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Wedding Dronetography

Wedding Dronetography

Awesomer reader OrionFyre spotted this gem from a couple of years back, in which a wedding photographer explains how great it is to shoot nuptials with a DJI Phantom 3 drone. Of course DJI’s original video was missing the the all-important original audio track.

Mandem Safe Shoebox Safe

Mandem Safe Shoebox Safe

Hypebeast hideout. The Mandem Safe is a small safe that’s meant to sit inside an adidas shoebox. It comes with two keycards and has a foam inlay. There’s also an upcoming Nike shoebox variant. Let’s just hope you don’t have thieves who like to steal shoes.

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Portugal. The Man Covers Oasis

Portugal. The Man Covers Oasis

Alt-pop hitmakers Portugal. The Man turn in a fantastic acoustic cover version of the Oasis classic Don’t Look Back in Anger that’s every bit as good as the original, in no small part thanks to John Gourley’s voice. We’re going to be humming this chorus for the rest of the day.

Bringing the Sun to the Earth

Bringing the Sun to the Earth

Kurzgesagt’s latest thought experiment explores what might happen to us if we somehow managed to load up bits of the Sun brought them right here to Earth. Depending on which part you captured, it could simply vanish, or destroy life as we know it.

LEGO Old Fishing Store

LEGO Old Fishing Store
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One of the best kits to surface from the LEGO Ideas site isn’t a branded tie-in like most. Instead, it’s an awesomely detailed little sea shanty filled with nautical items. Designer Robert Bontenbal (aka RobenAnne) knocked it out of the park with this 2049 piece kit.

Sphero R2-D2 & BB-9E Robots

Sphero R2-D2 & BB-9E Robots

Sphero follows up its neat BB-8 droid with R2-D2 and BB-9E (a new character that will appear in Star Wars: The Last Jedi). The R2-D2 toy has a built-in speaker for its trademark bleeps and bloops, while the BB-9E toy has the same fascinating spherical body as BB-8.

The True Meaning of Pancake Cat

The True Meaning of Pancake Cat

A photo of a smirking cat sitting next to a stack of pancakes (aka “blin” in Russia) has been making the rounds for a while now, and YouTuber Dexturt couldn’t resist digging deeper into the cat’s state of mind with this amusing and heartfelt analysis.

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Vobot Smart Alarm Clock

Vobot Smart Alarm Clock
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The Vobot works not only as an alarm clock, but can stream media from Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn, and offers Amazon Alexa integration for checking weather, traffic, and news, smarthome control, and requesting services like taxis or food deliveries.

Crushing a Fridge with an Anvil

Crushing a Fridge with an Anvil

If you’re going to drop an anvil from 150 feet up, chances are whatever it lands on will be toast. Suffice it to say that’s exactly what happened to the refrigerator How Ridiculous set up at the bottom of a tower. Skip to 5:07 if you don’t mind missing some soda can destruction.

Music of Memes (1700-2017)

Music of Memes (1700-2017)

You’ll recognize most of these meme-worthy tunes, each of which epitomizes a moment in time as well as just about anything else about the era. Though we think JordiTK should have gone with Yello’s Oh Yeah instead of Trio’s Da Da Da to represent ’80s German minimalism.

Parallax.4: The Employees

Parallax.4: The Employees

“Employees have no individual sentience. Only the group is aware of itself.” After identifying Earth’s prime inhabitants, the aliens in Adam Westbrook’s mockumentary look at the perfect drones. They replicate and recharge on their own, but are too dumb to escape their fate.

Poler Pendleton Towel Poncho

Poler Pendleton Towel Poncho
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Poler’s oversized wearable towel is the perfect companion for surfers, swimmers and other beach bums. Made in collaboration with Pendleton, the Towel Poncho sports the wool expert’s iconic Crater Lake pattern.

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Operating an Abandoned Crane

Operating an Abandoned Crane

(PG-13: Language) Renegade explorer shiey and his pals snuck their way into an abandoned factory somewhere in Eastern Europe, where they came across a big old industrial overhead crane. To their surprise, the machine wasn’t just connected to power, but it still works.

Pinball FX 3

Pinball FX 3

Zen Studios’ excellent digital pinball series gets a major upgrade, adding online multiplayer and user-generated tournaments, and kicks off with three new tables based on Universal films: Jaws, Back to the Future, and E.T. Coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One 9/26/17.

Slip ‘N Slide BASE Jump

Slip ‘N Slide BASE Jump

Devin “Supertramp” Graham assembled a group of daredevils, who donned parachutes, then slid down a soap-covered Slip ‘N Slide off of a 500 foot cliff for this epic stunt. The Subaru product placement is a bit in your face, but Devin’s gotta pay the bills too. BTS vid here.

Photojojo Lens Pillows

Photojojo Lens Pillows
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You don’t need to be careful with these camera lenses. Photojojo’s handmade pillows feature embroidered details such as the F-stops and the auto-focus switch. Available in Nikon and Canon variants, each limited to only 100 pieces.

MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept

MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept

The sickest looking MINI ever. It sports an aggressive new grille, a carbon fiber aero kit, awesome Union Jack taillamps, and a stripped down interior with a roll cage and racing seats. No word yet on power or other performance improvements, but it’ll surely pack many.

Facts About LEGO Bricks

Facts About LEGO Bricks

Mental Floss trivia maven John Green is here to regale us with 26 random tidbits about everyone’s favorite plastic building blocks. We’re betting that original UCS Millennium Falcon just lost a whole lot of its resale value.

Onnit x Star Wars Fitness Equipment

Onnit x Star Wars Fitness Equipment
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Go from Jabba the Hutt to Jango Fett with the help of Onnit’s Star Wars-themed equipment. The collection consists of three different kettlebells – Darth Vader, Boba Fett and Stormtrooper – a Han Solo yoga mat and a Death Star slam ball.

UNO Titanium Pen

UNO Titanium Pen

A supremely minimal writing instrument, CNC machined from solid grade 5 titanium. The UNO features a twist-to-retract sleeve that protects its tip and doubles as a finger grip, while its skinny rear is just barely wider than its ink refill.

Custom Game of Thrones Catan Board

Custom Game of Thrones Catan Board

All men must trade. Redditor carlotta4th spent hundreds of hours learning the ins and outs of laser cutting to make a beautiful Settlers of Catan board game set with cities and settlements based on the major houses in Game of Thrones.

2018 Nissan LEAF EV

2018 Nissan LEAF EV

The frog has become a prince with Nissan’s redesigned electric car. Its sleek new design speaks for itself, and it packs 38% more power (147 hp), 26% more torque (236 lb-ft.), and 40% more range (150mi) than the 2017 model. A longer-range edition will come in 2019.

Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Spoof

Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Spoof

“Is there anyone who isn’t worthy of this horrible hammer?!” ArtSpear Entertainment makes the god of thunder even dumber than he is in this nicely animated spoof of the Thor: Ragnarok trailer. It’s still not as funny as the fact that we paid to see Thor 2 though.

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