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How to Make a Paper Boomerang

How to Make a Paper Boomerang

With a little practice, tossing a boomerang can be a fun and rewarding outdoor activity. In this clip, boomerang expert Victor Poulin shows us how to make a boomerang that’s safe to toss indoors thanks to its paper origami construction. If you want a handmade wooden boomerang, be sure to check out Vic’s shop.

Torn Paper Portrait

Torn Paper Portrait

Artist DP Truong shows off another one of their unconventional portrait techniques, this time creating an image using torn-up scraps of paper. The portrait pays tribute to the late Vietnamese actor Hoang Dung. Blowing away the scraps at the end serves as a sort of cinematic goodbye.

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Gift Wrap R/C Plane

Gift Wrap R/C Plane

Josh over at FliteTest wanted to put together something fun and easy-to-build after the holidays, so he took some leftover wrapping paper and used it to form the wings for a remote-controlled airplane. The glider-style wing design is pretty nifty.

LEGO Note Bricks

LEGO Note Bricks
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These colorful note sheets are covered with a LEGO baseplate design on one side, and a blank writing surface on the other. Sold in boxes of 224 sheets in blue/green or yellow/orange color schemes. The LEGO stationary collection also includes erasers and a journal.

POWERUP 4.0 Plane + Flight Manual Bundle

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This lightweight, carbon-fiber airframe converts paper, foam, balsa, or cardboard planes into motor-driven aircraft. A smartphone app controls flight via Bluetooth and makes flying easy. This bundle includes the POWERUP paper airplane book, which includes templates for a number of cool airplane designs.

Post-It Extreme Notes

Post-It Extreme Notes
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A durable variant of the ubiquitous sticky note. 3M’s Post-It Extreme Notes will stay whole and stick even when they get hot, cold or wet. Use them in the kitchen, the garage and more. They just won’t stick to surfaces that are already wet.

Making Paper from Scratch

Making Paper from Scratch

The pulp that goes into making paper comes from trees. But there’s a big difference between the way a paper mill churns out bleached white sheets, and the steps required to make paper from scratch. How To Make Everything walks us through the process. It took about 28 hours of labor to produce their first crude sheet.

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How Strong Is Paper?

How Strong Is Paper?

The guys at the Hydraulic Press Channel have been causing paper to explode under pressure for quite some time now. In this clip they attempt to measure just how much force a stack of paper can endure before failing spectacularly.

Totally Tubular Paper Airplane

Totally Tubular Paper Airplane

Most paper airplanes have straight-edged wings that stick out from their center. But this peculiar paper flyer looks more like the core of a toilet paper roll than something that can get airborne. WIRED and paper airplane expert John Collins show us how to make one of these surprisingly aerodynamic paper planes.

Pack This! Pad

Pack This! Pad
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This handy checklist will make sure that you bring all of the things you need when you travel. It has 60 tear-off pages to cover numerous trips. Stick it somewhere visible and start ticking some boxes.

Folding Stunt Airplanes

Folding Stunt Airplanes

Want to fold some awesome paper airplanes? Learn from the best. John Collins aka “The Paper Airplane Guy” got together with WIRED to show off some of his stunt flyers, and how to fold your own. Be sure to check out the second video for more detailed folding instructions.

Pad of Butter Notepad

Pad of Butter Notepad
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Everything is better with butter, even this tastefully novel notepad. Chronicle Books’ Pad of Butter is a cholesterol-free kitchen staple for making grocery lists, jotting down recipes, stuffing stockings, and pranking Paula Deen (who we imagine would place it on a real butter dish). Contains 480 sheets, zero saturated fat.

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To Do List Notepad

To Do List Notepad
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If you’re like us, you’ve got lots of things on your to do list. Keep track of the most important stuff with these Sh*t I Gotta F*cking Get Done notepads. Each 6″ x 9″ notepad has 50 lined pages for you to scribble down your tasks on. Sold as a pack of two.

Hydraulic Press Paper Explosions

Hydraulic Press Paper Explosions

We already know that stacked paper is one of the most explosive things you can put under a hydraulic press. Now, let’s find out what kind of paper makes the biggest boom, as the Hydraulic Press Channel tests paperback books, playing cards, paper pulp, and more under the pressure of their 144-ton press.

Field Notes Autumn Trilogy

Field Notes Autumn Trilogy

Field Notes latest Quarterly Edition is series of beautiful fall-themed memo books, each with an embossed and debossed image of a leaf on its cover. The three-pack of 48-page notebooks includes North American sugar maple, American elm, and scarlet oak designs. Annual subscribers get a special-edition fall leaf bandana.

Corridor: Topographe

Corridor: Topographe

Jonathan Robert & Gabriel Favreau’s animated music video for Quebec band Corridor takes us on a wild trip through a fantastical structure filled with elevators, staircases, cable cars, and other vertical conveyances that all lead towards an almighty computer that controls man and machine.

Endless Paper Airplane

Endless Paper Airplane

In this brief clip from ViralVideoLab, they show off a simple way to make a paper airplane remain airborne for a very long time. The trick requires just the right kind of plane, and a series of small fans to keep it circling in the air. You can find folding instructions for the plane here.

How to Make Recycled Paper

How to Make Recycled Paper

Shmoxd shows us how to make recycled paper using readily available materials. He then adds texture and color to the new paper by adding different bits like plants, food and even shredded electronics. But will it blend?

Rite in the Rain Paper

Rite in the Rain Paper

If you doodle or take notes outdoors, you’ll want to grab some Rite in the Rain notebooks, which are filled with paper that won’t get damaged if it gets wet. Available in a wide variety of formats, including paper for laser printers. Works best with a pencil or their special pen.

Can You Shred Paper with LEGO?

Can You Shred Paper with LEGO?

The aptly-named Brick Experiment Channel decided to see if they could make a paper shredder using only LEGO components. While the motor and gearing was pretty simple to set up at first, getting Technic gears to actually shred paper took some serious experimentation.

Synthesizer Paper Goods

Synthesizer Paper Goods
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Etsy seller synthesizakkar handmakes notebooks, memo pads, calendars, sticky notes, and other office supplies inspired by classic synthesizers like the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, and the Roland SH-101. The memo pads even include analog knobs that turn.

Best Pocket Notebooks: 2019

Best Pocket Notebooks: 2019

It’s always a good idea to have a pocket-sized notebook on hand to sketch down ideas, write measurements, or just doodle something creative. The fine folks at Everyday Carry have picked their 10 current faves, From the classic Field Notes to our go-to Word. notebooks.

Burger Sticky Notes

Burger Sticky Notes
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While we prefer american or cheddar over swiss cheese on our burgers, at least this set of 160 sticky notes includes two all-beef patties, and a proper sesame seed bun for you to write on. Would you like fries with that?

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