A pair of headphones with a solar panel on the headband. The power that the panel gathers is stored in two batteries inside each ear cup, then harnessed via a USB port. It can also be plugged in to store power for later use.

Adrien Noterdaem’s latest entries on his Draw the Simpsons series are the characters from Game of Thrones. Though we have to say Samwell and Homer Hodor still look the same. He also Simpsonized George R.R. Martin.

Comedian Jay Larson recently guested on Conan and talked about the time someone mistakenly dialed his number. Like Norm Macdonald and John Mulaney, Larson’s strength comes not in the punchline but in the setup.

The 1977 Lotus Esprit submarine that James Bond drove in The Spy Who Loved Me will be auctioned off on 9/8/13. It actually works, if barely. It can’t turn into a car though. Lotus should buy it back for all the good it did them.

Directed by CANADA, this energetic video for the new song from Phoenix was shot live with two separate camera crews who kept having to run and set up for the next shot before the visible countdown timers ran out.

Disney Shorts keeps the hits coming with another amusing retro-style cartoon featuring Mickey, Minnie, and an elusive hot dog that leads Mickey on a chase through New York City. Betty White guest voices in this episode.

ICE Cord sells Timex wristwatches with wrist straps that have been replaced with paracord. You can customize the watch face, buckles and the paracord. Check out HikePRO if you just want a paracord watch band.

The second trailer for Jim Rash and Nat Faxon’s growing up comedy The Way, Way Back sees a young man find his confidence under the guidance of Sam Rockwell. Lucky kid. The song is Fitzpleasure by Alt-J.

An awesomely creepy robotic insect created using 3D-printed legs, 26 servo motors and special software algorithms which help it emulate the leg movements of a real spider. Arachnophobes, don’t hit the play button.

Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, has shown us how he cooks and what he sees; here, he responds to the popular request to draw various objects based on how he thinks they look. (Thanks Ben!)

The Balmain Boat Company sells flat-packed mini rowboat and sailboat kits. Each kit has most of what you need to build the boat, including nails and screws. It takes about 30 hours to put a boat together.

Ever wanted to float in space like an astronaut? It turns out that it’s less like floating, and more like a free-fall in orbit around the Earth. Watch and learn in this short TedEd lesson from Matt J. Carlson, animated by Josh Harris.

Like fellow Japanese giant Sony, Honda lives and dies by its engineers. The company pays tribute to its most prized assets in this simple but powerful commercial. If only inventing stuff was this easy.

Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest has received mixed reviews from critics for its reportedly extreme violence and preference of style over substance. At the very least, we got some new music out of it: the track is 2020 by Suuns.

Another product of Restoration Hardware’s current obsession with grimy 20th century curios, this imposing iron drink cabinet is based on a light bulb voltage tester from the 1920s. Perfect for supervillains and mad scientists.

We’ve seen a list of people who cheated death. Now here’s a list of people who died in unexpected ways. Some of them are dumb ways to go, but mostly these are just freak accidents. And also infections.

Rollerblader Maxime Genoud shows exactly why you want a suitcase with wheels on it, as he takes the downhill route to the train station in Lausanne, Switzerland. We doubt they’d let you get away with this in the airport though.

Like the Atom, the Mono and the X-Bow, the VUHL 05 is a lightweight street legal race car. It has a 2L 285hp EcoBoost engine and a monocoque chassis. It goes from 0-60mph in 3.7s and has a top speed of 152mph.

Watch weapon and prop maker Tony Swatton craft a life-size version of the Sword of Omens from Thundercats. It’s one of his most complicated builds yet, but the result is worth it. MAN AT ARMS HOOOO!!!

You may remember Denis Madri’s rockabilly interpretation of Batman characters. Well he has got more redesigns where that came from including these awesome Wild West styled illustrations for the Justice League.

Go for a stroll a jump, a sprint and a roll through Cambridge with this first person parkour video by James Kingston, aka the man who free climbed up a 315ft. high crane. We’d be clapping if we weren’t so dizzy.

When he’s not making Teslas, Elon Musk is running his private space exploration company, SpaceX. Here’s footage of their Grasshopper vertical-take-off/landing rocket flying to 1066 feet, then smoothly landing back on the pad.

Despite his size, Chewabacca likes to hide out in the most unlikely of places. First we found him in a cabinet door, and now he’s inside this guy’s electric guitar. Chewie, is that you?