“The Mortuary Assistant” by Dark Stone Digital is a fascinating but somewhat macabre video game in which the player is asked to take over for the regular mortician who was called away on an emergency. Armed only with a list, the player must take over all the essential functions of embalming a departed soul. The…
A Pull-Tab Flip Chart of Song Lyrics As They Might Be Misheard by Someone Who’s Hungry While at a Club
Artist and comedienne Bec Hill (previously) created a hilarious flip chart with pull-tab illustrations of foods from deliberately mininterpreted lyrics in songs to specifically promote the BBC One show The Hit List. Aptly entitled “When You’re in the Club and You’re Hungry…”, Hill shows how hunger takes over everything. A follow up to “When you…
Floating an Iron Anvil in a Tub Full of Liquid Mercury
CodyDon Reeder carefully filled a tub full of mercury and then set a heavy iron anvil on top. Despite the anvil’s substantial weight, it floated easily above the shimmering liquid. Reeder even tried to sink the anvil, but it just kept popping up again. This is due to the varying density between the two metals….
Trained Cats Competitively Ring a Bell for Treats
A couple of very clever cats named Kisrita and Velvet (previously) learned a long time ago, that they would get treats whenever they rang a nearby little bell. Both felines were very quick to the draw, keeping a close eye to ensure that the other didn’t get more. At one point, however, Velvet decided that…
An Amazing Bloody, Beating ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ Cake
Alasdair Martin proudly shared a cake that his mother Jane made for an office Valentine’s Day party. This amazing cake features a bloody, beating heart that pops up from the text of the chilling Edgar Allen Poe short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”. All cake, all edible, all pumpy. My mom whipped this together for the…
A Frighteningly Realistic Deepfake That Inserts Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. Into ‘Back to the Future’
Video editor ezryderx47 has made a frighteningly realistic deepfake video that replaces actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in their respective roles as Marty McFly and Doc Brown in Back to the Future. In their stead, Tom Holland (Spider-Man) and Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) take on the the iconic roles. Thanks Chip Beale!
Professor Hacks His Arm Prosthesis to Plug Into a Synthesizer to Control the Music Using His Thoughts
Bertolt Meyer, a German psychology professor who was born without a left arm, very cleverly created a specialized converter called the “Synlimb”, with the help of his husband Daniel Theiler and Koma Elektronik. This brilliant hack channels the electrical current from his own body into a measurable voltage, sends it through to his synthesizer, allowing…
Respirator Masks Custom Printed With the User’s Face to Work With Facial Recognition Software
Danielle Baskin, a designer in San Francisco who “makes trendy dystopian products”, has created a line unique N95 respiratory masks that work with facial recognition software. Rather than attempting to work around the safety masks, they custom-print the bottom half of the user’s face onto the mask itself. This idea lends an ingeniously simple answer…