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Blitzen, A Clever Rooftop Mounted Beverage Holder That Can Chill a Bottle While You Drive
The Blitzen is a brilliant rooftop mounted beverage holder, created by the team at Deeplocal, that can chill a bottle while you drive to your…
A Very Playful Simon’s Cat Accidentally Leaves His Unraveled Human Out in the Cold
In a very rare scene, Simon and Simon’s Cat were enjoying each other’s company by playing with a fishing rod toy that had a long…
Expert Ping Pong Player Lobbies Back Balls With Different Items That Each Make a Unique Noise
Japanese ping pong player takkyuu geinin demonstrated his expertise in the sport by lobbing back incoming balls with a variety of household and musical items…
An Abandoned Milwaukee Shopping Mall Is Turned Into a Magical Winter Wonderland for Local Kids
Filmmaker Casey Neistat and 18 other YouTube creators partnered with Samsung to transform the long abandoned Northridge Mall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin into a magical winter…
The Puppeteers of Sesame Street Describe in Wonderful Detail How They Operate Their Muppets
The cheery puppeteers of Sesame Street sat down with Wired to discuss and describe in wonderful detail how they operate their Muppets, how they inject…
A Couple of Frolicking Polar Bears Halt an Amorous Tryst to Put Right the BBC Camera Spying on Them
In a rather saucy video from BBC Earth‘s “Polar Bear Spy On The Ice“, actor David Tennant gleefully narrated a scene in which couple of…
Mortal Engines, A Sci-Fi Film About a Giant Machine Version of London Devouring Smaller Mobile Cities
Universal Pictures released an amazing trailer for Mortal Engines, an upcoming sci-fi action adventure film directed by Christian Rivers, written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens,…
Mass, A Hauntingly Evocative Installation Featuring 100 Giant Human Skulls Piled on Top of One Another
A post shared by @ronmueckart on Dec 15, 2017 at 1:49am PST Australian artist Ron Mueck has created “Mass“, a truly haunting installation of 100…
Taking a Ride Through Space Mountain at Walt Disney World With All of the Lights Turned On
Theme Park University took a ride through Space Mountain, the legendary indoor space-themed roller coaster at Walt Disney World, with all of the lights on.…
Firefighters Heroically Rescue a Dog and the Human Who Went to Save Him After Falling Through the Ice
On December 11, 2017, Lt. Justin Mayton with the Harlem-Roscoe Fire Protection District #1 in Roscoe, Illinois expertly and heroically set out onto the frozen…