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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Cocktail Kit

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Cocktail Kit
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There’s more to Greek spirits than anise-forward ouzo. Metaxa 12 Stars is a classic Greek liqueur made of muscat wine, fine wine distillates, and Mediterranean botanicals. The sweet, amber elixir is the star of the My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 limited edition cocktail kit from Cocktail Courier, available until 9/28/23.

LEGO How We Create Inspiration Deck

LEGO How We Create Inspiration Deck
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The LEGO How We Create deck was created by builders, designers, and other LEGO team members to help inspire creative thought. It includes 78 cards featuring images of LEGO bricks, quotes, and building prompts. The deck is divided into five categories – Motivation, Inspiration, Memories & Mentors, Challenges & Obstacles, and LEGO Core Values.

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The Rolling Stones: Angry

The Rolling Stones: Angry

This October, the Rolling Stones will release Hackney Diamonds, their first original album since 2005 and without Charlie Watts on most tracks. The elder statesmen of rock and roll prove they still have it with the single Angry. The music video features a leather-clad Sydney Sweeney rolling through LA, dancing to a Stones retrospective on the billboards.

Pool Trick Shot Artist Shows Off

Pool Trick Shot Artist Shows Off

Florian “Venom” Kohler is one of the world’s best pool trick shot artists. As he’s perfected his craft, he has developed over 10,000 tricks and techniques to make billiard balls do his bidding. WIRED met with Florian to demonstrate some of his wildly inventive trick shots. His mastery of ball physics is truly something to behold.

Flat-Pack Wood Tommy Gun Model

Flat-Pack Wood Tommy Gun Model

Robotime’s ROKR division is showing off a flat-pack wood model that lets you build a replica of a Thompson M1928 submachine gun. The finished gun not only looks like the real deal, but it rapidly fires lightweight projectiles using a rubber band and spring firing mechanism. It’s even got a removable magazine.

21-String Rubber Band Guitar

21-String Rubber Band Guitar

We’ve seen guitars with lots of strings. This is the first time we’ve heard one where some strings are rubber bands. You might think they wouldn’t produce a very satisfying sound, but they play surprisingly well in the hands of a guitarist as talented as Bernth. It helps that he kept the original metal strings in the middle of his Ibanez acoustic guitar.

Nirvana But It’s Green Day

Nirvana But It’s Green Day

Imagine for a moment that Nirvana and Green Day did some kind of Freaky Friday thing and swapped bodies. Musician Steve Welsh imagines what it might have been like if Billie Joe and his bandmates performed Lithium in their trademark pop-punk style. It took a minute for us to remember this wasn’t an actual Green Day song.

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Only the Hardest Puzzles

Only the Hardest Puzzles
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Ready to challenge your brain? Created by Google Software Engineering Manager and puzzle fanatic Willa Chen, this book is filled with 135 of the toughest puzzles money can buy. There’s a good variety, too, from cryptograms to word searches to Sudoku, crosswords, and more.

32 Acrobats, 1 Crane

32 Acrobats, 1 Crane

For the opening ceremonies of the 20th Letní Letná festival in Prague, 32 acrobats performed while hanging from a spinning truss suspended by a crane. Artists duo.extend were part of this display from Cirkus Cirkor’s Aquanauts, an amazing show that brings together acrobats, aerialists, and synchronized swimmers in a show combining water, air, and fire.

The Wake-Up and Shower Machine

The Wake-Up and Shower Machine

The latest Rube Goldberg contraption from Joseph’s Machines helps its inventor get up and going for the day. After waking him with an alarm clock to the face, it pours a cup of coffee down his throat, turns on the lights, and subjects him to what is basically a car wash for humans. It even puts Joe’s clothes on for him. Pee-Wee Herman would have been so proud.

HydroChrome Sutton’s Panoramic Belair Camera

HydroChrome Sutton’s Panoramic Belair Camera
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Lomography’s lo-fi analog camera captures 35mm panoramas with a creamy, dreamy aesthetic. Its unique lens can be injected with water-based liquids to create a variety of in-camera effects. It includes four interchangeable aperture plates and exposes panoramic images all the way onto the film’s sprockets.

Overpowering an Electric Skateboard

Overpowering an Electric Skateboard

The team at Hacksmith Industries specializes in over-the-top builds. In this video, mechanical engineer Jeff got his hands on an off-road capable electric skateboard and upgraded its motors, battery pack, and circuitry to produce way more power than most people would feel comfortable with beneath their feet.

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All-Track LEGO Crawler

All-Track LEGO Crawler

GazR’s Extreme Brick Machines created this unusual LEGO Technic vehicle that gets around on eight tank-like continuous tracks. It’s driven by eight large Powered Up motors and has articulated outer tracks that help it to climb stairs and maneuver on uneven, rocky terrain.

Paramotoring Over Slovenia

Paramotoring Over Slovenia

We had to look on a map to see precisely where Slovenia is, but after watching this video, it looks like a place we’d love to travel. Click play, sit back, and enjoy a peaceful flight on a motorized paraglider as its pilot takes sunset trips over a grassy field, a winding river, foggy forests, and an idyllic lake. And if that didn’t convince you to visit, watch this.

Bookie Cushion Bookmark

Bookie Cushion Bookmark
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Yeah, we know that whoopie cushions are one of the most juvenile forms of humor in existence, but they still can make the most stoic of us giggle. Novelty gift company Fred came up with the brilliant idea of combining a bookmark with a whoopie cushion, so every time you close your book, it emits a delightful raspberry.

More Than a Feeling: Bluegrass Edition

More Than a Feeling: Bluegrass Edition

Finnish band Steve’n’Seagulls offers up another great bluegrass cover of a rock classic. They performed their arrangement of Boston’s 1976 hit More Than a Feeling while enjoying a delightfully warm summer day along their country’s idyllic Lake Armisvesi.

Aperol Spritz Perfect Serve Kit

Aperol Spritz Perfect Serve Kit
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Cocktail Courier’s latest kit celebrate’s Aperol’s partnership with the U.S. Open. The Perfect Serve Kit has everything needed to mix and serve up to 16 perfect Aperol Spritz cocktails: a 750 ml bottle of Aperol, Cinzano Prosecco, Q Mixers club soda, and oranges plus a colorful Aperol Visor for match day.

Ferrari (Teaser Trailer)

Ferrari (Teaser Trailer)

Michael Mann of Heat and Miami Vice fame directed this biopic about automotive icon Enzo Ferrari. A grey-haired Adam Driver stars as Ferrari during a tumultuous period in his life. As his factory is on the verge of bankruptcy, his marriage to Laura (Penélope Cruz) falters, he struggles to accept his son, and he pushes his drivers to win the Mille Miglia.

Backyard Fence Model Railroad

Backyard Fence Model Railroad

Woodworker Matt Thompson has a pretty awesome backyard setup that includes his own private bar. He also built a model railroad along his wooden fence. The O-gauge train rolls along the L-shaped privacy fence and loops back and forth at each end, providing some extra entertainment for his visitors. As others have suggested, he should extend it into the bar.

Venns with Benefits

Venns with Benefits
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This party game from Very Special Games asks players to come up with creative and witty text to fill in the center of a Venn diagram. Each player gets a board and draws two word cards. Everyone else competes to fill in the funniest intersecting answers to win points. Best for ages 15+ and 3 to 6 players.

Cooking LEGO Fried Chicken + Fries

Cooking LEGO Fried Chicken + Fries

Hypno Motion makes stop-motion animation. In this short clip, they took some brick-built LEGO chicken legs, battered them up in 1×1 bricks,  and fried them in a pot. Of course, you can’t have fried chicken without a side dish, so they also cooked up some french fries. Their Hidden Patterns Inside video series is a fascinating watch, too.

Road Trip Pack This! Notepad

Road Trip Pack This! Notepad
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Knock Knock makes all kinds of fun and useful checklist notepads. The Road Trip edition of their Pack This! list covers everything you should have in the car before you hit the road, from hand sanitizer to a first aid kit to games for the kids. And yes, you should always have spare oil, coolant, and jumper cables.

Lynx Bullet 6-Sided Dice

Lynx Bullet 6-Sided Dice
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Lynx makes all kinds of cool accessories for tabletop gaming. Among our favorites are these D6 dice that look like bullets. They’re cast from 100% brass with a baked-in copper tip. They’re designed to roll evenly on their six sides, but we think you should earn bonus points for landing one on its flat rear end. Sold in a six-pack with a metal storage box.

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