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A Reasonable Request

A Reasonable Request

(PG-13 Language) A man meets up with his estranged father to ask for a huge favor. Andrew Laurich and Gabriel Miller’s painfully uncomfortable short comedy will take you on one hell of a ride. Don’t watch this with your family.

Stop-Motion Karate

Stop-Motion Karate

Corridor Digital is back at it again, this time creating a fun top-down action flick that has two suitors duking it out over the object of their affection in a fight that reminds us of the old video game Karateka. BTS footage here.

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JC & The Voidz: Human Sadness

JC & The Voidz: Human Sadness

(PG-13) The Strokes’ frontman teamed up with another set of talented and handsome bums. Seriously though, Julian Casablancas and The Voidz are legit, as evidenced by this epic noise rock single from their album Tyranny.

Super A Pigeon Murals

Super A Pigeon Murals

Street artist Super A made these large pigeon murals in Netherlands. The one on the side of a building is about 105ft. high. The birds have a threatening and inquisitive expression, as if asking you why you’re in their ‘hood.

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition

One of last year’s sleeper hits is coming to Xbox One and PS4. Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition promises a ton of improvements to one of the funniest, most interactive and open-ended RPGs you’ll ever play. And it has local co-op!

2015 Kindle Paperwhite

2015 Kindle Paperwhite
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Amazon’s backlit e-book reader now has a high-resolution 300 ppi 6″ screen. It has a new font made for e-books, and better typography and page layouts to preserve the original format even when you increase the font size.

Wheel of Impressions: Seth MacFarlane

Wheel of Impressions: Seth MacFarlane

Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and Seth MacFarlane square off in a battle to do the best vocal impressions paired up with everyday topics. It’s worth watching if only for the Bobcat Goldthwait bit.

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Pentatonix x Michael Jackson

Pentatonix x Michael Jackson

The incredibly talented a Capella vocalists of Pentatonix present a medley of hit songs spanning Michael Jackson’s expansive career, from I Want You Back to Thriller to You Are Not Alone.

Jump-starting a Car with AA Batteries

Jump-starting a Car with AA Batteries

Comic engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar tests if he can jump-start a car using only a dozen AA batteries. Yes, his car’s battery was actually dead and yes, he’s going to intentionally do something stupid so you won’t.

Odin Dog Toy

Odin Dog Toy
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Up Dog’s Odin looks like more like a sculpture than a chew toy. Stuff treats inside to keep Fido occupied, or link multiples together for more fun. Readers save 10% with discount code THEAWESOMER10 (exp. 8/30/15)

Largest Minecraft Pixel Art

Largest Minecraft Pixel Art

Believe it or not, this image is made of virtual blocks. Minecraft streamer Thorlar spent 23 and a half weeks manually laying 1,128,960 blocks to create this replica of a Blizzard wallpaper.

44 Pull-ups in 1 Minute

44 Pull-ups in 1 Minute

On 6/6/15, Yeo Kim Yeong set a new Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in a minute. Guinness counted 44 valid ones in Yeo’s attempt, topping the previous record by 2. And our lifetime record by 40.

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Funko ReAction Jaws

Funko ReAction Jaws
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Commemmorate the 40th anniversary of the first summer blockbuster with Funko’s ReAction figures, featuring Brody, Quint, Hooper and the great white shark himself. The Bloody Quint and Shark two-pack is only available at SDCC.

Golf Trick Shots POV

Golf Trick Shots POV

Donning a GoPro, golf pro Karsten Maas shows off a variety of trick shots done with his collection of silly custom golf clubs, which range from a hammer club to a crazy 14-foot-long driver. He certainly knows how to keep his eye on the ball.

FPV Drone Racing

FPV Drone Racing

Awesome footage from an indoor competition between 30 drones as they race through the air for supremacy in an old warehouse in Melbourne, Australia. Looks like a great way to spend an afternoon. BTS footage here.

Freerunning China

Freerunning China

For the last month or so, freerunner Ronnie Shalvis has been pulling his gymnastic moves on the beaches, rooftops, towers, and walls of China. For Ronnie, the entire world is his playground, so even the most mundane places he visits look fun.

Iris Car Heads-Up Display

Iris Car Heads-Up Display

Iris uses a 720p laser projector and a transparent screen, and sits just above your head so it won’t block your view of the road. It shows directions and notifications and lets you answer calls and text with gestures and voice commands.

Musical Logs

Musical Logs

A group of baby goats vie for position atop some logs. Since there are more goats than logs, it turns into a game of musical chairs – sans music – and sans chairs. There, we fixed it.

Bartesian Cocktail Mixer

Bartesian Cocktail Mixer

A Keurig for cocktails. Bartesian is an automated cocktail mixer. It has glass receptacles for four spirits – vodka, rum, gin and tequila – while the rest of the ingredients come in recyclable capsules. It also comes with a shaker.

PUMA IGNITE pwrCOOL Shoes

PUMA IGNITE pwrCOOL Shoes

Keep your dogs cool triathlon racing or backyard beer drinking with PUMA’s responsive IGNITE pwrCOOL runners; lightweight and breezy with glove-like fit; durable heel foam and thermo-regulating tech for longer, faster workouts.

Railgun Catapult Launch

Railgun Catapult Launch

The U.S. Navy shows off the power of its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) as it launches a 4-ton sled off the deck a ship like it’s nothing. They hope to use the tech to launch planes by 2017. Here’s a cart’s-eye view.

MGS V: Phantom Pain (Gameplay 3)

MGS V: Phantom Pain (Gameplay 3)

Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain’s open world evolution makes it a lot like Witcher 3 but in ’80s Afghanistan. Both have a ton of polished side missions, but instead of gathering herbs and body parts, Snake collects people and cassette tapes.

LWT: Online Harassment

LWT: Online Harassment

(PG-13 Language) Last Week Tonight and Slowpoke Spiderhands John Oliver remind us that online harassment can have real and grave effects on its victims. Worse, today’s laws and law enforcers are ill-equipped to handle the issue.

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