When you’re out on a date, do you intentionally wait for several seconds before you respond to your partner so they won’t think you’re too into them? No? Then why the hell do we think that way when it comes to texting?

(NSFW: Language) In celebration of Thanksgiving, the Official Comedy channel has pieced together a brief reel to school us on the proper use of the term “jive turkey” – just in case you were planning on using it on your relatives.

A marvel of modern engineering, E-volo’s electric helicopter uses 18 rotors to lift its passenger compartment off the ground. It’s designed to lift two occupants for about 20 minutes on a charge. Significantly refined since its early prototype.

“I am the new world. And you are part of the old.” A scientist of the UK’s Ministry of Defence creates a highly intelligent android. Will it – she? – save us or doom us all? A sci-fi thriller in the vein of Blade Runner, RoboCop and Frankenstein.

When you hear the phrase “fluid dynamics simulation,” you’re probably think about how they make water look so real in CGI movies and games. But in Yusuke Endoh’s case, we get an 80×24 computer terminal, spewing out ASCII.

Bonaverde is working on a machine that turns green coffee beans into the drink we love, then set up an online shop to connect consumers to farmers. The goal is to reduce the waste and costs associated with processed coffee.

Mental Floss dishes out little known facts about the popular American holiday. Actually it’s more like a Thanksgiving episode of Mythbusters, revealing that many things associated with the holiday are entirely false or unfounded.

Breaking news: cats take care of you. And not just in Soviet Russia. Ze Frank uses his hypnotic baritone voice and hilarious wit to come up with alibis for the annoying habits of cats. And also to sell kitty litter.

An in-depth look at the people, the technology and the “highly organized chaos” behind Fox Sports’ NFL broadcasts. Amazingly, a lot of the equipment has to be assembled and then torn down every weekend. More on The Verge.

Another stunning E-type remake from the maker of the E-type Speedster. The Low Drag GT has more headroom and trunk space than its inspiration, along with modern amenities such as power steering, GPS and leather trim. More here.

Ward Miles was born 3.5 months premature. But with the help of medical staff, he fought to stay alive. He’s now a healthy boy. Ward’s dad Benjamin Scot Miller made this video for his wife’s birthday and to celebrate Ward’s first year.

One of the numerous entries for Doritos 2014 Crash the Super Bowl commercial contest, Thomas Noakes’ spot is equal parts hilarious and disturbing. We won’t give away the punchline, but you can quickly guess where it’s headed.

Mario and Fafa set out to create the absolutely worst top ten list of all time, somehow managing to fill five minutes of our time explaining their favorite numbers between 0 and 9, inclusive. Our fave? We plead the Fifth.

A hand-cranked device which takes animated GIF images and converts them into old fashioned moving pictures. Each Giphoscope is built to order, using your GIF file of choice. Pricey, but awesome. More examples here.

Upscale UK retailer Harvey Nichols launched this tongue-in-cheek holiday campaign which suggests you spend your money on awesome gifts for yourself, leaving your family with such prized items as paper clips, toothpicks or gravel.

Highlights of UFC 167 captured using a Phantom high-speed camera. Watching the fighters’ faces distort and ripple as they are pounded with punches made us flinch at the sheer brutality of these MMA matches.

wow. so animation. much soundtrack. Weebl’s Stuff takes a page out of Nyan Cat’s book, creating an infections little video featuring the Internet’s favorite shibe doge. Nope, it still makes no sense, but we love it anyway.

The latest trailer for Laika’s upcoming feature The Boxtrolls, we get an inside look at the incredible precision and artistry that goes into the production of their beautifully handmade stop-motion animated films.

Collective Cadenza gives us a concise history of the bass guitar, with none other than the group’s co-founder Michael Thurber handling the instrument’s various incarnations. A lesson as entertaining as it is educational.

While we don’t like to spend time washing dishes by hand, this restaurant dishwasher takes speed-washing to the extreme, as he scrubs 50 plates in about 10 seconds. We didn’t say they were clean, necessarily.

An unusual approach to analog time-telling, Mykonos Design’s Visus watch uses concentric circles to display hours, minutes and seconds. Just focus on the red pointer for the current time. Water-resistant with a steel adjustable band.

Comedian Gavin McInnes shows us how to take on the most vicious of opponents in the ring – babies. While some of the moves are effective, we’re pretty sure they wouldn’t work on Dragon Baby. (Thanks Thomas!)

YouTuber whatever and his friends were giving away clothes to homeless people in NYC when they came across Jaroslav, a Czech miner who tried his luck in the States but got robbed of his possessions before he could get a job.