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Making a Dragon Ball Z Scouter

Making a Dragon Ball Z Scouter

Toy replicas of Dragon Ball Z‘s iconic Saiyan Scouter are a dime a dozen, but most of them use a headband to stay on your head. Foam lover Odin Abbott used craft materials to make a Scouter that hangs on his ear. The key is to add a piece that’s similar to earphone grips.

Valtcan Titanium Jet Bullet Pen

Valtcan Titanium Jet Bullet Pen
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A truly unique writing instrument, featuring an open-twirled design down its CNC-milled titanium body. It includes a refillable pen, a whistle, a tiny multifunction tool, and a sharp tungsten steel point for self-defense and emergency glass breaking.

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The Bet-Losing Machine

The Bet-Losing Machine

As a result of losing a bet, jackofallspades98 ended up spending more than four months getting his two table contraption to work, a mesmerizing machine filled with balls making their way through a maze filled with teeter-totters, ramps, loops, and more.

LEGO London Bus

LEGO London Bus

Another fantastic LEGO kit, this 1686-piece CREATOR set lets you build a model of one of London’s iconic double-decker buses. It’s got detailed signage, plenty of interior seating on both levels, a removable roof, a spiral staircase, and little objects left behind by passengers.

Polaroid OneStep 2 Camera

Polaroid OneStep 2 Camera

Polaroid’s first instant camera in years combines the aesthetics of its 1970s classics with modern engineering. It’s super simple to use, has high quality optics, a bright flash, self-timer, and rechargeable battery. Instant film stock is available in color or black and white.

Film Color Palettes

Film Color Palettes

The unique YouTube channel Film Color Palettes compiles scenes from visually compelling movies, and then proceeds to break down the images into collections of color swatches. It’s a neat resource for designers and artists, though it could use more videos. (Thanks Lane!)

Intey Multitool Pocket Knife

Intey Multitool Pocket Knife
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A bargain-priced pocket tool packed with 15 useful stainless steel blades, including a bottle opener, knife, saw, fish scaler, hook remover, scissors, bottle opener, nail file, phillips screwdriver, wine opener, can opener, and more. Comes with a nylon carrying pouch.

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Zippelin Inflatable Travel Bag

Zippelin Inflatable Travel Bag

Like all of Freitag’s bags, the Zippelin is made from heavy duty upcycled truck tarps. It also has a capacity of 85L. But it’s packable and lighter than many travel bags because it uses an inflatable bicycle inner tube instead of a metal or plastic frame.

Aronofsky’s Extreme Closeups

Aronofsky’s Extreme Closeups

Film editor Jacob T. Swinney compiled this intense reel of moments from Darren Aronofsky’s films in which the camera gets up close and personal with its subjects. The technique provides an immediacy and sense of involvement that’s about as visceral as it gets.

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2

Bezel-less phone pioneer Xiaomi stops pushing the boundaries in favor of an actually usable phone. Unlike its gigantic predecessor, the Mi Mix 2 has a more practical 6″ 1080 x 2160 LCD screen, a rounded frame and a good old earpiece. It lost the headphone jack though.

I Can’t Get Google

I Can’t Get Google

YouTuber Hot Dad pokes fun at some of the oblivious folks out there who for some reason think that posting on the Google Search App Facebook page is how you search the web, and decided to turn some of their absurd queries into a little song.

The Commuter (Trailer)

The Commuter (Trailer)

An office worker’s usual commute turns exciting and then sinister when a stranger offers him a large amount of money to spot a hidden passenger on the train. Crooks just won’t stop messing with Liam Neeson, and even he’s getting tired of it.

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Honda Urban EV Concept

Honda Urban EV Concept

The Honda Urban EV Concept is an incredibly charming mix of past and future. Its squat and boxy body is tempered by a LED-lit grill that has a message board. Inside is a massive digital dash and two bench seats. A production version will be released in Europe in 2019.

BioShock Big Daddy/Little Sister Figures

BioShock Big Daddy/Little Sister Figures
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“Look, Mr. Bubbles, ADAM!” Threezero brings BioShock‘s tragic villains to your shelves as sixth scale action figures. The Big Daddy is 12.5″ tall and has a detachable drill and lights in his helmet. The Little Sister is 5.6″ tall and comes with an ADAM extractor.

Drift Boards Snowshoes

Drift Boards Snowshoes

Drift Boards borrow the narrow shape of skis and adds carbon fiber to create a pair of lightweight snowshoes. The built-in climbing skins make it so you can glide instead of trudging on snow, while the aluminum bindings work with any soft boots.

Kia Proceed Wagon Concept

Kia Proceed Wagon Concept

Kia flexes its design muscle yet again with a concept study for a 5-door wagon variant of its tame European Cee’d hatch. There’s nothing mild about its looks, with a Lava Red body, elongated wheelbase, 20″ rims, dramatic illuminated roofline, and over-the-top interior.

Asics Gel Diablo Red Patch Pack

Asics Gel Diablo Red Patch Pack
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First released in 1995, Asics recently brought back the Gel Diablo with a Kith collab. The stubby sneakers will soon be available in a wider release and in two new colorways, both with a red logo heel patch and speckled soles. Drops 9/15/17.

Scorpion Hexapod

Scorpion Hexapod

A team or engineers from the UGent Campus Kortrijk and Industrial Design Center developed this creepy, yet endearing six-legged robot which looks like a giant scorpion, complete with pincers and a whip tail. They’d sell a million of these to 12-year-old boys if they retailed them.

iPhone X Announcement Parody

iPhone X Announcement Parody

(PG-13: Language) Apple just announced its latest $1000 wonderphone, and already the parodies are starting to roll in. We particularly enjoyed JacksFilms take on some of the phone’s more controversial and questionable design elements and features.

Downsizing (Trailer)

Downsizing (Trailer)

Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig star in director Alexander Payne’s (Sideways, About Schmidt) sci-fi social satire about a world in which overpopulation is solved by shrinking people down to to about 3 inches tall, where they live in an idyllic, but teensy world.

Soy Pablo: A Narcos Bad Lip Reading

Soy Pablo: A Narcos Bad Lip Reading

Netflix teamed up with the guys at Bad Lip Reading to kick off the third season of their drama Narcos, as the DEA cooks up a scheme to replace Pablo Escobar with his slightly less intimidating doppelganger. Basically, it’s the piss boy bit from History of the World Pt. 1.

Bears vs Babies

Bears vs Babies

A fun card game from Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens. The objective is simple – 2 to 5 players collect cards to create the craziest monster possible in order to defeat an annoying army of babies. Comes packaged in a spiffy faux bearskin box.

Anvil vs. Lots of Stuff

Anvil vs. Lots of Stuff

The guys from How Ridiculous have gotten in the habit of dropping anvils onto things from a 150-foot-tall tower to capture the carnage in slow-motion. For their latest “experiment” they smashed silly string, a watermelon pyramid, and cans of spray paint with spectacular results.

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