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Making Edible R/C Airplanes

Making Edible R/C Airplanes

Most remote-controlled airplanes are made from lightweight materials like styrofoam or carbon fiber. Not one to be constrained by norms, maker Peter Sripol and his pals wanted to see if they could build aircraft made almost entirely from food — the ingredient list: puffed rice, barley, tortillas, and caramelized sugar.

Ken with a Cat

Ken with a Cat

OwlKitty is back with another laugh-out-loud movie edit. This time around, the photogenic cat is stealing scenes from Barbie and taking her rightful place alongside Ken. This also makes us wonder if there’s a Weird OwlKitty – and we’re not talking about Blissa.

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Life-Size 3D-Printed Self Portrait

Life-Size 3D-Printed Self Portrait

After Matty Benedetto got his hands on a large-bed Creality 3D printer, he wanted to create something that could only be made on such a device. His plan? Create a life-size sculpture of himself that greets visitors when they come to his studio. It took a lot of time and filament to produce his plastic avatar, but the result was worth it.

Paper Shredder Car

Paper Shredder Car

Other than bank statements and bills, we don’t find ourselves shredding too much paper these days. Artist Japhy Riddle took a paper shredder and turned it into a vehicle of sorts. Rather than applying power to its wheels, the shredder car moves as it pulls a roll of tractor-feed paper through its shredding teeth.

The Kiffness x Scary Cat: I Need Something

The Kiffness x Scary Cat: I Need Something

The Kiffness has made a career out of turning silly animal sounds into songs. This time, he started with footage of an orange tabby making noises that vaguely sound like a human with a mouth full of gauze. But once The Kiff added his music and vocals, it all makes perfect sense to us.

Bonehead Folding Comb + Brush

Bonehead Folding Comb + Brush
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Can’t get your kids to comb their hair? This might help. Fred’s Bonehead comb and brush combo folds up to look like a dinosaur’s skull. Open its jaws and let it chomp down on hair to remove tangles, so your kiddo doesn’t look like an unkempt caveman anymore. Made from durable but flexible ABS plastic.

Animals with Incorrect Names

Animals with Incorrect Names

Guinea pigs are neither from Guinea nor are they pigs. But that didn’t stop scientists from naming them that. Language expert Name Explain talks us through some other improperly-named animals, like the mountain chicken and the bearcat, and explains the origins of their monikers.

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A Literal Chatbot

A Literal Chatbot

The term “chatbot” is typically associated with those frustrating customer service AI gatekeepers before chatting with a real human. But in the case of this Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot, the chatbot has four legs and can walk. Engineers from the robotics company used ChatGPT and other AI models to enable Spot to answer questions and act as a tour guide.

Unconventional Yo-Yos

Unconventional Yo-Yos

When YouTuber Aboringday isn’t overpowering toys with too much electricity, he’s doing other stupid things, like turning everyday objects into yo-yos. He starts out with plastic fan blades and wall clocks, then ramps up the danger by using circular saw blades. Other highlights include an ice yo-yo and one made from ping pong paddles.

The Star Wars Christmas Parade

The Star Wars Christmas Parade

If retailers can put their Christmas decorations out before Halloween, we can, too. In this silly holiday edit from Auralnauts, Vader pitches the idea of a Life Day (er, Christmas) parade to Palpatine. Set against the snowy backdrop of Hoth, Santa guides his AT-AT reindeer to deliver a load of gifts to the good little Rebels.

Living the Dream

Living the Dream

With greedflation on the rise and personal incomes not keeping up, it’s not easy to make a decent living these days. Animator Ben Meinhardt’s short film Living the Dream offers a darkly comedic look at modern life for a guy who graduates from school and leaves his parents’ house only to face a harsh reality in the big city.

Hot Wheels Hot Dogs

Hot Wheels Hot Dogs

What’s the laziest way to grill hot dogs? If you’re Pablo Rochat, you send them there on a Hot Wheels track on a tiny wienermobile. Like any good overengineered solution, he could have grilled 100 hot dogs in the time it took him to set up the track. Turns out this isn’t the first time Pablo played with his wieners.

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Bob Ross with Sauce

Bob Ross with Sauce

The guys from Corridor Crew are usually wowing us with their visual effects work. But in this video, they took a break from creating art with computers and broke out real canvases to take a painting lesson from Bob Ross. But instead of acrylics or oils, they painted their happy little scenes with sauces and condiments. We can only imagine how the studio smelled after this.

AI Learns to Run a 100m Dash

AI Learns to Run a 100m Dash

Proving you must crawl before you walk or run, AI Warehouse tasked a group of five AI agents with completing a 100-meter dash. Each was trained using Deep Reinforcement Learning to reward them for correct behaviors and punish them for incorrect ones. Eventually, they get their boxy butts off the line and wobble their way through the course.

When You Forgot to Bring the Ladder

When You Forgot to Bring the Ladder

Say you find yourself on top of a building without a ladder. How can you get down without jumping to the ground? This industrious worker shows how he descended from a roof with two tall poles and a shovel, creating the world’s cheapest elevator in the process. Definitely file this one under “Don’t try this at home.”

Rubber Chicken Immigrant Song

Rubber Chicken Immigrant Song

If there’s any song that needed a rubber chicken remake, we’d say it’s Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song. Fortunately, Chickensan is here to fulfill our wishes, replacing Robert Plant’s iconic wail with the pained squawks of plastic poultry.

Saying Random Stuff in Movie Trailers

Saying Random Stuff in Movie Trailers

Trailers are carefully edited to get people hyped about upcoming movies. But Daniel Thrasher has a theory that it’s all about the action and never about the dialogue. To prove his point, he edited himself into various trailers and said some totally random stuff. It helps that he spoke with conviction, of course.

Driving a Citroën Ami Buggy

Driving a Citroën Ami Buggy

The Citroën Ami Buggy is what Carwow calls “the world’s smallest SUV.”  While we question the “sport” and “utility,” it’s definitely a vehicle. This sub-sub-compact car has open sides, plastic windows, and a sunroof held in place with a zipper and Velcro. With an 8 hp motor, it tops out at 28 mph. Mat Watson spent some time with this tiny EV, so you don’t have to.

Car Driveway Gate

Car Driveway Gate

You’re supposed to park your car in your driveway, not in front of it. This whimsical motorized gate in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil has a slice of a hatchback welded to its front, so it looks like the car is driving along the sidewalk whenever the gate opens or closes.

Great Write Pencil Sharpener

Great Write Pencil Sharpener
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We’re going to need a bigger eraser. This shark-shaped sharpener (sharkener?) is ready to chomp down on your pencils and give them a nice point that’s as sharp as a great white’s tooth. We don’t recommend attempting this with an actual shark even if you have a giant pencil.

Backflip: A Funny Short Film About Machine Learning

Backflip: A Funny Short Film About Machine Learning

After a failed attempt to do a backflip in real life, animator Nikita Diakur thought it would be safer to have a digital stand-in perform the maneuver. With the help of engineer Maximilian Schneider and machine learning tech based on the paper Deep Mimic, he attempted to nudge his avatar in the right direction to achieve his gymnastic goal.

Speed Racer’s Vehicle of Violence

Speed Racer’s Vehicle of Violence

If you watched the 1960s animated series Speed Racer, you might recall that the title character is supposed to be the good guy. But after editor AdventuresofSly got their hands on the series, they chopped it up to make it look like Speed is a deranged killer who uses his race car as a deadly weapon.

You Rock Candle

You Rock Candle
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Rock out at home with this candle made in the shape of the devil’s horns. The heavy metal hand gesture has been perfectly replicated by CandleHand using fragrance-free paraffin wax dyed black. It only burns for about an hour, though, so you might not ever want to light it. If you’re feeling a bit more angst, they also make a middle-finger candle.

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