Washing Machine Rhythm Section
At one point or another, we’ve all encountered an off-balance washing machine that starts making horrible sounds. This guy seized the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade, using the incessant banging noise as the backing track for Louisiana Saturday Night.
Codename Colossus Mk. 1 Cyclops
One-man toy studio Michael Sng aka Machination Studios is ready to sell his first collectible. Like the Colossus prototype, the Mk. 1 Cyclops is a remote-controlled mobile fortress inspired by World War I technology. You can get it as a DIY kit or fully assembled.
Conan Plays Final Fantasy XV
“This is the guys left from N’Sync. This is what they do now.” Clueless Gamer Conan O’Brien and guest Elijah Wood play through the long-awaited mega JRPG. They compare it to Waiting for Godot and Ulysses, but not as compliments.
Cereal Milk Taste Challenge
A sommelier, a pastry chef, and just some guy from Bon Appétit do a blind taste test on the milk left over from a bunch of cereals to evaluate them for taste, and to see if they can identify them. Froot Loops milk is our fave.
He Who Dances on Wood
BRIC TV introduces us to Fred Nelson, an elderly man who found his true love late in life, bringing a much needed sliver of joy and happiness into the world using his feet, shoes, and an old piece of wood.
Bourdain’s Saddest Meal
World-renowned chef and traveler Anthony Bourdain is used to eating some of the world’s greatest and most exotic cuisines. But on occasion, he’s forced to eat the same crap the rest of us do on a daily basis. He described one such incident on Conan.
Monkey Light Automatic
The latest gen wheel illumination from MonkeyLectric is designed to automatically turn on and off as you pedal, displaying bright and eyecatching colors and designs as your wheels spin. A new hub-mounted rechargeable battery makes them easier to use than ever.
Paradise
Studio Smack created this weird and wonderful animated re-imagining of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden Of Earthly Delights. Watch in 4K, full-screen to see all of the detail – or head to MOTI to see the full-size installation. See if you can spot Spongebob.
2018 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2
The new performance variant of Chevy’s mid-size pickup gains 2″ of suspension lift, steel rocker protectors, Multimatic shocks, 17×8 wheels with 31-inch off-road tires, and front and rear locking diffs. Comes with either a 308 hp V6, or a 181 hp diesel with 369 lb-ft. of torque.
Safe Eyes Mesh Goggles
Rather than cover your eyes with hard plastic that fogs up like mad, these safety goggles are made with a mesh which allows airflow, while blocking most particles from getting through. Also available in a fine mesh version, which blocks more dust.
Preposterous
Motion and graphic designer Florent Porta presents a 50-second short which brilliantly demonstrate one of the classic mechanisms of comedy – the contradiction. In each brief vignette, the objects on screen do exactly none of what you expect them to.
Jackie (Trailer)
Natalie Portman stars as the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis in this critically-acclaimed biographical drama about the former US First Lady’s life before and after the assassination of her first husband, President Jack F. Kennedy. Premieres 12/2/16.
Making a Trench Club
Man at Arms: Reforged continues their Battlefield 1 promotion by creating a trench raiding club. There’s nothing elegant or artful about this deadly World War I relic – soldiers used wood and metal from the field to create a “quiet” weapon.
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Remakes and Remasters
(PG-13: Language) Videogamedunkey looks at the never-ending cycle of rehashing old video games, as game publishers cash in on nostalgia, almost always improving their graphics and sound, but rarely improving or even recapturing what made the originals special.