You could sit through 8+ hours of Peter Jackson Hobbit movies, or you could watch Brotherhood Workshop’s LEGO-fied speedrun, which sums up the entire trilogy in about 1/400th the time.

If you’ve ever wondered where those canisters at the bank go when you put them inside the pneumatic tube, you’re about to get a first-person view. Some folks put a GoPro inside a one and recorded its trip through the tube. Skip to 1:00.

An animated short film that will be shown in theaters alongside Big Hero 6. It’s about a dog that has such poor eating habits that he eventually turns into Baymax. Then he goes vegan. At least that’s what we think it’s about.

The College Republican National Committee recently came under fire for creating a series of sexist and totally uninformative campaign ads aimed at women. Ever the GOP’s bro, Stephen Colbert helped the party by pitching his own ad.

In this kinetic art by artist Fabian Oefner, a Ferrari California T was placed in a wind tunnel. Then various colors of ultraviolet paint were splattered onto the car, with the spectacle shot under UV light.

Ambition is a mysterious sci-fi film starring Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones) and directed by Platige Image’s Tomek Bagiński, the man behind the awesome teaser for Cyberpunk 2077. It will premiere at the 2014 BFI sci-fi event.

Terrence Malick often uses voice-overs in his movies, but it’s no mere idiosyncrasy. Scott Tobias and Kevin B. Lee show how Malick employs the technique to free his camera, emphasize his themes or help the audience catch up.

WeWi’s SOL is a 13.3″ netbook that comes with a detachable solar panel array, which can fully charge the laptop in at least two hours. The laptop also has an AC charging adapter. It comes with Ubuntu but can be installed with Windows.

Mixed media artist Thomas Medicus created this extraordinary sculpture from 160 individual hand-painted glass strips. As you move around the anamorphic object, it transforms into four completely different images. More on Colossal.

A brake and turn signal light that sticks on the back of motorcycle helmets. It will come with a wireless transmitter that you’ll attach to your bike, allowing it to turn on or off in sync with the bike’s own lights.

(NSFW: Language) Last Week Tonight looks at the unnecessarily long immigration process of Iraqi and Afghan translators who worked with US military forces, despite them having risked their and their family’s lives for Americans.

Performer Roy Kafri’s quirky beatbox track Mayokero is handily upstaged by director Vania Heymann’s clever music video, in which classic vinyl album covers come to life and sing his track.

A sweet, spicy and smooth concoction made from Kentucky bourbon whiskey, pure honey and spicy ghost pepper. With a flavor reminiscent of a red hot candy, it makes for a great shot, or to compliment apple pie à la mode.

This amusing commercial for Finland’s ZYX cough drops uses the gravelly and guttural voice of a death metal vocalist to prove its point. This is so much better than those old Ricola ads.

YouTuber bosnianbill shares this unusual lock and key system that involves a flexible key. The lock has a curved keyway, which the key shaft’s linked parts will slither into when it’s injected into the keyway. More here and here.

To celebrate their launch into Target stores, we’ve teamed up with BlueLounge to give away $165+ worth of items for tidying your workspace, including a CableBox Mini, CableDrop clips, Rolio dock, Kii Lightning charger, Cool Feet, and more.

(NSFW: Language) “OUT OF NOWHERE! THE RKO!” Similar to Street Troller, YouTuber steveozzi’s RKO clips sees WWE wrestler Randy Orton creeping up on various fail videos and causing accidents with his finishing move.

Sometimes you don’t have the time to wait for your toast to cook in the morning. The guys at PhotonicInduction incrementally increased the power to their toaster, circumventing the wait time. Not coming to an appliance store near you.

Fins, fins everywhere. In this video taken by Donnie Griggs at the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, a school of over 100 sharks can be seen feeding on blue fish right by the shore, along with a brave colony of seagulls.

Sir Ian McKellen visited the Chew Valley School in Somerset, England as part of its involvement with Stonewall, a charity he co-founded. While there he had a brief message for the kids ogling him. “Study, you fools!”

Isaora’s winter pullover has a light polyester torso filled with 90/10 down. Its knit sleeves also provide warmth without restricting your movement. Shoulder and side seam zippers make it easy to take off the sweater.

The latest game from Bossa Studios, the makers of the frustratingly hard Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread is – as far as we know – the world’s first bread simulator. The plot is simple – you control a slice of bread on a quest to become toasted.

Key & Peele educate a couple on the subtle variations of cuisine served at two neighboring, but warring restaurants. All we know after watching this is that we’re hungry for some meat kebabs now. Full episode here.