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Making a Flying Bicycle

Making a Flying Bicycle

This crazy flying bicycle was created by Chinese maker Aircraft Model Art. He started by purchasing the lightest bicycle he could find, then made a custom foam wing and attached a pair of powerful motors. It took several redesigns to come up with a version that could stay airborne. We suggest turning on English captions.

Stayin’ Alive Survival Bandana

Stayin’ Alive Survival Bandana
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You might not think a bandana could save your life, but this one could. Colter Co.’s clever Stayin’ Alive survival bandana is printed with tips to help you build shelter, find water, make fire, and hunt and gather food. Its bright orange background and reflective ink help mark your location too. They also make a knot tying and animal track identification bandanas.

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Disney Imagineer Shows Off Holotile Floor

Disney Imagineer Shows Off Holotile Floor

Research Fellow and Imagineer Lanny Smoot is only the second Disney cast member to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The first was Walt Disney. In this video, Lanny shows off a few of his incredible creations, including an amazing interactive “Holotile” floor that moves beneath your feet.

Sun Company ComboDriver

Sun Company ComboDriver
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This bargain-priced multitool from Sun Company is great for quick fixes to bicycles and other everyday repairs. Despite its size, it packs in eight hex wrenches, two spoke wrenches, a butterfly wrench, a 1/4″ hex driver, a pry bar, a ruler, and a bottle opener. Its body holds Philips and flathead screwdriver bits and has an integrated carabiner clip.

Thrifty Old Time Ice Cream Scoop

Thrifty Old Time Ice Cream Scoop
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This old-fashioned stainless steel ice cream scoop carves out perfect cylinders instead of spheres, resulting in larger, taller scoops, and a unique presentation for frozen desserts. Just press into ice cream, and pull the trigger above your cone or bowl.

Desk Dumpster

Desk Dumpster
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Is your day feeling like a dumpster fire? Embrace the chaos with this desktop organizer from Fred. It’s made from MDF wood done up in an authentic dumpster color scheme. It offers a place to store pens, pencils and includes 100+ flame-shaped notecards. Just don’t actually light it on fire.

Making Crabman

Making Crabman

Vegans will want to skip this video. After feasting on a shellfish dinner, Minimaus Crafts took the leftover shells, cut them up, and reassembled them into the crab’s ultimate form – a horrifyingly awesome armored character known as Crabman. We felt so wrong watching this, but also couldn’t look away.

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Cleana Sticker Scraper Tool

Cleana Sticker Scraper Tool

Peeling stickers off of surfaces can be a pain. Dreamfarm’s Cleana is a plastic scraping tool that won’t scratch your stuff and gets underneath stubborn stickers without using your fingernails. It has a flat front blade and a flip-out hook scraper for cleaning crevices. A built-in sharpener in the handle refreshes its main blade 1000+ times. Sold in a 2-pack.

Exploding a Laserdisc in Slow Motion

Exploding a Laserdisc in Slow Motion

If you spin a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc fast enough, it will eventually shatter and send shrapnel flying. Laserdiscs were made similarly, only bigger, so they also catastrophically fail at high speeds. The Slow Mo Guys pointed their high-speed camera at the carnage to give us a detailed look at how the discs come apart.

Linus and Lucy on Banjos

Linus and Lucy on Banjos

The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Linus and Lucy from A Charlie Brown Christmas brings happy memories flooding in. While the jazzy original was performed on piano, bass, and drums, Foggy Mountain Spaceship gave it a twangy new sound by playing the track on banjos. For more banjo goodness, check out their cover of Walking on the Moon by The Police.

Better Together Daily Bag

Better Together Daily Bag
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The Better Together Daily Bag is a great size for carrying small electronics, accessories, passports, notepads, and other everyday items. It’s made from water-resistant nylon and has a front compartment with card and gear slots, a larger main compartment, and a side pocket. It has a built-in carrying handle and comes with a removable shoulder strap.

How to Stop a LEGO Train

How to Stop a LEGO Train

Gnuk Animations has an obsession with LEGO trains, and likes to see what it will take to stop one from rolling down the tracks. On their TikTok channel, you’ll find videos of a LEGO train taking on spaghetti, Q-tips, Pokémon cards, paper straws, tin foil, and more.

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Airplane Limousine

Airplane Limousine

Airplanes are usually meant to fly. This one never leaves the ground again because it’s been converted into a limousine. Martín Vaca and VA-K Innovation took the decommissioned Boeing 727 and mounted it atop a bus chassis. The wings had to be removed, and the fuselage reduced in size to make it street-legal. Here’s what it looks like inside.

Kizen Collapsible Lantern

Kizen Collapsible Lantern
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Kizen’s compact LED lantern is perfect for campsites, or anywhere you need a little extra light. It collapses down to about the size of a hockey puck and can juice up via USB or a built-in solar panel, and its rechargeable battery can be used as a phone charger in an emergency. It comes in blue or yellow.

Rhyme or Die

Rhyme or Die

(Gore) It’s not easy to come up with unique ideas for a horror film, but the short Rhyme or Die has done just that. The premise – a madwoman kidnaps five strangers and forces them to rhyme to her beats or face the ultimate punishment. Director Max R Lincoln and writer Alex Moran cooked up one of the most brutal reality competition shows yet.

VinFast DrgnFly E-Bike

VinFast DrgnFly E-Bike

VinFast Auto didn’t just stand out at CES 2024 for its unexpected reveal of its futuristic VF Wild electric pickup truck concept. The young Vietnamese company also launched its DrgnFly electric bike just one year after its initial showcase.

Sorting Out the Scale of the Universe

Sorting Out the Scale of the Universe

The universe is made up of countless galaxies, planets, stars, and moons. But do you know how those all relate to each other in terms of size? In this man-on-the-street video from Veritasium, he asked people to sort them in order of size. Not everyone got it right, but instead of making fun of their misunderstandings, Derek helps educate his audience.

Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin

Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin
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Following in the footsteps of their Indigo Gin, Empress 1908’s Elderflower Rose Gin pays homage to the distillery’s home city of Victoria, BC, AKA the City of Gardens. Inspired by Victoria’s flowers, Empress Elderflower Rose Gin has a bright floral bouquet of nine botanicals, including red rose petals, elderflowers, lavender, and black carrot.

Retro Tech: Tomy Omnibot 2000

Retro Tech: Tomy Omnibot 2000

Science fiction has always promised us robots to do our bidding around the house. And we want more than just robot vacuum cleaners. In the 1980s, toymaker Tomy tried making a home robot with the Omnibot 2000. LGR looks at this retro automaton, which can speak, play music, and serve drinks.

Gears Round Jigsaw Puzzle

Gears Round Jigsaw Puzzle
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Do you like challenging jigsaw puzzles? This detailed monochrome image of gears should keep you busy for a while. The 1000-piece puzzle has precision-cut curved pieces that radiate out from its center. Unlike other circular puzzles we’ve seen, this one has no color coding or lettering on the back to ensure it remains difficult.

Breaking Bad, But No One Is Careful

Breaking Bad, But No One Is Careful

Part of why Walter White’s rise to power was so successful was that he was meticulous about covering his tracks. Alternative Cuts imagines what Breaking Bad might have been like if its characters were more cavalier in their attitudes and threw caution to the wind. Man, that Walt Jr. was one cool customer.

Exposed Circuit Nixie Tube Clock

Exposed Circuit Nixie Tube Clock
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This unique desk clock combines vintage tech with natural looks. At its center is an exposed circuit board with vintage IV-9 Nixie tubes. A hardwood frame complements the warm orange glow of its tubes. Its circuitry includes a DS3231 clock chip and an ESP8266 wi-fi module to maintain accurate time via the internet. It measures 4.92″ x 4.92″ x 2.12″.

Portable Ladder Bridge

Portable Ladder Bridge

Say you need to cross a river where there is no bridge. The EasiBridge can span up to 18 meters (59 feet) and be deployed by a single person. Once it’s opened and its supports flipped over, it can carry people on a rolling belly slide. Since the prototype shown in this video, the company continued development and testing and was acquired by BANAIR.

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