Even with the latch engaged, hotel doors aren’t as secure as you might think, and you never know what you’ll get at an AirBNB. Stinger’s pocket-sized Starship travel lock provides added security by wedging between a door lock and its strike plate. It’s easy to install and has a built-in glass breaker and seatbelt cutter tools for emergencies.

Cam from Blacktail Studio built a coffee table out of denim. Now he’s back with an even more impressive fabric table with patterns typically found in damascus steel. He started by cutting abstract wooden forms that he added to his mold. Then he layered denim, poured epoxy, vacuum-infused it, and ran it through an industrial planer to reveal the patterns.

A traditional Japanese Higonokami knife has a permanently riveted hinge. These larger Higonokami knives have a removable screw hinge, which makes them easier to maintain and provides a secure locking mechanism. Each knife is made by alphakogyo with a handcrafted VG10 steel blade. They also sell smaller knives with a classic hinge design.

Inline skating expert Ilia Savosin previously showed us how he gets around on office chair wheels. Now, he’s back and rolling on some other office equipment. In this brief but entertaining video, Ilia grinds some rails with computer keyboards, an LCD screen, and a laptop beneath his feet. Here’s a closer look at his keyboard skates.

This pocket flashlight featured a durable aluminum shell, anodized in bright orange. It offers 275-, 200-, and 15-lumen modes, as well as an emergency strobe. It’s also fine in the rain or on a boat, thanks to an IP67 waterproof rating, and it has a dual-direction pocket clip that lets you clip it to the brim of a hat.

Typical night vision scopes display monochrome images in shades of green. Yashica has developed a scope that can display and record full-color video in the darkness of night. It also has a 3-level infrared illuminator to produce high-contrast black-and-white footage with a viewing distance of up to 1970 feet and a sensitivity of 0.0037 lux.

KARVD’s compact desks save floor space by attaching to your wall and folding up when not in use. Each is made from baltic birch wood and provides storage cubbies, a circular corkboard, and a fold-out laptop desk surface. The desks also have a built-in smartphone stand and pass-throughs for cords. They come in several eye-catching designs.

For many years, prosthetics have been primitive, static objects. Thanks to modern biotechnology, people facing lost limbs can look forward to devices like this brain-controlled robotic arm from Esper Bionics. It has independently-moving fingers, a swiveling wrist, and the ability to perform fine-grained actions like picking up a knife and cutting with it.

Here’s a great Valentine’s Day gift for men. Meathearts are tasty morsels of beef jerky cut in the shape of hearts. Like those classic Conversation Hearts candies, each is embellished with a romantic phrase like “Kiss Me,” “Meat Me,” and “Beef Mine.” Choose from Original or Spicy – with just slightly more racy words. Each gift box comes with about 16 pieces.

Over a decade ago, Destin from Smarter Every Day and his pal John Henry tested the idea that you could light a match with a bullet. Now that he’s got a much better high-speed camera, he and John wanted to revisit the experiment. Once they dialed in the aim, they captured some incredible slow-motion macro footage at speeds up to 380,117 FPS.

Don’t have anything to plug into your car’s 12-volt accessory outlet? These covers turn unused outlets and cigarette lighters into buttons you might find in James Bond’s Aston Martin. The set of two machined aluminum plugs includes “FIRE MISSILE” and “EJECT” buttons you can use to amuse your passengers. Available in red or black anodized finishes.

We’ve featured the hypnotic fluid creations of artist Roman De Giuli before. In this video, he demonstrates the Emitter – a custom-engineered machine that uses stepper motors to pump and drip colorful pigments into water. The resulting designs are still organic but exhibit a rhythm and repetition not seen in De Giuli’s earlier works. Shot in 8K HDR at 60 fps.

This soft-sided cooler bag from Bellroy is the perfect size for a 6-pack and an ice pack. It’s made using 3M Thinsulate insulation to keep contents cold and has a waterproof lining to keep moisture from escaping. Its handle can be looped around a backpack strap for easy carrying, and it has a bottle opener built into its latch. Makes a great lunchbox, too.

The guys from How Ridiculous are always looking for new ways to entertain us with stupid stunts. This time, their antics aren’t quite as destructive as sticking stuff into a giant blender. Instead, they headed to a ski jump at the Utah Olympic Park and turned it into an impromptu soccer field with a goal at the bottom. How many balls can one goalie keep out?

You never want to take a hot pan out of the oven with bare hands (bear hands are acceptable, though.) These playful oven mitts from Firebox look just like two delicious baguettes: golden-brown and crusty on the outside and white and fluffy on the inside. But no matter how good they look, don’t bite in.

There’s a whole YouTube sub-genre of carpet-cleaning videos. This one from Change Cleaning Services is quite satisfying. Like most of these videos, it starts with a rug so caked with mud that we assume they did it themselves. After saturating it with water and cleaning foam, then scrubbing it endlessly, two cartoon characters are revealed. Best watched at 2x speed.

Accessory maker WESN teamed up with fashion brand P&Co. to create a small but useful knife that’s legal in the UK. Their Slipjoint Microblade knife features a stubby D2 steel blade and a brass handle engraved with a sunburst design. It measures 2.3 in / 5.9 cm closed and 3.8 in / 9.75 cm open and has a spring-loaded mechanism for easy closing and safety.

Thanks to Leo Moracchioli, we now have three favorite versions of New Order’s 1983 track Blue Monday: The original, the Orkestra Obsolete’s awesome 1933 instrumental, and Leo’s new heavy metal rendition. The fact that it works so well in different styles is a testament to the skills of songwriters Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner.

Dev Patel makes his directorial debut in this Jordan Peele-produced action thriller about a man’s quest to avenge his mother’s murder. After years of being beaten down in an Indian fight club, rage boils over for Patel’s character, and declares war on the evil men who ruined his life and victimized countless others. In theaters 4.5.2024.

Here’s a different take on Disney’s Steamboat Willie now that it’s in the public domain. d o g took Ub Iwerks’ 1928 classic cartoon and converted it into retro pixel art animation. You can play the video now, or, of you’re feeling more ambitions, load up the DOSbox emulator and load this XDV file into XDC Play.

Hibear makes the most versatile insulated bottle you can buy. The stainless steel All-Day Adventure Flask holds up to 32 oz. and includes the parts needed to make pour-over and cold brew coffee, tea, cocktails, infusions, and more. The silicone sleeve at its bottom can also be removed and used as a mug.

This smokeless outdoor propane cooker not only bakes perfectly crisp pizza crust but also gets the toppings right. Its top oven and pizza stone heats from the bottom, while its bottom oven heats from above. It can also be used for cooking steaks, baking casseroles, and more with a top temperature of 500º F.

Inspired by the Backyard Scientist’s industrial laser experiments, YouTuber Styropyro got a cheap but powerful industrial fiber laser of his own. He started by testing the 2-kilowatt laser’s cleaning and burning capabilities; then, he attached a beam-spreading lens to help light things on fire from a long distance.