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Electric Shock Piano

Electric Shock Piano

There are lots of ways to learn to play the piano. Joel Creates and his friend Eric came up with the cruelest method. Their electric piano keyboard uses negative reinforcement, zapping students with high-voltage electricity if they mess up. It has electrodes on every key, so it shocks the same finger that played the wrong note.

The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names

The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names
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From Andre the Giant to The Texas Tornado, Pop Chart’s print celebrates the many fanciful and flashy names assumed by wrestlers. It includes more than 500 names, organized and connected by the traits they each share. It measures 18″ x 24″ and comes unframed, framed, or mounted on a birch plywood panel.

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Emoji Kitchen Emoji Combiner

Emoji Kitchen Emoji Combiner

Emoji Supply’s Emoji Kitchen lets you cook up new emojis by combining two existing emoji into one. Want a monkey eating a hot dog? Sure! An angry guy with a monocle? No problem! Not every permutation is available, but there are lots to choose from. The combinations are also available in the Android keyboard Gboard.

Trash Panda Lamp

Trash Panda Lamp
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This shiny raccoon table lamp brings a little bit of nature indoors – without the risk of rabies! The curious little critter is seen holding onto a light socket, illuminating his brass-painted resin body and beady little eyes. The lamp measures 13″ tall and is also available in a creamy matte white finish.

Catsquatch Jigsaw Puzzle

Catsquatch Jigsaw Puzzle
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We’ve finally found Bigfoot, and it turns out the elusive beast is not what we thought it was. Actually, Sasquatch is just a bunch of cats smooshed together. This delightfully weird 1000-piece Catsquatch puzzle was illustrated by artist Shyama Golden, as part of Fred’s Artist Series.

Dabadeeteque

Dabadeeteque

Ice age coming. Ice age coming. Blue are the people here. Remixer Willam Maranci is a master at combining songs that don’t seem to belong together. One of our recent favorites is this combo of Radiohead’s climate change chant Idioteque and Eiffel 65’s Eurodance hit Blue. It’s as unlikely a successful pairing as ham and pineapple.

Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Shirt

Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Shirt
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Spider-Meme, Spider-Meme, does whatever a Spider-Meme does. This short-sleeve shirt from RSVLTS celebrates the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme with dozens of Marvel’s web-slingers pointing at each other across its print. The slim-fit KUNUFLEX shirt is designed for comfort with stretchy and breathable fabric that won’t shrink in the wash.

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Synthetic Summer: An AI-Generated Beer Commercial

Synthetic Summer: An AI-Generated Beer Commercial

We’ve seen what artificial intelligence can do when asked to make a pizza commercial; now AI has been turned loose on a beer spot. Private Island used Stable Diffusion, Runway, and Modelscope to generate their version of those summertime commercials with bros ogling women while they sip their bland light beer.

The Spinning Katana Machine

The Spinning Katana Machine

A while back, How Ridiculous built a helicopter with baseball bat rotor blades. After putting that machine through its paces, they fitted it with metal fly swatters. Now they’ve retrofitted their high-speed spinner with katanas. After a scary incident with a loose blade, they tightened things up and played some Fruit Ninja.

Tenacious D: Video Games

Tenacious D: Video Games

(PG-13) Jack Black never plays video games anymore… except for all of them. That’s what we gleaned from this Tenacious D track and its animated music video by Oneyplays’  Chris “Oney” O’Neill and Adam Paloian. By the end, you’ll be rooting for Kyle Gass to exact his revenge. And here we thought they were friends til the end.

“Is It Cake?” Goes Off the Rails

“Is It Cake?” Goes Off the Rails

(PG-13: Language) We’ve seen some mighty impressive cakes that look like other things. In this hilarious sketch from Australia’s always-warped Aunty Donna, we learn what happens when the gang takes their cake fakery too far. Memo to self: if visiting their Coffee Café, always bring an Epi-Pen.

Driving a Go-Kart with Concrete Tires

Driving a Go-Kart with Concrete Tires

The cars in The Flintstones rolled on wheels carved from boulders. Chris Rollins took a different approach to making stone tires for his go-kart by casting them from concrete. How fast and far can he drive on these punishing solid tires before something breaks? Watch part two here.

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An Engaging Star Trek Video

An Engaging Star Trek Video

Every starship commander needs to clearly issue directives to their crew. While every Captain has their own special catchphrase, “Engage” is a Star Trek favorite across the decades. Editor John DiMarco put together this compilation of officers commanding their crews to kick it into high gear from TOS to Enterprise.

Building Stupid Childhood Inventions

Building Stupid Childhood Inventions

We’re most creative as children because our imaginations have yet to be restricted by things like cost, practicality, and safety. Allen Pan asked his audience to relay some of their craziest childhood inventions and made his best effort to make them real. He started with shoes for climbing on ceilings; then, things get really dangerous.

Testing the Smallest Pickup Truck

Testing the Smallest Pickup Truck

Americans like their trucks big, but in most countries, pickup trucks aren’t as common or as large. Just for fun, WhistlinDiesel ordered the smallest truck he could find and tested its hauling, off-road capability, and durability. The truck costs around $2500 in China, but shipping and importing brings the cost to over $11,000.

System of a Tunak Tunak Tun

System of a Tunak Tunak Tun

System of a Down is known for its ferocious guitar shredding and staccato vocals. Musician Andre Antunes replicated their guitar sounds and melded them with the similarly rapid-fire vocals of Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi and his energetic 1998 Indi-pop track Tunak Tunak Tun. We’ve struck internet gold, baby.

Duolingo in the 1980s

Duolingo in the 1980s

The app Duolingo is an easy way to learn new languages. It didn’t come out until 2011, but Squirrel Monkey lives in the past and imagines what it might have been like if it ran on 1980s IBM PC hardware and shipped on floppy disks. And yes, that Covox Speech Thing really was a thing.

Wanted: Animator vs. Animation VI – Ep 1

Wanted: Animator vs. Animation VI – Ep 1

Alan Becker continues his long-running Animator vs. Animation series with this action-packed short. It follows a super-powerful character on a thrilling journey to outsmart their adversaries and escape their digital confines. It’s like The Matrix and an Avengers movie but with stick figures.

Pizza Beach Blanket

Pizza Beach Blanket
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Going to the beach and eating pepperoni pizza are two of our favorite things, so this microfiber beach blanket makes perfect sense to us. While you can’t actually eat this 5-foot diameter pepperoni pie, you can always use your phone to have a pizza delivered while you sunbathe on it.

Army Man Wine Bottle Holder

Army Man Wine Bottle Holder
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Ready! Aim! Fire! Unless you’re launching a champagne cork, these are not typically words associated with drinking wine. But that’s not the case with this whimsical wine bottle holder, which looks like an oversize green army man. Set your bottle into the brackets, and it instantly becomes a bazooka. Made from cast polyresin.

Pepperoni Hug Spot: An AI-Generated Commercial

Pepperoni Hug Spot: An AI-Generated Commercial

With tools like GPT-4 and Midjourney, there’s a lot of talk about artificial intelligence taking over creative jobs. But after watching Pizza Later’s AI-generated commercial for an imaginary pizza restaurant, we’re not ready to give up our livelihood just yet.

All Blue Star

All Blue Star

When There I Ruined It isn’t laying waste to popular songs, he’s experimenting with them like Victor Frankenstein in his laboratory. He created this lovable monster by grafting the DNA of Smashmouth’s All Star onto Eiffel 65’s Blue (Da Ba Dee). Get ready for a bad case of earworms.

The World’s Fastest Garbage Can

The World’s Fastest Garbage Can

Zooming down a drag strip inside of a plastic trash can seems like a terrible idea. Regardless, that’s what speed freak Chris Rollins did. In his quest to set a new world record, he built a motorized tricycle that fits inside the can and outfitted it with a 12 hp Honda clone engine. We can only imagine how terrifying it is to drive.

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