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This compact pocket tool is, first and foremost, a utility knife/box cutter. It has a retractable and replaceable blade with an easy-to-deploy thumb slider and a couple of other useful tools. Specifically, you’ll find a bottle opener, a 1/4″ hex driver, and a straight edge with measurement markers. It’s available in steel, titanium, and titanium+aluminum models.

(Flashing lights) Jacob Weldon’s gruesome horror short film BUG has a slick, neon-lit style inspired by the 1980s. But there’s nothing glossy about what happens to its protagonist after she gets bitten on her arm by a pesky fly. It makes us wonder if the bug was related to Jeff Goldblum’s infamous Brundlefly.

This PS5 exclusive drops players onto a future Earth devastated by an environmental catastrophe. You’ll spend your time searching for resources to equip and upgrade your airship base while you hunt for a cure for a deadly illness. It will offer solo and 2- to 4-player co-op gameplay. While there’s no word on a VR version, it looks well suited to the first-person medium.

The Hideout Robe comes from the makers of the cozy Big Blanket. It’s made from the same velvety-soft fabric as their blankets, along with a toasty sherpa lining. It has a built-in hood and eye mask to help with your relaxation, cuffed sleeves with thumb holes, and big front pockets for phones and remote controls. One size fits most up to size XXL.

The Karakuri Channel loves to make unique mechanical art. This time, they designed and built a gadget that turns nearly 300 brass nails into a moving wave. To make it work, they removed the tip of each nail and attached a sleeve and a ball bearing. A motor turns interchangeable discs against the balls to create wave patterns. Watch with subtitles.

When you start to play this video, you’ll see a line bouncing around the screen. But if you pause it, the line vanishes. Chris Long explores this strange persistence of vision effect, which occurs when a line of pixels changes state between black and white. The method can also be used to share hidden text that can only be seen when the video is playing.

Wade Wilson is trying to live a normal life once again. But it’s hard for any superhero to hang up their costume. Eventually, Wade finds himself pulled into not only a quest to save the multiverse, but to save the Marvel Cinematic Universe from itself. Then Logan shows up with his adamantium claws. In theaters 7.26.2024.

This Tyvek Mighty Wallet is nearly impossible to tear. It’s also mighty useful. It’s covered with useful information, like conversion charts, a protractor, geometry and physics equations, and more. Its edges provide inch, centimeter, and pica rulers too. As a wallet, it’s quite functional, too, with multiple card slots and a long main compartment for bills or receipts.

This documentary short film by Scott Krahn and Robb Fischer introduces us to three women who participate in a bowling league. While that may sound mundane, what makes their story compelling is that all of them live with visual impairments. It’s a charming tale of friendship and positivity in the face of obstacles.

If we had to pick our favorite living actor, Sam Rockwell is definitely in the running. His performances in films like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Green Mile, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind are all incredible and all so different. GQ sat down with the actor to learn about his inspirations and how he gets inside his characters.

David Gilmour’s guitar solo in Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb is something special. Musician Will Wilde performed the same part on harmonica and blew us away with his expressiveness. His 4-minute-long Freebird solo is amazing too.

Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal because they spread diseases like malaria and dengue. Scientists have developed a fascinating way to reduce this threat – infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia, a bacteria that limits mosquitoes’ ability to carry other diseases. To jumpstart the process, they’re releasing millions of infected bugs. AsapSCIENCE explains.

This specialized gadget from Strong Hand Tools is a welder’s best friend. It uses powerful magnets to hold two pieces of steel together at 45º or 90º angles without clamping. It provides up to 90 lb. of pulling force and is easy to remove thanks to its magnet deactivation switch.

This prequel to John Krazinski’s outstanding horror flick A Quiet Place rewinds time about a year and a half before the original, giving us our first look at how things went down when the aliens invaded Earth and survivors discovered that silence was golden. It stars Lupita Nyong’o, Djimon Hounsou, and Joseph Quinn and arrives in theaters 6.28.2024.

If you’re going to cast the devil out of a possessed soul, you might as well have the proper soundtrack to go with the process. Andre Antunes obliges by underscoring this demonic extraction with some appropriately angry, heavy metal music. Speaking in tongues never sounded so good.

This CG video from InfoGeek illustrates the history of NYC from 1524 through 2023. The story unfolds through the evolution of its man-made structures, accompanied by the year and approximate population count. It was sad to see the Twin Towers vanish in 2001, and it failed to mention the indigenous population prior to the arrival of Europeans.

The guys from How Ridiculous braved winter conditions in Montana to play with a pair of air cannons with their friends from BealsScience. This time, they loaded up their barrels with soda cans, bowling balls, spray paint, and a pair of glass spheres for an explosive grand finale.

MetaBallStudios offers a fun take on size comparison videos. By putting viewers in the body of a virtual human, we get to see how mechs might look roaming around Earth. They start with Emmet’s diminutive Constructo-o-Mech from The LEGO Movie and work their way up to the massive, city-stomping Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann.

Want some freshly-cooked rotisserie chicken? These guys have set up the ultimate chicken cooking operation, featuring a variety motorized wheels and carousels that each cook dozens of chickens over an open fire. We’re not sure why every machine is different, but they all seem to get the job done.

We always thought about time in very linear terms. However, scientists have theorized that the past, present, and future simultaneously exist. Kurzgesagt explores the theory that the entire history of the universe has already happened, and we’re just experiencing our tiny sliver of it. Warning: your brain might hurt after watching this.

The Action Lab shows off the unusual optical properties of Ulexite, a mineral that looks semi-opaque but shows objects it’s placed on top of. Also known as “television stone,” the rock transfers light through tiny tubes that act like organic fiber optics. You can find chunks of the stuff on Etsy if you want to try it yourself.

Insects are weird, so we’re not surprised by some of the strange things we learned about butterflies and moths in this video from Ze Frank. Lepidoptera are attractive prey for birds, reptiles, wasps, and other animals. To help survive against these threats, these insects have evolved defenses, including unpredictable flight patterns, toxins, and mimicry.