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Livescribe Notebook by Moleskine

Livescribe Notebook by Moleskine
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Moleskine notebooks that work with Livescribe’s smart pens, which digitize your handwriting in real-time for archiving, converting to text and more. The notebooks always lie flat and have an expandable inner pocket. Pen not included.

Bookcase Stop-Motion

Bookcase Stop-Motion

Frank Howarth loves to share videos of himself building wooden items, but this one is truly special. He chronicled how he built three bookcases using nearly 6,400 photos, making it seem like his woodshop had a life of its own.

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How to Eat Sushi

How to Eat Sushi

Chef Naomichi Yasuda, owner of Sushi Bar Yasuda, teaches the basics of eating the world famous Japanese food. You can skip to 6:02 for the summary, but then you’d miss the chance to see a master at work.

Acorns Investing App for iOS

Acorns Investing App for iOS

Acorns links your checking account and invests spare change from purchases through that account. Your portfolio is diversified and transparent, and you can deposit or withdraw at any time. Android and web versions coming soon.

Colbert vs. Scrabble

Colbert vs. Scrabble

Hasbro’s updated Scrabble dictionary has 5,000 new words, some of which are recently conceived terms such as “bromance.” Stephen Colbert is having none of it. Particularly because it didn’t include the word that he made up.

Cam-O-Bunk Portable Cots

Cam-O-Bunk Portable Cots

Cam-O-Bunk is a portable, modular and durable cot. You can adjust or assemble it without tools, thanks to its unique disc-based joints. It can be used stacked, as two single cots or as one bench. It also has a variety of accessories.

We Will Live Again

We Will Live Again

A documentary about cryonics, the practice of freezing the dead in the hope that they can be revived in the future. Cryonics facilities are legally classified as cemeteries. There is currently no way to safely reverse the process.

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LG G Watch R

LG G Watch R

LG followed Motorola’s lead and created a smartwatch with a circular face. The G Watch R has a 1.3″ 320×320 OLED display, a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM and 4GB of storage. The watch is also dust- and water-resistant. Drops Q4 2014.

RC Firefighters

RC Firefighters

YouTuber RC Live Action plays harder than a 7-year-old on Red Bull. Using remote controlled toy vehicles, he staged a fiery oil tanker accident and then had three fire trucks put out the fire.

Gone South

Gone South

It’s not too late to hop on your bike, take a trip, and let the moonlight and wind kiss your skin. Or instead, get all dusty and inspired by the landscape of Southern Utah, lavishly and slowly revealed to us in Skylar Nielsen’s Gone South.

Wizard Wars: Impossible Card Trick

Wizard Wars: Impossible Card Trick

Justin Flom from Wizard Wars and Blake Vogt are taking it to the diner and doing a magnificent and mystifying card trick in this vid; seriously, we’ve watched this multiple times and just get lost right after 1:50. How did they do that?

Animal Shot Glasses

Animal Shot Glasses
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Modern style is getting even wilder with these polygonal 3D animal shot glasses. They’re made of ceramic and are offered in five different styles and two colors. Pewter provides weight so that they can stand cup side down or on their heads.

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Scrubba Wash Bag

Scrubba Wash Bag

The Scrubba is a portable bag that lets you wash your clothes practically anywhere; all you need is water and liquid detergent. Part of the bag’s inner membrane is a rough surface that acts as a washboard.

Miegakure (Gameplay)

Miegakure (Gameplay)

Marc Ten Bosch’s Miegakure is a puzzle exploration game. Like Fez, it lets you move between different planes. But instead of looking at two of three dimensions, Miegakure lets you traverse three of four dimensions at a time.

P2

P2

We are enjoying the rich backdrops and kooky drawn characters in this animation from Werner Schnater. The crowd seems to be getting their groove on just fine, shutting it down when the police come around. But who’s in that cop car?

The Listening Tree

The Listening Tree

Near the burgeoning Fremont East District in Las Vegas sits The Listening Tree from George Zisiadis. It invites the public to discover the joy of music through tree-suspended headphones, each playing a continuous unique song.

The Mechanics of a Crash

The Mechanics of a Crash

Giro helmets educates us on the finer points of what happens to your brain in a crash, and how a seemingly small change to helmet design could protects us by moving just enough to reduce some of the most deadly and traumatic forces.

The Boy Who Cried Literally

The Boy Who Cried Literally

(NSFW: Language, Gross) Collegehumor has a parable for people who keep on using “literally” instead of “figuratively” to bolster their statements. How on earth did this become a thing anyway?

Google Project Wing

Google Project Wing

Like Amazon’s Prime Air, Project Wing is a concept for a drone delivery service. The current prototype features a small tail-sitter that automatically flies to the delivery zone and lowers its package using a winch. More here.

Scented Duct Tape

Scented Duct Tape

As if we weren’t relying on duct tape enough already, Duck Tape has released a line of scented duct tapes. It’s available in lemon, bubble gum, cupcake, grape, orange cream or mint scent.

Next Time Label It

Next Time Label It

A rookie circus technician unintentionally gives the audience a show they’ll never forget. If they make it out alive. Office equipment maker Brother makes a case for its label makers with this morbid, but hilarious commercial.

BuzzBar Ice Cream

BuzzBar Ice Cream

We’ve seen liquor-infused chocolates and marshmallows. Turns out you can also get a buzz from ice cream. BuzzBar make ice cream bars laden with whiskey, rum, cognac, Irish cream liquor or lemon vodka.

Famous People Who Were Interns

Famous People Who Were Interns

Mental Floss takes a look at some of today’s industry leaders who started from the bottom, from Steve Jobs to Sean Combs. In keeping with the episode’s theme, they let their own intern host the show.

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