The NBA hypes up the playoffs by releasing mockups of the 2014-2015 championship ring for each of the 16 playoff teams. The Hawks and Bulls rings are style co-champs. And how depressing is it that the Nets are in while OKC are not?

Director Kosai Sekine uses motion control and trippy VFX to mess with our heads by messing with the head of lead vocalist Yuki, as she warms our ears with her smooth vocals, backed by the ethereal electronic sounds of Animation.

Wheels? We don’t need no steenkin’ wheels! That’s the thought that must have been going through the minds of MAJER Crew as they show off some skate tricks with the wheels pulled off of their skateboards, riding only on the bearings.

“You do that. I’m going to start chewing gum.” Conan O’Brien and the astute a-hole Jordan Schlansky play a 1940s investigative puzzle at the Escape Room. Coco quickly gets frustrated and Jordan can’t back up his big talk this time.

AIAIAI follows up the TMA-1 with not one, not two, but 360 headphones. The TMA-2 has 3 headbands, 4 speakers, 5 earpads and 6 cables. Choose a pre-built pair or configure your own. Either way you’ll be able to swap its parts later.

If you think that modern tools are always better than their predecessors, witness just how much faster a lawn can be reduced to nothing at the hands of a strong man wielding a scythe versus a guy with a modern weed whacker. More here.

Oreo paid the creator of the asdfmovies to make a commercial. The result is this comedy horror drama action science fiction short film. Body of Ben… wait wait wait. Is this… is this how communion wafers are made?!

Who here among us knew that cinnamon is actually tree bark? In this short clip from our friends over at Foodie, we go inside Sumatra’s laborious process of scraping and harvesting the bark to make the tasty and versatile spice.

MakerBot’s iPad app is 3D modeling software for beginners. Its new Shape Maker feature turns sketches into 3D models. You can refine and tweak the resulting model or print it right away (provided you have a 3D printer).

YouTuber Wob38 sums up another year in the New York Knicks’ disastrous run, sarcastically set to the NCAA championship theme. You can probably make a similar video for any team in any sport, but only the Knicks have Lou Amundson.

A shoe designed for children in need. Both of the shoe’s small and large versions can be further adjusted by four sizes, allowing it to grow with the child. It’s a shame the outsole isn’t as easy to replace. Bulk discounts available.

YouTuber oskararnarson lifted a dramatic long take from Interstellar to distill how many fans reacted to the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser. It’s also exactly how we look like when we’re paying our bills.

An interactive gallery of the world’s passports. You can sort and find passports by location, by color and by ranking. The latter reflects a country’s visa restrictions, i.e. how many visa-free destinations are available to its citizens.

This dog is so damned lazy that she doesn’t care a lick that the dog door she’s decided to take a nap in keeps closing on her head, proving yet again that as much as we love our dogs, they can be as dumb as a box of rocks.

Shuri Bakaseru (The Fascinating Repairmen) shows Nobuo Okano at work. Okano has been restoring books by hand for over 30 years. The video is in Japanese, but you’ll clearly understand his meticulous process. More here.

The first look at Zack Snyder’s battle between The Dark Knight and Superman doesn’t do much to explain why they’re at each other’s throats, but it paints a sufficiently bleak picture of the world for Affleck and Cavill to face off within.

YouTuber BULL DOGG and his family were checking out the gorillas at Henry Doorly Zoo when things got real, and real fast. Was it because of the kid? Was he just bored? Is this a viral ad for Gorilla Glass? Did we just crap our pants?

(PG-13 Language) ADHD starts a war with the growing army of bronies, revealing the true facts about these colorfully coiffed flying ponies that could never really exist. Smashing dreams, one cartoon at a time.

Ahoy takes a look at what is perhaps the quintessential American firearm. John Browning’s Colt M1911 is the forefather of modern semi-automatic pistols and is still widely used today, over a century after its invention.

The 2015 Apple MacBook lost most of its ports while slimming down. The HydraDock will turn that single USB-C port into an 11-port dock. Includes 3.5mm, Gigabit Ehternet, SDXC, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, 4 USB 3.0 and 2 USB-C ports.

Mario and Fafa compile a list of wondrous gadgets and gizmos found in sci-fi that we wish we could buy today. If we had our way, we’d be stomping around in exosuits, wielding lightsabers and maintaining it all with our Sonic Screwdrivers.

Our favorite Mac music player is now on iOS. Vox plays MP3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WMA and CUE files. It also has built-in iTunes Radio and SoundCloud streaming. It’s completely free; the only in-app purchase is an optional cloud service.

Retro TV icon David Hasselhoff performs the pitch-perfect lead track for the upcoming short film Kung Fury, embracing his cheesy 1980’s past long enough that we might just look past his 21st century foibles. (Thanks Sunhwa!)