Awesome Leisure

Brass Against the Machine teamed up with vocalist Sophia Urista to create an amazing and energetic mashup, which combines the intensity of Rage Against the Machine’s Freedom with Beyonce’s Freedom. Download the track here.

Unistellar’s Enhanced Vision Telescope or eVscope is a newbie-friendly portable telescope. You can use its app to pick from a list of heavenly bodies, and the telescope will automatically move to the right position so you can enjoy the sights.

In 1971, following The New York Times’ lead, the Washington Post published leaked documents about the secret expansion of the Vietnam War. Guess what the White House thought of that. Steven Spielberg’s The Post stars Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Bob Odenkirk.

Musician and tap dancer Aaron DeWayne turns in a fun and lively four-mallet marimba cover of the classic Super Mario Bros. theme song with performance flair to spare. We want this version as a ringtone now.

Gradually check off some of the greatest movies and music ever made as you scratch off each one from these easy-to-hang posters. Each one features a hand-curated, eclectic list of 100 amazing films or albums you need to experience at some point in your lifetime.

Musician Davie504 strung together footage of him playing 25 different bass guitars from his collection to form a single, cohesive bass solo. We love ourselves a good slap bass funk riff – though we’re feeling the strange urge to play some ToeJam and Earl now.

Conceptualized by LEGO Ideas member Maia Weinstock, the Women of NASA set commemorates the achievements of four NASA scientists and entrepreneurs: Nancy Grace Roman, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.

The guys from Sneaky Zebra stopped by MCM London Comic-Con 2017 to check out some of the awesome costumes that fans wore to the show. There’s a little something for everyone, from Wonder Woman, to Pickle Rick, to Beric Dondarrion and his fiery sword.

A fun and dynamic new card game in which players start out with a dysfunctional psyche, and deal out medications and therapies to treat them, but side effects can cause other problems, and other players can throw a monkey wrench into the works by making others sicker.

We can say with 100% certainty that when you click “play” that you’re going to be subjected to Rick Astley’s way overplayed Never Gonna Give You Up. But Samurai Guitarist has breathed new life into the track by revamping it in the style of old spaghetti western soundtracks.

Jason Fernandez takes retro hard-sided briefcases and kits them out with a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade emulator, an LCD screen, a removable arcade joystick, light-up buttons, and a lithium ion battery pack for portability. Now you can pack your Pac-Man anywhere!

A zoetrope machine that plays 3D-printed animations by spinning them on a disc in front of an array of LED strobe lights. The machine will offer interchangeable animation plates you can print like the fish-eating-fish and jumping frogs shown here. Coming to Kickstarter.

Card Experiment teamed up with illustrator ToK to create a beautiful deck of playing cards inspired by traditional Japanese tattoo art. The precise and dramatic artwork incorporates stylistic elements of ukiyo-e, blending images of mythical creatures and nature.

Director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, CHAPPiE, Elysium) is back with another visually-stunning CGI short film from his indie Oats Studios project. This is just a 2-minute tease of what they’re calling “a huge galactic story” We really hope we get to see more of this.

Sylvanas Windrunner and the Horde square off against Anduin Wrynn and the Alliance in the cinematic trailer for World of Warcraft‘s newest expansion, Battle for Azeroth. The add-on introduces six new races, a 20-player co-op PvP mode, two new kingdoms and more.

Rick and Morty fans will immediately recognize this life-size FunKo toy as Rick’s weapon of choice – a sort of portable TARDIS which can open up holes in the multiverse, so he and Morty can go around making a mess of everything – and occasionally clean it up.

South Korean beatboxer Bigman presents his entry for the Grand Beatbox Battle Wildcard 2018, a fantastic mix of fat, tongue-twisting beats, musicality, and a sweet, smooth lead vocal mixed in for good measure.

When we feel the urge to take a break on a road trip, we pull over at a rest stop. Urban explorer and daredevil Flaviu Cernescu stretches his legs a little differently, as he takes a stroll along a skinny bridge railing where a gust of wind or a slippery shoe sole could spell instant demise.

Induku Design’s nifty laser-cut chess set has the look of chunky old-school video game pixels. The board folds up for travel, and has storage spaces inside. Each piece has a laser-engraved shading pattern on it, and nice jaggy edges. No FSAA or TXAA here.

NVIDIA GeForce Now is an upcoming video game subscription service for Mac (and later for Windows as well). The beta currently supports over 100 games including Battlegrounds and The Witcher 3. You have to own the games on Steam or Battle.net to stream them.

“The team needs you. Be their shield.” Overwatch‘s latest origin short film is about the Crusader, Reinhardt. Set during their last stand against the Omnics, the film sees Reinhardt mature a few minutes too late, and explains how Eichenwalde is what it is today.

This dope skateboard deck is part of Kidrobot’s Transformers vs. G.I. Joe collection, based on the retro overload comic book series by writer and artist Tom Scioli. Limited to 100 pieces, the deck features original art by Scioli himself.

EZ Ice’s outdoor rink kit has panels that snap together and buckled straps that use the weight of the ice to strengthen its walls. You don’t need to drive stakes into the ground, and you can buy extra parts to increase your rink’s area down the line.