Swiss skier Andri Ragettli, who previously showed off his excellent parkour skills in 2017, has returned to further showcase his agile balance-focus talent with an incredible series of moves. These Rube Goldberg style moves include riding atop the handlebars of a bicycle and walking a tightrope while juggling three balls. Floor is Lava – Parcour…
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A Badass Ninjabread Man Cookie Baking Kit
The online novelty food distributor Brand Castle has put a rather amusing twist on a classic holiday cookie. The traditional gingerbread man just sits quietly and politely wherever he is, however, this Ninjabread Man Cookie Baking Kit is a bit more badass. It comes complete with enough cookie mix, icing and four Ninja cookie cutters…
An Incredible Skateboard Rig That Helps Kids With Cerebral Palsy and Other Disabilities Ride a Skateboard
Steven Pinto and Daniel Paniagua of Studio Neuro work to ensure that children (and adults) who have cerebral palsy and other disabilities get to enjoy the fun things in life. With this sentiment in mind, the studio has built an incredible rig that allows a person with limited mobility to ride a skateboard. Skateboarding as…
Autonomous Vision-Enabled Robotic Dog Poop Scooper
Beetl Robotics has efficiently addressed the often procrastinated chore of picking after a dog with their robotic dog poop scooper. This autonomous machine is similar in nature to a Roomba indoor cleaner with a big exception – this robot has electronic vision to locate and zero in on its bounty, a clamshell scooper to dispose…
A Whimsical Grandfather Clock With a Sassy Stance
While out thrifting one day, shopper Jessie Bultman found a wonderfully grandfather clock that was positioned in a rather “sassy” stance. I see all your sassy teapots, but I think I found something even more sassy. I present to you all the sassy grandfather clock! It’s not clear who made that particular clock, but Vancouver…
How Dogs and Cats React to the Noise of the Television or Music Left on When Their Humans Leave the House
Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler reports on a 2017 study of British households who had dogs showed that a good percentage of the humans left the television or music playing when they left the house for the day. A separate study in the same played music for cats to understand the results. The…
A Big Brainless Unicellular Yellow Blob That Moves, Eats and Repairs Itself While Navigating Mazes
A big yellow blob with very unique traits has made its first formal museum debut at the Parc Zoologique de Paris. This brainless, unicellular lemon-colored organism known as “Physarum polycephalum is neither plant nor animal nor fungus yet it can remarkably move, eat, repair itself when broken apart and even navigates mazes of varying shapes….
Creepy Rhubarb ‘Eye’ Pies
In 2017, cake and food enthusiast Lorraine Elliott, aka “Not Quite Nigella”, created wonderfully creepy vanilla-scented rhubarb mini-pies, each with a big lidded eye peeking out from the crust Be careful my pretties because you never know who might be watching you! Because on Friday the 13th or Halloween, even pies have eyes! A vanilla…