An essential reference guide for setting up your own blacksmith workshop and working with metal. The first half of author Nicholas Wicks’ book covers shop safety, equipment, and techniques, while the second half offers 55 simple projects like tools, hardware, utensils, and decorative objects you can create.

Car companies use a variety of methods to test the suspension and handling of new cars in development. They usually do terrain testing on shaker machine and outdoor courses. Brick Technology built a treadmill that uses and LEGO brick obstacles to test various suspension setups for LEGO Technic cars.

This unique system parks cars in an underground garage while taking up minimal space. TreviPark’s silo-shaped parking lot has spaces set up in a circular arrangement around a central elevator which can rotate to access a specific car, then lift it to the surface. Here’s an interior view from another car’s perspective.

Big budget game titles hire A-list actors to voice characters these days, but Videogamedunkey reminds us that it takes much more than acting talent to pull off a convincing performance in video games. Scriptwriters, animators, game directors, translators, and actors must all do their best work or it all falls apart.

Glen Makes created this wonderful little diorama of a miniature Millennium Falcon as hovers over a sandy planet below. The detailed ship model’s LED lighting and the backdrop image really bring it all together. (Thanks, Mike!)

Tactical Victory’s ultra-slimline wallet can securely hold as few as one card and as many as 15 cards, thanks to its resilient elastic band. The body of the wallet is made from genuine leather, and the elastic comes in one of six accent colors. Made in the U.S.A.

(PG-13: Language) America’s most self-important anti-hero is back and ready to achieve peace no matter how many people it kills. John Cena reprises his dolt of a character from James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad in this HBO Max series which drops 1.13.2022.

Despite its compact looks, the Tuck backpack is quite spacious. It’s got padded compartments that can hold a 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro AND a 12.9-inch iPad, a large center storage space, and stretchy side pockets for an umbrella and a water bottle. It comes in full-grain leather with ballistic nylon or waxed canvas versions.

Pick Your Poison is an adult party game that asks players to choose from two very unpleasant scenarios to try and guess which one the rest of the table will go with. Players earn points each time they guess the majority answer. This edition includes some seriously NSFW suggestions, so it’s definitely not for the kids.

Artist DP Truong previously showed us how he uses a compass to draw black and white portraits. Now he’s taken that idea to another level by drawing and erasing six Marvel characters in the same spot on the same sheet of paper. The time-lapse footage is as magical as the drawings themselves.

With a record low temperature of -64.4°C (-83.9°F), Yakutsk, Russia, is known as the coldest city in the world. Local resident Kiun B braved the outdoors on a typically chilly winter day to perform six experiments to show just how quickly stuff freezes there. We need to try that banana hammer trick here in Chicago.

This elongated version of Gerber’s Prybrid tool has a longer pry bar, providing added leverage for pulling nails and separating items. In addition to its retractable utility blade, it functions as a wire stripper, screwdriver, and bottle opener, and comes with a short length of paracord.

Matt Pritchard’s trick chess set took home first prize in the 2021 Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Using a mirror and an anamorphic camouflage shield, the moving white queen only appears in the mirrored image. Gizmodo compiled more of the year’s best illusions here.

This artful deck of cards features colorful stained glass imagery inspired by a powerful mythological entity. Printed by the US Playing Card Company with an Air-Cushion finish and packed in a matching box with a custom stained glass seal.

Usually, you have to stand in line at an amusement park if you want to go on a thrill ride. But with this rolling car you can spin yourself silly in the comfort of your own driveway. You can buy one for yourself on Alibaba if you dare. And there’s no way this thing is street-legal, so don’t even try.

Artist PaulDeGraaf aka PaperPaul creates awesome pop-up cards based on memes. Among our favorites are Leonardo DiCaprio laughing, Disappearing Homer, and of course Shut up and take my money! Most of them aren’t available for sale, other than the Dumpster fire and an upcoming This Is Fine collab.