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Tiny Paris Apartment

Tiny Paris Apartment

Paris, France is renowned for its tiny apartments. The designers at Kitoko Studio came up with a way to cram an entire living space, including bed, storage, dining, bathroom and kitchenette inside what amounts to a closet – just 86 square feet.

Self-Stabilizing Boat

Self-Stabilizing Boat

Velodyne Marine’s Martini 1.5 is a motorboat with an active suspension system which keeps its deck and cabin level as it skims across choppy waters, improving marine safety, and bringing sea-sickness to its knees. More at WIRED.

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Mullet Migration

Mullet Migration

A mullet isn’t just a bad haircut – it’s also the name of a small fish. In this amazing footage captured by BlacktipH Fishing in Florida, we witness thousands of the fish skimming the surface, and their predators thinning the schools.

OK Go: I Won’t Let You Down

OK Go: I Won’t Let You Down

OK Go has a history of creating tricky music videos, and their latest clip doesn’t disappoint. This precisely coordinated ballet of self-balancing scooters, umbrellas, and dizzying camerawork will leave you scratching your head by the end.

Hydrogen Peroxide Helicopter

Hydrogen Peroxide Helicopter

This one-man helicopter is powered by hydrogen peroxide gas rockets attached to the tips of its rotors. While we’re guessing it’s not the safest aircraft ever made, we’re duly impressed that it gets off the ground at all.

Emulsifier

Emulsifier

Mixed media artist Thomas Medicus created this extraordinary sculpture from 160 individual hand-painted glass strips. As you move around the anamorphic object, it transforms into four completely different images. More on Colossal.

Cooking with a Wall of Fire

Cooking with a Wall of Fire

In this documentary to promote cooking community ChefSteps, culinary artists built a massive cooking wall from 30 steel drums to roast whole pigs. The project didn’t exactly go smoothly, but the end result was impressive.

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The Big Lebowski Pinball Machine

The Big Lebowski Pinball Machine

The dude abides in this new officially-licensed pinball machine. It has a tiny bowling alley, a white russian, and video and audio samples from the movie. Pre-order by 10/19 for a bunch of swag, including a rug to tie the room together.

Paper Airplane Machine Gun

Paper Airplane Machine Gun

This amazing device was built using 3D printing, a cordless screwdriver, and mechanical know-how. What does it do? It takes flat sheets of paper, folds paper airplanes, and fires them. If ever a project needed to be on Kickstarter, it’s this.

Giant Aluminum Chess Set

Giant Aluminum Chess Set
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Restoration Hardware’s beautiful aluminum chess set features oversize pieces which measure from 5- to 8-inches tall. The folding, inlaid wooden board measures a substantial 29-1/2″ square when opened. Hulk hands not included.

Tractor Gymkhana

Tractor Gymkhana

Driver Rickard Nilsson and his racing team took another old tractor and turned it into a 225 horsepower driftmobile. Watch as Rickard hoons around, burning rubber, and only flipping the top-heavy vehicle once. We love roll cages!

ISS Geography Lesson

ISS Geography Lesson

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio provide a look at our big blue marble from the vantage point of the International Space Station’s cupola, pointing out cities and landmarks as they orbit far above our planet.

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Blade Runner: Effects Pedal Cover

Blade Runner: Effects Pedal Cover

Musician Bill Ruppert demonstrates how to reproduce Vangelis’ epic theme music from Blade Runner using nothing more than an electric guitar and Electro-Harmonix‘ effect pedals. It’s the kettledrum part that really gets us.

Horror Movie Action Figures

Horror Movie Action Figures
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For their Kenner-esque ReAction line, Funko is releasing a complete series of classic horror movie characters as 3.75″ tall action figures, including Jason Vorhees, Pinhead, Mike Meyers, and Freddie Krueger among others.

Low-Level Fighter Training

Low-Level Fighter Training

Fly along with a U.S. Navy pilot in an F/A-18F Super Hornet for some dizzying POV footage as his fighter jet conducts a low-altitude training run, starting over the Pacific Ocean then flying over Northern California and Oregon.

Fantastic Fox Display Window

Fantastic Fox Display Window

This amazing window display for Hermès was created by Thibault Zimmermann and Lucie Thomas aka Zim&Zou, who we’ve featured previously. While many of the objects are papercraft, the fox was made from leather.

Lexus: Strobe

Lexus: Strobe

Directed by Alec Berg as part of Lexus’ Amazing in Motion series, dozens of stuntmen were rigged up all over Kuala Lumpur in LED suits to give the illusion of a single parkour athlete crossing the city. Behind the scenes footage here.

No Man’s Sky (Gameplay)

No Man’s Sky (Gameplay)

The E3 2014 trailer for No Man’s Sky shows off even more of the incredible procedurally-generated worlds from this survival and exploration title headed to PS4 (and possibly other platforms). We cannot wait to play this.

Pirate Ship Kite

Pirate Ship Kite
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Windy day? While you could set sail on the high seas for adventure, this easy-to-fly 3-dimensional pirate ship kite lets you go sailing without ever leaving the beach. Check them out on video at Vat19.

Project Morpheus: Night Footage

Project Morpheus: Night Footage

We’ve previously seen footage of NASA’s Project Morpheus, but this nighttime footage is even cooler. It’s capable of taking off, hovering, flying, and automatically landing itself – in the dark. Oh, and Sony needs to rename their project.

Working Wolverine Claws

Working Wolverine Claws

Extreme builder Colin Furze (of flame-throwing scooter fame) made these deadly steel replicas of Wolverine’s adamantium claws can both extend or retract with the push of a button. What could possibly go wrong? Build video here.

Laser-Cut Movie Posters

Laser-Cut Movie Posters
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Artist Spacewolf laser engraves cherry wood to create these totally awesome limited-edition posters. In addition to flicks like Godzilla, he’s done posters of popular TV shows like Game of Thrones and True Detective as well.

Crocodiles in Slow-Mo

Crocodiles in Slow-Mo

This video footage from Australia’s Crocosaurus Cove captures the amazing muscular forms of crocodiles jumping from the water to grab treats off a fishing line. Anyone up for a visit to the Cage of Death?

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