Cinematic montage artist Roman Holiday compiled this brief sequence using only closeups from the only Matrix movie that really counts – the 1999 original. Set to the original soundtrack’s epic Hotel Ambush music by Don Davis.

Nope, not the guy from Beach Boys, but this Hawaiian reggae artist is an equally talented musician. This live performance of his song Permanent Holiday may not seem much at first, until you realize what he’s doing. Skip to 4:22.

We know it’s not nice to make fun of people’s accents, but the guy doing the English voiceover for this Chinese knife manufacturer is just too awesome not to showcase. Besides, we bet we’d sound as ridiculous speaking in Chinese.

Made by Daisy can turn your signature or any other handwritten text up to 30 characters into a sterling silver necklace pendant. It comes with a 16″ or 18″ chain. It can also be made into a bracelet.

This strange and hypnotic contraption is another single-purpose robot, designed to delicately pluck young plants from a cramped pallette and replant them into larger packages for sale. Watch as it transplants countless flowers without a hitch.

(PG-13: Language) YouTuber Robbaz indulges the mad engineer in him by building airplanes propelled by flamethrowers in the hilarious building game Besiege. Watch him cackle and improvise when his medieval jet engines fail.

We’re giving away an awesome Chromebook Pixel laptop over at the Technabob Shop. Sporting a 12.85″ 2560×1700 touchscreen, a 2.2GHz Core i5 CPU, and amazing battery life. Simply register for your chance to win. (Ends 5/6/15)

Bard the Bowman risks his life to try and talk some sense into Thorin Oakenshield, but the Mountain King won’t let him get a word in edgewise. M Venturelli turns a dramatic scene from The Hobbit: BoFA into a slapstick skit.

We’ve got some tiny cinder block fridge magnets in The Awesomer Shop, but you can build structures with these 1/12th scale blocks made from actual cement. Sold in sets of 10, 24 or 50 bricks – or cracked for dilapidated scenes.

This hilarious old promotional video from the European Commission demonstrates some basic chemical attractions and reactions using guests at a party as human analogs for the elements. The track is Fledermaus Can’t Get It by Von Südenfed.

Set in a futuristic and dystopic Mexico, this proof-of-concept short is about a man who figures out that the world is not what it seems. We’re not convinced that it’s as profound as it seems, but its mix of District 9 and The Matrix is intriguing.

YouTuber Tom Scott visited Ai Pioppi, a restaurant in Treviso, Italy with a unique playground. Built by the restaurant owner, many of the playground’s rides are man-powered, such as this pedal-powered 360º swing. More here.

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox presents a truly haunting interpretation of Radiohead’s 1993 classic Creep, made perfect with the sultry and soul stirring jazz vocals of Haley Reinhart. PMJ’s tour kicks off 4/30 in Boston.

Three roommates stumble upon a strange machine that prints pictures showing what their living room will look like 24 hours in advance. They abuse the machine’s powers, clearly ignoring Spider-Man’s rule.

SubOverHype’s action-packed music video for Malakai’s pop-rap track Queens & Kings mashes up the worlds of Furious 7 with Mario Kart and a dash of Mad Max for an explosive shopping cart chase through L.A.’s iconic viaducts.

A mischievous musical birthday card. Once its music is activated it will keep looping for about three hours, unless of course it’s destroyed. Fortunately it’s set in safe mode when you receive it so you won’t end up pranking yourself.

The Intel Compute Stick is a full-fledged Windows 8.1 computer in an extremely compact form. It has an HDMI connector, 64-bit Intel Atom CPU, 2GB RAM, 32GB SSD, a USB port, a microSD slot, and WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.

This incredible machine is the Plasser & Theurer RU 800 S, and what it’s doing is building a railway line by laying rock, beams, and track with minimal human intervention – a once monumental task if you’ve ever seen an episode of Hell on Wheels.

Mana Morimoto embroiders lines and other shapes over black and white photos. She seems to enjoy honoring artists’ mastery of perspective while disspelling the grandeur of these works. Get them as prints and on merch on Society6.

During a recent episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host had a special dinner guest over to his house. Though if you invite a character from Game of Thrones over for a meal, you can count on the conversation getting pretty depressing.

YouTuber John Ruddock shows two projectionists changing the xenon arc lamp of The Tech Museum‘s IMAX projector. The 15,000W bulb costs about $6,000. It’s so bright if you lit it up on the Moon we’ll be able to see it from here.

The 2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder is the most powerful of its kind, thanks to the same 3.8L flat six that powers the 911 Carrera S and Cayman GT4, albeit tuned to produce “only” 375hp. Best of all, it now has an actual roof (unlike this model.)

For its project AH A MAY, Yamaha swapped designers from its motorcycle and its musical instruments divisions, and one of the results was Raijin, a crazy drum kit which completely envelops its player inside a sphere of drums.