Awesome Leisure

Electronic musicians and anyone who needs to combine audio signals will dig Bastl’s miniature mixer which provides five individual channels with up to 20dB gain each in a tiny box that runs on 4 AA batteries. It’s limited only to mono signals, but it’s still a nifty gadget. DUDE!

Beast Kingdom’s trademark Egg Attack figures have an oversized head and cartoony proportions, making the series perfect for Peter Quill’s larger-than-life personality. The 6″ tall figure has 30 joints, and comes with both masked and unmasked faces. Drops 11/29/2017.

The sequel to one of the most beautiful and enthralling puzzle games ever made. Monument Valley 2 introduces a new story and new characters. Help Ro teach her child about the magical ways of Monument Valley. Currently on iOS only.

Josh and Josh of FliteTest check out an incredible build from fans at Flite Fest West ’17 – a gigantic version of their Super Bee plane, packing 10 engines. It took some trial and error, but the behemoth eventually got airborne. The plane takes flight at 3:09.

The cinematic trailer for Extinction, an upcoming action game clearly inspired by Attack on Titan. Battle colossal enemies using fully destructible environments and upgradable skills. The game will also have a horde mode and a level editor. Drops sometime in 2018.

NECA’s San Diego Comic-Con exclusive costs $200, but it’s more than worth every penny. You get wonderfully painted 7″ action figures of all four turtles, Shredder, Krang and two foot soldiers, plus accessories and a carrying case. It will also go on sale at NECA’s online store.

DJ and Producer Chris Read of the awesome website WhoSampled dropped by London’s Point Blank Music School to provide an in-depth workshop on the origins of sampling in hip-hop music, modern sound layering, and how music has been derivative for hundreds of years.

Tom Cruise stars in this film based on the story of Barry Seal, an airline pilot who got wrangled into helping the CIA and DEA, and ends up running drugs and guns for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. From director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow).

Prepare to dice. Steamforged Games translated the punishing, methodical and rewarding gameplay of the Souls series into a turn-based board game while adding cooperative play. The base set comes with 27 detailed miniatures, including 3 bosses and 4 mini-bosses.

“Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise. Tie me to the rotten deck, I promise.” A disembodied android head takes in the sights of the city from the back of a bus in the music video for I Promise, a previously unreleased track from OK Computer.

The latest entry in EA’s arcade racer is clearly inspired by The Fast and The Furious. Climb up the world of street racing across five car classes – race, drift, off-road, drag, and runner – pick up abandoned vehicles and turn them into beasts using aftermarket parts.

A great fit for sneaker addicts. These chests are shaped and painted to look exactly like shoe boxes from Air Jordan, adidas, Supreme, and more. They come in two sizes: the small one holds up to 8 pairs of shoes, while the large one holds up to 16 pairs of shoes.

It looks like a small pachinko machine, but the Turing Tumble is actually an educational puzzle toy that mimics and demonstrates how computers think. It comes with a book filled with puzzles for everyone from beginners to seasoned software engineers.

A unique alternative to fidget spinners, this set of spheres have gimbal-mounted rare earth magnets inside, causing them to attract, repel, and roll in unexpected ways. Set includes two gyroscopic magnet spheres, and two proxy magnet spheres.

Artist Clemens Habicht tops his 1,000 Colors Puzzle with a “vibrantly monstrous” follow up. The 5,000 Colors Puzzle measures 6.5 x 2.5 ft when (if?) completed. Each of the 5,000 puzzle pieces corresponds to a different color in the CMYK gamut.

Maker Roberto Correia shows off a neat build – a remote-controlled model tank which was built primarily from 3D-printed parts. He later added a moving gripper arm to its top. It’s based on a design by TimmiClark over on Thingiverse if you want to make your own.

Fans of Monty Python and the Holy Grail will love this take on the classic Monopoly-style board game, featuring locations like the Castle Aaarrrggghhhh, and tokens based on the Trojan Rabbit, the Holy Hand Grenade, the Black Knight, half a coconut, and the Holy Grail itself.

Kenneth Branagh (and his incredibly distracting mustache) directs and stars alongside an all-star cast that includes Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Daisy Ridley in this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel.

Tactical daddage. Add a dose of manly humor to your baby duties with Mission Critical’s over-the-top carrier. It has MOLLE webbing at the front and the back, a packable hood and a detachable and washable liner. Available in gray, olive and black.

World War Z meets steampunk in this upcoming strategy game. In They Are Billions, you raise a colony while trying to fend off a buttload of zombies. Up to 20,000 units can be onscreen at once. Fortunately, you can pause the game at any time to issue commands.

Barebones Living has everything from a lunch box-sized cooler that carries up to six 12oz. cans hot or cold for up to 12h, to a trolley-equipped party cooler that can keep up to 96 cans chill or toasty for up to 72h. The large coolers each have a bottle opener zipper pull.

If you ever wanted to know how folks shoot those awesome POV videos of Hot Wheels cars, Adafruit Industries is here to help. In this clip, they show how to 3D print a vehicle that doubles as a case for a GoPro Session camera. Download the STL files here.

(Flashing images) “JVC is nice; I’ve been around Japan; It’s electronic, calls me Viktor; High on the scales, off the Richter.” Director Kris Merc’s dope visual feast is the perfect complement to hip hop legends Kool Keith and MF Doom’s track about a rapper with super powers.