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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.

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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.

HI Maintenance

HI Maintenance

A couple’s ups and downs, as punctuated by the word “hi.” Actor and musician Jacob Anderson aka Raleigh Ritchie aka Game of Thrones’ Grey Worm wrote, directed and starred in this short film for Topman. The song is Cowards from his album You’re a Man Now, Boy.

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Samurai Captain America Action Figure

Samurai Captain America Action Figure
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Shield. Sword. Shuriken. Bandai’s latest Manga Realization action figure is an armored samurai version of Captain America. The action figure is nearly 7″ tall and comes with four swappable hands and a star logo that doubles as a shuriken.

Scorn (Gameplay)

Scorn (Gameplay)

(Gore) A first-person horror adventure featuring dark and creepy imagery that clearly draws inspiration from the work of the late, great artist H.R. Giger. Its gross organic environments and weapons are almost scarier than the enemies at this point in development.

2018 Polaris Slingshot

2018 Polaris Slingshot

We spent the day on the winding canyon roads above the Malibu coast driving the 2018 Polaris Slingshot – the latest generation of this slick 3-wheeled sports car – to see if this power toy is as much fun as it looks.

Babish: Hors D’oeuvres Sandwich

Babish: Hors D’oeuvres Sandwich

Binging with Babish takes on another classic movie meal by replicating Rodney Dangerfield’s improvised delicacy from Back to School – a sandwich made from small food – including deviled eggs, meatballs, and spanakopita, stuffed into a big hunk of Italian bread.

Rally Bentley Continental GT

Rally Bentley Continental GT

This mud- and rock-loving Bentley was built for the Nat Geo UK series Supercar Megabuild, and now it can be yours. It’s got an external roll cage with tire and jerry can storage, off-road suspension, lug tires, skid plates, racing lights and more. See it in action here.

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Graphing YouTube’s Biggest Videos

Graphing YouTube’s Biggest Videos

Abacaba used a combination of line graphs and sounds to represent the history of YouTube’s most popular viral videos from Charlie Bit my Finger to Gangnam Style to Despacito. Frankly, we’re not sure the sounds added much value, but the moving chart was fascinating.

Making a Fancy Wood Beer Koozie

Making a Fancy Wood Beer Koozie

Most beer koozies are made from foam or fabric. But Ollari’s shows us how to make a super slick koozie from carefully segmented blocks of walnut, maple, and padouk, glued together, then turned on a lathe. A layer of clear lacquer protects it from condensation.

Isn’t She Lovely: Fingerstyle Cover

Isn’t She Lovely: Fingerstyle Cover

12-year-old guitarist Lanvy is the very personification of the song she’s performing, as she deftly makes her way through Stevie Wonder’s 1976 classic Isn’t She Lovely on her beautifully embellished Luna guitar.

Man Crates’ Caveman Crate

Man Crates’ Caveman Crate
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Fill up your favorite protein lover’s belly with the delicious jerkies and nuts in Man Crates’ Caveman Crate. It comes with buffalo, beef, turkey, and venison jerky, along with tasty butter toffee almonds and chili citrus cashews, all packed in a sturdy wood crate.

Could We Build a Planet?

Could We Build a Planet?

It’s the stuff of science fiction at this point, but it’s certainly worth exploring the idea that building a planet capable of supporting human life could be an alternative to colonizing an existing, less hospitable planet. Life Noggin ponders this question in this all-too-short video.

EDC Trending Gear: 8/17

EDC Trending Gear: 8/17

Our pals at Everyday Carry gathered up the best gear they spotted last month, from useful and beautifully-designed knives, to tools that stow in an iPhone case, to compact and easy to carry wallets. But what we want most is that stunning bronze Helberg CH6 wristwatch.

Sony 3D Creator

Sony 3D Creator

Sony’s Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact phones come with a 3D scanning app, which can capture images of faces, heads, food, or other objects along with a 3D depth map, resulting in impressively detailed 3D models which can be used in other apps, or even output to a 3D print.

Despacito: Calculator Edition

Despacito: Calculator Edition

There are already a gazillion cover versions of the Luis Fonsi megahit Despacito, but we can honestly say this is the first time we’ve heard it played on a couple of musical calculators. Is it wrong that we like this version better?

Once Upon a Time in Pulp Fiction

Once Upon a Time in Pulp Fiction

(Gore) Filmmaker and editor Antonio Maria Da Silva pays tribute to two masterpieces of cinema – Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. The result is a crazy tense scene that had us on the edge of our seats the entire time.

Lomo’Instant Square Camera

Lomo’Instant Square Camera

Lomography makes Fujifilm’s Instax square film even more of a nostalgia bomb with the Lomo’Instant Square Camera. The analog shooter has a compact bellows mechanism, a 95mm glass lens, long and unlimited exposure modes and much more.

Dunkey Reviews The Shining

Dunkey Reviews The Shining

(PG-13: Language) Videogamedunkey casts his analytical eye on his favorite horror film, The Shining. It’s a movie that needs no further introduction. But until every single human being has watched it, we think it qualifies as underappreciated.

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