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Lay’s x IHOP: Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity Chips

Lay’s x IHOP: Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity Chips

Lay’s teamed up with IHOP to bring breakfast flavors to potato chips. These special edition snacks blend natural and artificial flavorings to make them taste like pancakes with strawberry topping, maple syrup, and smoky bacon. Walmart had them on sale for a limited time for just $2.99 a bag, but prices are already rising on eBay for the things.

Sculpting a Bear with a Minigun

Sculpting a Bear with a Minigun

How do you stop a bear from attacking? Take away his right to bear arms. Adam from North of the Border imagines a way to make a grizzly bear more deadly: by arming it with a high-capacity, rapid-fire weapon. After sculpting the bear’s body, head, feet, and hands, he imparted a fur texture before building a mini minigun and ammo pack.

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Car Shakes Off Snow Like a Puppy Dog

Car Shakes Off Snow Like a Puppy Dog

Getting all the snow off your car when you park it outside can be a pain. Chinese automotive company NIO shows off an unconventional use for its SkyRide active suspension system: making its flagship ET9 sedan shake off a thick blanket of snow like a cold puppy dog. Just don’t do it inside the garage, ET9. Good boy.

Retro Tech: Mastervoice Butler in a Box

Retro Tech: Mastervoice Butler in a Box

Artificial intelligence has become a major subject of today’s technology conversations. In 1983, one company marketed an early smart home product designed to control home appliances via voice control like Siri or Alexa. Kevin from Popular Science got his hands on the costly Butler in a Box to explain how it worked without Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or the Internet.

Chicken Nugget (Trailer)

Chicken Nugget (Trailer)

A machine sold by her dad’s company somehow turns a young woman into a chicken nugget. The story gets crazier as her dad and an intern who has a crush on her team up to undo her delicious dilemma. Renowned comedy filmmaker Lee Byeong-heon directed this upcoming Netflix adaptation of a popular Korean webtoon. Premieres 3.15.2024.

EMO: Emote Portrait Alive

EMO: Emote Portrait Alive

This impressive yet creepy AI tech can take a single still image and make it appear to speak or sing any audio. Developed by researchers from Alibaba’s Institute for Intelligent Computing, EMO: Emote Portrait Alive’s model was trained on more than 150 million images to work its magic. The video is peppered with examples of the convincing deepfakery.

Boston Typewriter Orchestra: Selectric Funeral

Boston Typewriter Orchestra: Selectric Funeral

The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is hoping to score a spot on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. Their 2024 submission to the popular show is this mechanical tour de force titled Selectric Funeral, a rhythmic and enigmatic track performed on four vintage typewriters, bells, and effects pedals. It’s also their first song to incorporate an electric typewriter.

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The Wizard of Oz in Alphabetical Order

The Wizard of Oz in Alphabetical Order

In 2004, editor Matt Bucy chopped up The Wizard of Oz and rearranged every sound and word into alphabetical order. The result is the nonsensical but oddly compelling Of Oz the Wizard, or as commenter Jenny Reiswig put it even better, The Wizard of A to Z. Despite the task’s apparent complexity, he says most of the work only took about 20 hours.

Morf Shape-Shifting Fidget Worm

Morf Shape-Shifting Fidget Worm

This fidget toy from Humango Toys is made from interlocking plastic ovals, which can stretch and squeeze from an oblong shape to a palm-size puck. Its tactile interactions help provide sensory stimulation and can reduce boredom and stress. It comes in small and large sizes. Beware of knock-offs. This is the original.

Skating with Computers

Skating with Computers

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.

How a Cat Really Works

How a Cat Really Works

If the internet is to be believed, kitty cats are cute furballs who like to knock things off of tables and star in memes. WVW’s educational video shows us the truth, revealing the never-before-seen inner-workings of a feline. They’ve also posted a How a Bird Works video.

Making Crabman

Making Crabman

Vegans will want to skip this video. After feasting on a shellfish dinner, Minimaus Crafts took the leftover shells, cut them up, and reassembled them into the crab’s ultimate form – a horrifyingly awesome armored character known as Crabman. We felt so wrong watching this, but also couldn’t look away.

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Rhyme or Die

Rhyme or Die

(Gore) It’s not easy to come up with unique ideas for a horror film, but the short Rhyme or Die has done just that. The premise – a madwoman kidnaps five strangers and forces them to rhyme to her beats or face the ultimate punishment. Director Max R Lincoln and writer Alex Moran cooked up one of the most brutal reality competition shows yet.

Guitar + Organ = Guitorgan

Guitar + Organ = Guitorgan

There are electric guitars, and then there’s this thing. SamuraiGuitarist Steve-san Onotera got his hands on one of the weirdest guitars ever, the MCI B-35 Guitorgan. This late 1970s oddity combined a guitar with an electric organ. The hollow-body instrument packs a large circuit board and plays keyboard sounds using sensors between its frets.

Making a 3D-Printed Toilet

Making a 3D-Printed Toilet

Emily the Engineer, proves yet again that just because something CAN be done doesn’t mean it SHOULD be. She recently got a bee in her bonnet about 3D printing a toilet. Before printing the full-size version in pieces, she made a working scale model. After she got the real deal working, she started adding a bunch of unnecessary features.

The Exit 8

The Exit 8

This tense “walking simulator” from Kotake Create drops players into a seemingly-endless subway, where they must wander its tiled hallways to find a way out. The game’s instructions read simply: Don’t overlook any anomalies; If you find anomalies, turn back immediately; If you don’t find anomalies, do not turn back; To go out from Exit 8.

Unmaking a Bowl of Cereal

Unmaking a Bowl of Cereal

TikTok channel Restoration Magic takes things that are already used and puts them back to their original state. In this clip, he took an already-poured bowl of Corn Flakes and milk and made them as good as new. Some of his other restorations include pencil stubs, a broken egg, and already-chewed gum.

The Butt Flamethrower

The Butt Flamethrower

Colin Furze has created all kinds of inventions over the years, from useful to useless. This one falls into the latter bucket, though it could be used to get your campfire going. Because nobody was asking for it, Colin created a flamethrower that mounts inside of his pants and shoots fire from his butt. It’s powered by an aerosol can and an electric igniter.

Weird Airplane Experiments

Weird Airplane Experiments

Peter Sripol is no stranger to making unusual aircraft. In this video, he builds and tests out three weird designs for airworthiness, including a plane with a fuselage made from springs, a propeller that works like a tank tread, and a ridiculous set of wings that resemble Venetian blinds.

Making Clear Ketchup

Making Clear Ketchup

Inspired by a video of a fake bottle of clear Heinz ketchup, mad food scientist Barry Lewis wanted to see if he could make the idea real. What he ended up with was basically a goopy soup, but it’s still clear and tastes like tomatoes. He posted the complete recipe on his website if you dare try it yourself.

Chicken McNuggets Training Video

Chicken McNuggets Training Video

There was lots to love about the 1980s, like Max Headroom, VHS tape boxes, and this McDonald’s training video, created to familiarize the crew with Chicken McNuggets and their sauces. What we got was a hilariously surreal short film with googly-eyed Big Macs and french fries welcoming their new friends to the menu. Brought to you by Tony Pepperoni.

MSCHF x Dremel Gobstomper Shoe Kit

MSCHF x Dremel Gobstomper Shoe Kit
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MSCHF’s Gobstomper shoes are designed to be distressed. So, the mischief makers teamed up with Dremel to bundle the shoes with a rotary tool kit. The shoes come in a black-white-blue colorway, ready for you to wear away their four layers for your own personalized look. The limited purchase drawing ends at 2 pm EST 11.29.23.

Playing the Flötenkreis

Playing the Flötenkreis

We’ve come across some weird musical instruments over the years, so why not add another to the collection? Artist Philipp Läng’s spring-loaded Flötenkreis makes its music by pushing air through a dozen plastic recorders, each set to play a single note. The sounds it produces are more annoying than melodic.

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