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LEGO Lawnmower Kinetic Sculpture

LEGO Lawnmower Kinetic Sculpture

Mechanical LEGO builder Josh DaVid shows off one of his coolest creations. When you turn the crank on this little automata, a lawnmower floats above a pair of treadmills, which make it appear as if the mower is cutting the grass.

Heavy Wool Survival Moccasin

Heavy Wool Survival Moccasin
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As they say on Game of Thrones, “winter is coming.” Always be prepared for the cold with The Hill-Side’s handmade boots, based on the design of a 1950’s US Air Force survival kit mocc boot. Made from warm wool felt, with a rubber outsole, and a versatile rope lace system.

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How to Make a Hot Tub Car

How to Make a Hot Tub Car

We’ve seen hot tub boats, but a hot tub car? Only Colin Furze would be brave enough to take this on. As if the plan wasn’t crazy enough, he chose to sacrifice a BMW E30 convertible. Watch him try his best to seal and reinforce the car for its new occupant – a ton of hot water.

Massdrop Vast Gaming Monitor

Massdrop Vast Gaming Monitor
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Massdrop worked with AU Optronics to create its own curved gaming monitor, the Vast. The 35″ monitor uses a VA panel that has a 3440 x 1440p resolution, 2ms response time and 100Hz refresh rate. It also supports AMD FreeSync and is VESA compatible.

Jamiroquai Automaton Helmet Replica

Jamiroquai Automaton Helmet Replica

10KLumen shows off a super cool build – a slick replica of the headgear that Jay Kay wore in the music video for Automaton. It lights up, changes colors, and even has moving spikes. Learn how you can win one of the helmets on their Facebook page. (Thanks Victor!)

CrossHelmet Smart Motorcycle Helmet

CrossHelmet Smart Motorcycle Helmet

A motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display. Together with an app, it lets you see navigation data, the view from its rear camera and more. It also isolates sounds and has a walkie talkie function. Its front is elongated to provide more space and make it easier to breathe.

5’Nizza: Samoliot: Before VFX

5’Nizza: Samoliot: Before VFX

We were really wondering how director Max Ksjonda created the mindblowing visuals in his clip Samoliot for the group 5’Nizza. Well, now we have the answer – it was mostly done in camera, with amazing prop work and rigging which was later cleaned up in post-production.

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Airframe Picture Frames

Airframe Picture Frames
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These clever picture frames from South Korean design house TEEV turn any wall into the cabin of an airplane, looking out over the sky. You can load your own images, though it appears they do make them with a selection of cityscapes as well. Sold in a set of three.

DIY Dragon’s Beard Cotton Candy

DIY Dragon’s Beard Cotton Candy

Today’s cotton candy is made by heating and spinning sugar using a motor. Eater host Clifford Endo is here to show you how to make it the old fashioned way, using a technique similar to noodles, hand-pulling inverted sugar to make thousands of hair-thin sugar strands.

Apricoat Insulated Multi-pocket Jacket

Apricoat Insulated Multi-pocket Jacket

The Apricoat is an affordable multi-pocket jacket for adventurers and outdoor enthusiasts. It has 16 waterproof pockets, insulation that warms you when its cold and vice versa, and a built-in inflatable neck pillow. It also comes with a solar battery pack and an emergency kit.

How to Smallen a Sandwich

How to Smallen a Sandwich

The Hydraulic Press Channel finally gets around to something they should have done by now – taking a giant Dagwood sandwich and gradually smooshing it with thousands of pounds of force to see if they can make it small enough to fit in your mouth to eat.

Late AF Wall Hook

Late AF Wall Hook
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A wise man once told us “when late, walk slower” – and those have since become words we live by each day. Acknowledge your embrace of tardiness with this bent metal wall hook that’s perfect for hanging your keys, jewelry, and other small items by your entryway.

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Maru Goes to the Aquarium

Maru Goes to the Aquarium

Maru the cat continues to demonstrate his lifelong love for confined places, and successfully manages to cram himself into yet another too-small container. If you think that was impressive, watch this.

Water-powered Jet Trike

Water-powered Jet Trike

You’d think that a 3-wheeler powered by water wouldn’t go very fast, but as we recently learned, liquid can generate some crazy force when under pressure. Riding atop a 6,000 PSI water tank, François Gissy was able to go from 0 to 62 mph in 0.55s with a 162mph top speed.

Creality CR-10 3D Printer

Creality CR-10 3D Printer

Besides speed, the big limitation of most cheap 3D printers is the size of the build area. Not so with the Creality CR-10, which can output massive, high quality PLA models – up to 300 x 300 x 400mm (11.8 x 11.8 x 15.75″), on the cheap. Also available on Amazon for about $100 more.

Gold Slime in a Shredder

Gold Slime in a Shredder

It doesn’t make the kind of sticky mess that Stretch Armstrong did, but it’s still fascinating to watch this bucket of weird golden goo as it runs between every blade of PressTube’s industrial shredder. At one point, the gunk that emerges looked kind of like brains.

Breaking Bad RV Incense Burner

Breaking Bad RV Incense Burner
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Pay tribute to one of the greatest television series in history with this desktop incense burner that looks just like the RV used in the first 3 seasons of Breaking Bad. We’re not huge fans of the smell of incense, but it’s gotta be better than cooking meth.

2048: Nowhere to Run

2048: Nowhere to Run

Dave Bautista stars as Sapper, a replicant on the run in the second of a series of short films which take place between Blade Runner and Blade Runner: 2049. Again, it captures the texture of the original film well, though it drops more questions than answers. Original here.

2018 Shelby Raptor Baja

2018 Shelby Raptor Baja
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Shelby takes the latest Ford F-150 Raptor, and bumps it up to 525+ hp and 610+ lb-ft. of torque. It’s also been given upgraded two-stage FOX Racing shocks, bigger tires and wheels, a custom body kit, LED light bars, and a custom Shelby interior. Only 500 will be made for 2018.

Building a Metal Darth Vader Helmet

Building a Metal Darth Vader Helmet

GoldPointProps walks us through the process of creating an incredible replica of the Dark Lord’s infamous head gear using sheet metal, bending tools, tin snips, an arc welder, a Dremel, and a heaping helping of elbow grease.

Wine Geyser

Wine Geyser

Tim Vandergrift shared this footage from California’s Duke’s Folly Wines, showing what happens when you pop open a sealed barrel of wine while it’s filled with gas from the fermentation process. It’s one of those rare cases where a vertical video makes sense.

Jason Paul Goes Back in Time

Jason Paul Goes Back in Time

Freerunner Jason Paul meets up with fellow parkour athletes Kenichi, Zen, Yakuwa, and Yuutarou in downtown Tokyo, then lands at Edo Wonderland – a picture-perfect theme park that replicates life in the 17th century Edo era, samurais, ninjas and all. BTS footage here.

Camper Van Lunch Bag

Camper Van Lunch Bag
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Carry your lunch to work or school in style with one of these fun insulated lunch bags, decorated to look like the classic Volkswagen Type 2 camper van (aka “the microbus”.) We dig the surfboard on the handle, though we’d like some windows around the top edge.

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