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Rodgers to Rodgers Hail Mary

Rodgers to Rodgers Hail Mary

With no time left in their game against the Lions, Packers’ star quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw his first successful Hail Mary pass, a 61-yard lob that was caught by tight end Richard Rodgers. The play completed their comeback from being down 20 points. NFL video here.

How to Calm a Crying Baby

How to Calm a Crying Baby

Some babies stop crying when they hear music, while others calm down because they can’t multitask. But if your baby’s wrath is particularly hard to stop, try Dr. Robert Hamilton’s disarming hold maneuver. We should try this on soccer players.

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Peace Park 2015

Peace Park 2015

Burton and Mountain Dew helped Danny Davis realize his dream snowboarding event. If you can’t watch the whole thing, at least check out the one take opening sequence of Davis and his friends carving through the custom-made park.

Inside Out: Emotional Theory

Inside Out: Emotional Theory

Inside Out is not a purely educational or technical piece, but it is founded on a psychological theory. Nerdwriter1 puts emphasis on “theory”, reminding us that we are not robots governed by our emotions – that we are less like Riley and more like Joy.

Manila Folder A380

Manila Folder A380

Last time we checked in with artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart, he was building an intricate paper model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders. Here, he applies his same incredible knife and tweezer skills to craft a replica of a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380.

DUM: Tired of Waiting

DUM: Tired of Waiting

For their latest face-swapped music video, David Unger Music created a hilarious homage to everyone’s favorite Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, and set it to their track Tired of Waiting, which is how we all feel about The Force Awakens. Bend-3PO ftw!

Epson PaperLab

Epson PaperLab

An all-in-one paper recycling machine. Instead of sending used paper to remote facilities and then buying recycled paper, PaperLab will let businesses recycle A3 or A4 sheets on their own. It makes up to 14 sheets of paper per minute. It will debut in Japan in 2016.

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Nick Offerman Drinks Whiskey

Nick Offerman Drinks Whiskey

Don’t have a drinking buddy? Scotch whisky maker Lagavulin and Nick Offerman will keep you company. Here’s a 45-minute video of the actor silently sipping whiskey by the crackling fire, with a degree of restraint diametrically opposed to his Fargo character.

Joby S2 Personal VTOL Aircraft

Joby S2 Personal VTOL Aircraft

Joby Aviation’s two-seat fixed-wing flyer has 12 propellers to help it take off and land like a helicopter, but can stow eight of them and flip the other four to turn it into a conventional airplane while cruising. It uses electric motors to fly at speeds up to 200 mph.

PMJ: Mad World

PMJ: Mad World

The incredible vocal talents of Puddles Pity Party and Haley Reinhart teamed up with Postmodern Jukebox to turn in a quirky, vaudvillian performance of Tears for Fears’ 1983 dark classic Mad World. Download on iTunes.

Converse x Woolrich Chuck Taylor

Converse x Woolrich Chuck Taylor
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Converse turned Woolrich’s classic blanket fabric and patterns into uppers for these awesome Chuck Taylor All Star high top, low top, street hiker and high rise shoes. The high and low Chucks are customizable.

Gummy Candy Assembly Line

Gummy Candy Assembly Line

We’ve already learned how to make our own gummy candies, but this neat video from Bosch Packaging Technology shows how they’re made in mass quantities. There’s something immensely satisfying about all those gummy bears and worms rolling off the assembly line.

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You Shook Me: Bluegrass Edition

You Shook Me: Bluegrass Edition

A fantastically upbeat bluegrass cover version of AC/DC’s classic You Shook Me All Night Long by Finland’s Steve`n`Seagulls. Their cover of Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills is pretty great too, and what was the last time you saw a real reindeer in a music video?

Slabs Desk Accessories

Slabs Desk Accessories
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iLoveHandles’ low-profile desk organizers are made in small batches using hand-sanded and sealed concrete. There’s one for paper clips, pens and pencils, tape, and a smartphone dock. They measure 4″ x 4″ x 1″ each.

Batman v Superman: DoJ (Trailer 2)

Batman v Superman: DoJ (Trailer 2)

Even Batman and Superman’s earthly alter egos dislike each other, but they will have to work together to defeat a terrifying threat. The main characters of Zack Snyder’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice make themselves known in this new trailer.

4 Year-Old Drives a Truck

4 Year-Old Drives a Truck

To demonstrate their durability and traction control system, Volvo Trucks put Sophie, a 4 year-old girl behind the wheel of an 18-ton truck, and asked her to drive it through a challenging obstacle course. For safety’s sake, she used a remote control. Thank goodness.

Star Wars Vehicles by Size

Star Wars Vehicles by Size

Gizmodo and artist Scott Park tried to enumerate the vehicles from the original Star Wars trilogy according to their size. They made a couple of mistakes, but it’s still a good list. Scott sells prints of this compilation and more cool works on Society6.

Matador Surface

Matador Surface
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From the maker of the Pocket Blanket comes a large rugged mat for repairs and other dirty work. The Surface is waterproof and resistant to grease, oil and gas. It has a shallow bowl for small items, rulers, a protractor, corners that double as bottle openers, and a folding guide.

The Blue Dogube

The Blue Dogube

A hilarious old video that looks like it was shot on VHS (or a potato), but embodies the essence of what makes a modern day viral YouTube clip work – a cute animal doing something stupid, yet endearing.

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley

“Gameplay is… it’s just simpler. There’s no people. Just targets.” Federico Heller’s impressive dystopian short film is about a future where virtual reality video games have become extremely addictive. One junkie stumbles onto the chilling conspiracy behind it.

Endless

Endless

A variety of single purpose machines repeatedly perform mundane human activities in Molistudio’s music video for Endless. The song is a single from Monsters, the latest album from Argentinian alternative duo Anybody There.

Crafting Anomalisa

Crafting Anomalisa

A brief look at the making of the critically acclaimed stop-motion film Anomalisa. The crew made 1,261 faces and 1,000 props for the film. The final cut has 118,089 frames of handmade animation, and ended up taking three years to make.

How Copyright Was Ruined

How Copyright Was Ruined

Adam Ruins Everything points out how Disney and other corporations asked the US Congress to pass a law greatly extending copyright protection so they could make more money out of their copyrighted works. Remember folks, everything is a remix.

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