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A Meat Tenderizer Mallet Based on Thor’s Hammer
Seven20 of Underground Toys LLC has created an official Marvel Thor Mjolnir meat tenderizer. This little hammer is a very clever visual pun that wields…
Musician Performs a Beautiful Song Played on an ‘Ear Pick Piano’ Built Out of Found and Recycled Items
Tokyo musician Sami Elu played for Kuma Films, an original song “The Accountant” on an Ear Pick Piano, an instrument of his own design made…
Hand Crafted, Comfy Looking Seating Sculptures Depicting Endangered Species by Designer Porky Hefer
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Southern Guild (@southernguildgallery) on Jun 13, 2018 at 2:40am PDT South African designer Porky Hefer, in…
A Brilliant 43 Minute Highlight Video of Queen in Concert at Various Shows During the 1970s
The surviving members of Queen have a released a brilliant 43 minute highlight video of the band in concert during the 1970s, just as they…
Danny DeVito Shows How to Peel and Eat a Hard Boiled Egg on Stage While Clearly Delivering Lines
In 2017 actor Danny DeVito starred in a Broadway production of the 1968 Arthur Miller play The Price as a used furniture dealer who haggles…
A Hungry Polar Bear Repeatedly Tries to Break Into the Reinforced Box Protecting a BBC Wildlife Filmmaker
A very hungry polar bear attempted to break into the reinforced box that was protecting BBC wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan.
Engineer Mounts High-Speed Camera on Rotating Lawn Mower Blade to Capture It Destroying Objects
Vancouver engineer David Kronstein decided to put his beautiful $3,000 Chronos high-speed camera to the test. After building a secure mount that would completely protect…
A Clever Interface That Transforms 2D Photo Subjects Into 3D Animations That Can Walk Off the Image
Researchers Chung-Yi Weng, Brian Curless and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman from the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington have created “Photo…
Anatomy of New Year’s
“Anatomy of New Year’s” by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands
A Little Corgi Dog Happily Rides Up and Down on His Human’s Flexing Legs While Chewing on His Shoe
An adorable little Corgi named Pepper Potts aka Peppa quite happily laid across his human’s ankles and rode up and down as his human flexed…