We’ve seen time and time again that there are other ways to move around besides ordinary wheels. LEGO builder Dr. Engine put together vehicles that run on seven kinds of wheels to see how they performed against various obstacles, including a pile of tires, a staircase, and a hill covered with wood chips. It ends with a tug-of-war between the vehicles.

This premium leather duffel is the perfect antidote to cheap luggage. Loyal Stricklin makes each bag to order in the USA, using Horween English leather, with handles and a shoulder strap made from Italian leather. Its interior compartment will hold a 3-day-weekend’s worth of clothes, and it should have no problem fitting in the overhead bin of most airplanes.

A Thousand Suns is a series of science fiction short films created by BlackMilk Studio and Macgregor, sci-fi fanatics tired of the remake and sequel cycle in mainstream media. Each short is under 5 minutes long, but they all have that imaginative spark and are wonderfully shot. The first six episodes are available at the bottom of this post or on YouTube.

This compact clip-on flashlight from Fitorch was designed for versatility. Attach it to your belt, a hat, or a backpack strap for hands-free illumination. It has five settings, including a 1000-lumen mode and a strobe mode. It’ll run for up to 20 hours in 2-lumen Eco mode but only 45 minutes at 150 lumens due to its small internal battery.

Luma AI’s mobile app makes it easy to capture spatial 3D models of objects and even landscapes using your smartphone. You can share or embed the scan as a 3D video or export it as a 3D object. It’s fairly low-fidelity at the moment, but it’s enough to be useful. You can check out user-created 3D videos on Luma AI’s website.

Randall Munroe and Henry Reich’s What If? attempts to answer the hypothetical question of what might happen if every living human stood close together, jumped off of the ground, and landed at the same exact time. While the answer to that question is less exciting than you might think, there would be plenty of unintended consequences of such an event.

We’ve been watching Fallout, so a post-apocalyptic wasteland is top of mind. Should such a catastrophe come to pass, the latest Worst-Case Scenario book has got you covered. Whether it’s robots, nukes, aliens, or a pandemic that ends the world as we know it, you’ll find useful pointers from experts to help you not only survive but help rebuild civilization.

This way-too-short film from Yeti Pictures and director Tony Zagoraios features a series of miniature vignettes inspired by classic movie scenes, including The Exorcist, King Kong, Jurassic Park, and more. The animation and modeling team did a great job making it look like it was filmed with models and action figures, but it’s all CGI.

Strangely released on April 1st of all days, these two variants of adidas’ timeless street soccer sneakers rock more than just new colorways. They’re the first Samba OGs with a mesh textile upper, making them even lighter and more comfortable. The mesh variant comes in either light brown with white accents or white with faded red accents.

Acebeam’s palm-size Terminator M2-X flashlight is incredibly versatile. It has white spot and flood beams and RGB accent lighting in seven colors. It offers six brightness levels, red and green signal flashes, and a color-changing mode. Available with a 3200-lumen cool white or 2000-lumen high CRI90 light source powered by a replaceable 18650 lithium-ion battery.

We love traveling to exotic destinations. But where travelers go, criminals follow. This nylon wallet from Zero Grid protects your belongings from pickpockets by keeping them around your neck and under your shirt. Measuring  5.7″ W x 7.5 H”, it’s less bulky than other neck wallets while providing storage for passports, cash, credit cards, and papers.

There’s a whole sub-genre of YouTube videos featuring various objects being jammed into industrial shredders. Atomic Marvel went to the extreme and stuck the entire sun into a shredder to see what would happen. We’re surprised it didn’t melt the machine as soon as it hit the gears with its 10,000-degree surface temperature.

Beaverlab’s digital telephoto camera has a 400mm lens and can shoot distant objects at 36x optical/200x digital magnification. Its 48mp sensor can capture craters on the moon and animals in motion. It works with a smartphone app for monitoring and tweaking your shots. It can also capture 4K video and HDR. There’s also a 40mm version for closer subjects.

It’s hard enough to protect a soccer goal from a single kicker, so what happens to the goalie when a hundred balls are kicked their way? The gang from How Ridiculous tested this and other ideas where the visiting team has way more players than the home team. Every game basically turns into dodgeball on steroids.

This beautifully customized wristwatch from IFL Watches started as a stock Citizen Tsuyosa Automatic with a stainless steel case and link band. What makes it special is the enamel dotting its face, evoking tiny stars and planets. The watch has a 40mm, 21-jewel movement, and a 40-hour power reserve. Just 100 of these hand-painted pieces will be made.

Engineer James Bruton adds to his collection of unusual vehicles with the creation of a single-seater that rolls on four 3D-printed mechanum wheels. The not-quite-a-bike uses motors and an inertial measurement unit to remain balanced. By changing the speed and direction of each wheel, it can move forward, backward, sideways, and spin around on a dime. Its agility is quite impressive.

Never be caught without water when you carry this 1-gallon insulated bottle from Zukro. It’s made from food-safe 18/8 stainless steel and keeps drinks cold for up to 36 hours. It’ll also hold hot drinks for up to 20 hours. Its lid has a flip-up straw and a pouring spout, and there’s a folding handle and a hook for hanging.

Generative AI can be used for good or evil. In the case of Adobe Premiere Pro, we’re excited about the potential of its AI tools to improve video editing workflows with the ability to add or remove objects with just a couple of clicks and extend scenes if they don’t fit your timeline. They also are testing integration with models like Sora AI to generate entire scenes.

This perfectly sized everyday knife has a slim, modern design with a sharp 2.8″ blade made from VG-10 stainless steel. It has a slide-lock mechanism with an ambidextrous thumb disc, and its handle scales are made from lightweight Micarta, known for its excellent grip. It’s also available in an XL size, as well as one with a damascus blade.

Electric pencil sharpeners are plenty fast. But say you have 100 pencils to sharpen. Shaving a second or two off of each pencil can add up. Current Concept wanted to see how quickly a pencil could be sharpened by rigging up an off-the-shelf sharpener to various power tools. That exposed sharpener mechanism looks terrifying once it gets up to speed.

The V10 is a compact, 10″ long axe that’s perfect for carrying in or on your backpack. It weighs just 1.27 pounds, and its high-carbon steel blade is good for chopping branches, small logs, and kindling. Its handle is made from reinforced fiberglass with an ergonomic TPR grip. Includes two kinds of blade protectors.

In this animated short film by Job, Joris & Marieke, a narcissistic social media influencer suddenly becomes invisible and loses the one thing he values more than anything – the ability to garner attention based on his appearance. It’s a funny but sad look of the shallow nature of social media. In Dutch with English subtitles.

This smaller version of Olight’s powerful Marauder 2 flashlight can still crank out some serious brightness. With a turbo output of 7,000 lumens, its flood beam is visible from up to 1,017 feet, and its 900-lumen spot beam projects light up to 1,968 feet. It’s also got lower-intensity red, green, and blue light modes, and comes in four aluminum body colors.