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Dreamfarm is always coming up with useful and unique kitchen gadgets. The Flegg is designed to cook perfectly round eggs for breakfast sandwiches and topping off ramen. Made from heat-resistant, non-stick silicone, it perfectly contains a single egg, can flip it over and deposit it onto your plate. Sold as a set of two.

Unless you’re into that sort of thing, you never want to be on the business end of a whip. After learning how to use a bullwhip, YouTuber Mike Shake wanted to know if making one out of stronger, heavier materials would make the whip more powerful. It’s not as easy to wield a chain whip, but it’s definitely more dangerous.

If you browse YouTube regularly, you might have noticed certain trends and similarities between the most popular videos, from how their titles and thumbnails are presented to their duration. MinuteEarth explores this convergence and how video creators adapting to algorithms works kind of like animal evolution.

We’ve all seen those robotic vacuum cleaners. The Grain Weevil is like that, only it’s designed to safely spread out and level loose grain in silos. This hard-working little ‘bot roams around silos, zig-zagging through the grain and pushing it around with its screw drive treads and shovel. Multiple robots can also work together to maintain larger silos.

This versatile bike repair tool packs a punch in a small package. Functions include flat and Phillips screwdrivers, socket wrenches, a spoke wrench, nut drivers, and hex keys in various metric sizes. It’s the perfect size to fit in bike seat bags.

Varda Space Industries shared this POV footage of its space capsule returning to Earth at speeds up to Mach 25. At first, we see the blackness of space, then the Earth appears, and the capsule generates sparks as it re-enters the atmosphere. The launch and reentry was a joint effort between Varda, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and the FAA.

It’s all ball bearings nowadays. Given the ubiquity of these smooth-spinning widgets, it’s interesting to see how they’re made. Process X takes us inside the JTEKT Corporation, Japan’s highest-volume ball bearing factory. Watching millions of steel spheres rolling their way through the automated production line is reason enough to hit play. Turn captions on.

This palm-sized screwdriver from K20 Tools is just 3″ long, so it goes anywhere you go. It holds a standard 1/4″ driver bit and has a magnet in its tail. Its stainless steel body has square sides, so it won’t roll off your tabletop. Comes with a pocket clip and a double-headed flat/Phillips bit.

Astrophysicists estimate that our universe came into existence roughly 14 billion years ago, and it’s been expanding ever since. Kurzgesagt ponders the question whether the universe is truly infinite if it keeps growing, or if it has an edge somewhere that we just can’t see.

Moon Mystery is an ambitious FPS that started as a solo effort and has grown to a 15-person project. The game’s creator says they took inspiration from Interstellar, Half-Life 2, and Firewatch to create its diverse environments and sci-fi story about a mysterious black hole. It’s still a work in progress, but you can add it to your Steam wishlist here.

If you’ve played Minecraft, you know to steer clear of Creepers. These bespeckled hostile mobs will blow you to smithereens. The Slow Mo Guys dropped by the Colorado School of Mines with a real-world version of the explosive enemy and detonated it in front of their high-speed camera. After a small test, they got a much bigger boom from a charged Creeper.

Diesel Brothers Heavy D and Diesel Dave know a thing or two about modding vehicles. For this build, they outfitted a Tesla Cybertruck with an upgraded suspension and giant snow tracks. This clip teases us with footage of their CyberTrax electric pickup dashing through the snow. They plan on releasing a full-length video on YouTube soon.

Some people have tried to make unconventional umbrellas, but for the most part, a traditional design is the most efficient way to keep raindrops from falling on your head. In this clip from Randall Munroe and Henry Reich’s What If? series, they explore a hypothetical and impractical invention – a powerful laser that vaporizes raindrops out of the sky as they fall.

NECA’s 10″ tall version of OmniCorp’s ED-209 crimefighting robot perfectly matches the one on-screen. It’s fully poseable with a moving head, legs, arm wing panels, and cannon arms. It’s the perfect match for NECA’s 7″ RoboCop figures, and it makes mechanical sounds and speaks, “Warning: throw down your weapon. You have 15 seconds to comply.”

Etsy seller The Hrdwood makes these elegant wooden headphone stands that put your over-the-ear cans in a place of honor instead of lying on a tabletop or stuffed into a drawer. They come in two versions – a smooth arch or a stair-stepped tunnel design. Each stand is handmade from your choice of walnut or light ash wood.

When you heat fluids, they typically produce patterns. Science expert Steve Mould built a special rig that lets us see how these turbulent patterns emerge when applying heat. He tested with a few different liquids and particles to visualize these fascinating flows. Things get really interesting when mixing oil with mica.

This handy gadget converts a spare Zippo lighter case into a pocket screwdriver. It fits all Classic Zippo cases and provides a magnetic bit driver where the flame usually would be, along with storage for three bits on its underside. The set includes four bits: #1 Phillips, #2 Phillips, #2 Flat, and T20 Torx.

Thanks to their sturdy exoskeletons, claws, and ability to regenerate limbs, crustaceans are some of the most interesting animals on Earth. TierZoo takes an in-depth look at these hard-shelled arthropods and stacks up the offenses, defenses, and other abilities of these crusty creatures, from the lowly barnacle to the mighty mantis shrimp.

Iñigo Arroyo is a master of BMX flatland freestyle and a professional circus performer. In this short clip, he shows off a neat stunt where he removes the front wheel of his bicycle while riding, continues to balance on it as a unicycle, and then reattaches the wheel. Watch this longer video for more of Iñigo’s balancing badassery.

This handy pocket tool from Trixie & Milo combines 18 functions in one piece of stainless steel. In addition to 10 hex wrenches, it has a pry bar, flat head and Phillips screwdrivers, a cutting tool, a nail puller, a short ruler, and the must-have of every multitool – a bottle opener. It also looks like it could be good for self-defense.

You could use those vacuum space bags to fit extra clothes into your suitcase, or you could go for the overkill method. Lauri and Hanna from the Hydraulic Press Channel used their 150-ton industrial press to squeeze clothes into compact pucks to maximize packing efficiency. It went smoothly, but it’s the unpacking part that might be more challenging.

These limited-run D6 dice from CountyComm are precision-machined from Ultem. This heat-resistant, translucent amber polymer is quickly becoming one of our favorite materials. It’s typically used to make products like circuit boards, aircraft parts, and eyeglass frames, but recently, it’s been turning up in EDC items like pens and compasses. Sold in pairs.

This limited edition 9-function pocket knife features textured aluminum scales in a natural Terra Brown color. Its tools include a reamer/punch, scissors, a can opener, 3 mm and 7 mm flat-blade screwdrivers, a wire stripper, a bottle opener, a knife, and a key ring. The front side has the iconic Victorinox Swiss seal, while the back is printed with 2024.