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5-in-1 Emergency Car Tool

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If you’re ever in a car accident and can’t open your door, smashing the window may be the only way to escape. This emergency tool can easily shatter a window and cut through seat belt webbing. It also packs a white LED flashlight, a red SOS light, and a 2200 mAh battery pack. Save an extra 15% through 1.19.2022 with code JAN15.

Spyderco Stovepipe Knife

Spyderco Stovepipe Knife
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Based on David Rydbom’s “Bill the Butcher” custom knife, Spyderco’s Stovepipe has a hefty 2.78″ cleaver blade made from 20CV steel. Its handle is made from two pieces of durable, lightweight titanium in a rugged stonewashed finish. A large fingerhole in the blade makes for easy deployment.

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LEGO Flywheel Car

LEGO Flywheel Car

GazR’s Extreme Brick Machines built this unique LEGO Technic vehicle that stores energy in a flywheel. A rig consisting of 21 Powered-Up L motors and six Smart Hubs transfers power to the flywheel, then the car can continue driving on its own. It doesn’t go very far but has enough torque to climb a hill.

LOTR Giant Spider Diorama

LOTR Giant Spider Diorama

Minibricks created this amazing miniature based on the scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King where Frodo faces Shelob, the giant spider demon. They crafted the environment by carving foam, while the spider and Frodo were 3D printed then meticulously hand-painted.

Snarky Birds Dish Towels

Snarky Birds Dish Towels
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This set of three cotton dish towels adds a bit of color and nature to your kitchen. It’s just that these fine feathered friends have a bad attitude, and if you took a second to read what they’re saying, they’re over it. Sayings include “See You in Hell,” “Everything Popular is Wrong,” and “Hell Is Other People.”

The Ice Hoverboard

The Ice Hoverboard

We’ve seen how circular saw blades can be used to provide traction on ice – at least until they cut all the way through. The Q modified one of those wheeled “hoverboards” to ride on saw blades. He added metal plates to each of the blades’ teeth so it doesn’t dig in as much, but we still wouldn’t want to fall onto them.

Where’s Bowie in Berlin? Jigsaw Puzzle

Where’s Bowie in Berlin? Jigsaw Puzzle
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This fun puzzle was inspired by David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. Illustrated by Kev Gahan, the 500-piece puzzle features a scene of 1970s West Berlin filled with all kinds of colorful people, and Bowie scattered in the crowd in his various personas. There’s another Where’s Bowie? puzzle that takes place on the Moon.

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Glowing Mushroom Mural

Glowing Mushroom Mural

Watch as these artists turn a blank wall into an imaginative and dreamlike painting of mushrooms and a snail that glows brilliantly under UV light. We love how they used fluorescent paint drips to create those colorful stripes.

Civivi Perf Frame Lock Knife

Civivi Perf Frame Lock Knife
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This pocket knife features a skeletonized stainless steel handle design that reduces weight without compromising strength. It has a 3.12″ long drop-point blade and a frame lock. A ceramic ball bearing ensures smooth operation, and it includes a reversible pocket clip and a lanyard hole. Comes in black or stainless finishes.

Superb Owl Origami

Superb Owl Origami

Romanian origami artist Patrick Alberto Vraja shows off an awesome paper sculpture he created of a Blakiston fish owl, based on a design by Katsuta Kyohei. He folded the amazing bird entirely from two layered 150cm x 150cm sheets of tissue paper.

LEGO Ideas Globe

LEGO Ideas Globe
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This 2585-piece LEGO set (#21332) gives you everything you need to create a spinning globe of Earth. Based on a concept by LEGO fan Guillaume Roussel, the vintage-style globe comes with glow-in-the-dark ocean and continent markers. The core structure is made from Technic parts, while the exterior is made from colorful LEGO plates.

Rynx Mechanical Tube Display

Rynx Mechanical Tube Display

German company Rynx is working on an innovative kind of mechanical signage that display text or numbers on a series of turning rings. They can be used individually or stacked for multi-line displays, and come in white-on-black or black-on-white. They’re taking pre-orders in Europe now with deliveries starting in Q3 2022.

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World’s Smallest Atari 2600

World’s Smallest Atari 2600
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This teensy replica of the Atari 2600 comes with a miniature TV cabinet. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and is loaded with nine 8-bit video games, including Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Combat, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong Tempest, Warlords, and Pac-Man. They’re not the original 2600 versions though.

Moon Knight (Trailer)

Moon Knight (Trailer)

Oscar Isaac stars in this Marvel Studios series about a man who struggles with chaotic thoughts and dissociative identity disorder. As he starts to exhibit powers that wax and wane with the phases of the moon, one of his personas turns to vigilantism. They had us at Oscar Isaac. Premieres 3.30.2022 on Disney+.

Recycled Ocean Plastic Guitar

Recycled Ocean Plastic Guitar

It’s a sad story we’ve heard before – our oceans are filled with discarded plastic that is destroying fragile ecosystems. To do his small part to help, Burls Art teamed up with 4Ocean who recovers and cleans plastic from the water. He then melted down the plastic chips and formed it into the body of a colorful electric guitar.

The 145-Gear Snowflake

The 145-Gear Snowflake

JBV Creative is always coming up with cleverly-engineered machines using 3D printed parts. This fun plaything is made up of interconnected gears arranged in a snowflake pattern, and all of its 145 gears turn smoothly with the turn of a knob on its back. You can purchase the STL files for printing here.

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