episode of the HBO series Game of Thrones was filmed, specifically focusing on the beautiful areas of Morocco that were used to portray Astaphor, Pentos and Yunkai. One of the main attractions of the series is the stunning settings that […]

ThinkGeek has created an awesome ceramic mug that is shaped like a d20 die. The mug is ThinkGeek’s latest creation in a series of novelty items shaped like a twenty-sided die. It is currently available to purchase online. Pencils, paper, dice, miniatures, rule books. These are the essential components of a pen-and-paper gaming session. But […]

A clumsy Nao Robot hilariously slipped on the Frosted Raspberry Pop-Tart that it repeatedly tried to feed to Unbox Therapy‘s incredibly apprehensive dog who really wanted nothing to do with the little humanoid. Here’s Unbox Therapy unboxing their Nao. via Tastefully Offensive

To celebrate summer vacation, Evan Botello posted an amusing video of his brother spinning around in an office chair propelled by a gas-powered leaf blower. GIF via YouTube via Digg

image via Google Maps A Milwaukee man named Mark Gubin has maintained a “Welcome to Cleveland” sign painted on the roof of his building at 2893 South Delaware Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 1978. The sign can be seen by incoming aircraft landing at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport and has been the cause of some […]

Atlanta-based filmmaker Marcus Rosentrater, a senior animator behind the Archer television series, has created “Star Wars Wars“, a mind-bending full-length video of all six Star Wars films playing at once. The entire collection of still photos featuring the overlapping films are available to view on Imgur. images via maurcs via Esquire

Microsoft showcased an incredible demonstration of the video game Minecraft using the Microsoft HoloLens at their E3 2015 press event. The demonstration specifically shows off the various ways a player can manipulate the video game world with the help of the hologram-producing device. via Kotaku

The creative family behind Cupcakes by SJ has built a wonderful LEGO-themed wedding cake out of tiny fondant LEGO bricks. Their cake also features a team of worker minifigs who are rolling out a final layer of fondant icing over the visible bricks. photo via Cupcakes by SJ via Mashable

Moments is a new standalone app by Facebook that lets users privately share photos with friends from events like parties, weddings, or any other group activity. The app groups photos with facial recognition and time that they were taken, and once synced, everyone at the event can have access to the group’s photos. Favorites can […]