Awesome Leisure

The Who’s 1971 classic Baba O’Riley has one of the most memorable synthesizer riffs of all time. Here, the guys from Those Darn Accordions! turn in a fun cover version of the track with the synths replaced by accordions. They need to do a version of Squeeze Box now.

Populele is a ukelele designed for total newbies. Its fretboard has 72 embedded LEDs. Together with its free companion app for iOS and Android, the LEDs will teach you chords and full songs. It also has mini-games that will teach you the basics.

Women love it when dudes drop the macho act and say what’s on their minds, so why not tell your valentine words unspoken with fur. Not only does this plush and handsome bear sensitively express your deepest feels, it’s also snuggalicious AF. Can you say win win?

Tell Rosarita to please pack her knives and leave, because daddy’s coming with some thick and manly cotton oven mitts from Blue Q. Those with the high level grill (or saucier) capabilities will appreciate them – because women aren’t the only ones who cook at home.

Corsair’s K68 gaming keyboard has a variant that is IP32 dust- and water-resistant, so you don’t have to worry about wrecking it with crumbs and spills from food and drinks. It uses Cherry MX Red switches and is available with either all red or RGB backlighting.

Cardistry expert Noel Heath shows off his skills with some sick maneuvers using a sweet minimal deck from anyone. The way he deftly manipulates the cards, it’s as if he’s got fingertips which can spontaneously switch between sticky and smooth surfaces.

Currently on Steam Early Access, Slay the Spire combines randomly generated dungeon crawling with deck building. Each character has access to vastly different card pools. Slay monsters and earn new cards and items as you try to make your way up the Spire.

A rugged soft cooler. The Trooper LT 30 has 2″ wide padded carrying straps that let you haul it as a shoulder bag or as a backpack. Its exterior is resistant to puncturing, water, chemicals and UV light. It also has a pair of mounts for accessories such as the included bottle opener.

The Avengers now have two size-shifting heroes. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas reprise their roles in Ant-Man and The Wasp. The titular heroes team up to overcome an equally high-tech adversary that can render herself intangible.

He chose the red pill. He knows kung fu. He is The One. The Matrix turns 20 in 2019, which means a ton of merchandise are incoming, starting with Hot Toys’ realistic 13″ action figure of Keanu Reeves as Neo. It comes with 4 pairs of hands, 10 guns and his signature black outfit.

A fully-motorized NERF blaster capable of firing up to 40 soft foam rounds without reloading. Its magazine-based loading systems mean you can reup with spare cartridges fast. Fires at speeds up to 100 feet per second. Choose from red or blue versions for team play.

A demonstration of four incredible LED-illuminated costumes created by high tech scenery and costume makers Stigma for EKRAN. While there’s more standing around and posing than dancing here, the costumes are the real star of the show.

Brick builder Sheo shows off a slick LEGO Technic build that uses three independent rings which allow each one to rotate on its own perpendicular axis. We’d love to see it running at a higher speed, but it’s still an amazing contraption. More build details here.

How do you make sure your tunnel construction company stays in the news? First, you come up with a memorable name. Then you put that name on a hat. Then you start selling personal flamethrowers. Damn Elon, calm down.

If you play games for the story, don’t be put off by Iconoclast‘s action-packed and twitchy gameplay. Created by one man over 7 years, the game’s main draws are its endearing characters and riveting tale of purpose and free will. Available on PC, PS4 and PS Vita.

After tearing down an insanely complicated 17x17x17 Rubik’s Cube, puzzlemaster Tony Fisher managed to acheive something far more daunting – painstakingly putting the thousands of individual pieces back together into a working puzzle.

Musician Luke T Duffy aka “Microrator” presents a dialed-down, yet powerful arrangement of A-ha’s upbeat pop hit Take on Me. It’s amazing how different the song feels when played as an elegant and emotive ballad.

HBO’s upcoming documentary explores the all-too-short life of the imposing, yet soft-hearted pro wrestler and actor born as André René Roussimoff. The gigantism and that made him famous also caused him tremendous pain, and his ultimate demise. Drops 4/10/18.

James Siewert’s intense and dizzying music video for Operator Music Band’s electro-industrial track was captured using a custom camera rig designed to endlessly rotate around its subject – in this case, choreographer Jordan Morley, as he writhed around on the carpet.

Artist and LEGO fanatic Mike Marrocco of Funk Blast Art created this amazing model, which does away with the drab shades of grey and replaces them with oranges, blues, yellows, greens, purples, and more. This needs to be an official LEGO kit.

What happens when Marilyn Manson meets Shania Twain? Musical magic when put in the hands of the almighty DJ Cummerbund, who managed yet again to take two very disparate songs, and meld them seamlessly together into the guise of Shanilyn Twanson.

Teenage Engineering’s third batch of Pocket Operators is now complete. Accompanying the PO-32 Tonic drum machine are the PO-33 K.O.!, a micro-sampler with 40s memory, and the PO-35 Speak, a voice recorder and sampler.

“The rain on my chest is a baptism – I’m born again.” Premium collectible maker Prime 1 Studio used its Batman: Arkham City license to make a bust of Frank Miller’s Batman from The Dark Knight Returns. The bust is 10.5″ tall and comes with two swappable heads.