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La La Land Retold as an Old-School 8-Bit Animated Video Game
CineFix released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema where they retell the story of La La Land as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This…
Alex Trebek Shows Off His Mad Rapping Skillz Reading the Lyrics in the Rap Category on Jeopardy
How about Alex Trebek rapping on Jeopardy! tonight pic.twitter.com/MNy9CEkf1p — Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) February 21, 2017 Alex Trebek demonstrates his rapping talent when reading the…
An Electrical Engineer Tries and Fails to Build a Tesla Coil Vacuum Chamber
ElectroBOOM host Mehdi Sadaghdar wanted to use his Tesla coil inside a vacuum chamber, so he tried to build one himself. Unfortunately he melted his…
A Woman Shows Off Her 1957 Chevy, The Only Car She’s Driven Since Buying It New in 1957
Grace Braeger shows off her 1957 Chevy which is the only car she’s owned or driven since buying it new in 1957.
An Album of Electronic Music That Creates Animated Music Videos on an Oscilloscope
Jerobeam Fenderson created the album Oscilloscope Music, which uses electronic music to animate music videos on a Tektronix 5103N oscilloscope. Using different types of software,…
Creative Cuban Business Women Sell Flying Pizzas That Are Lowered From the Roof of a Restaurant
Creative Cuban business women Marta Castaeda and Marta del Barrio operate A Mi Manera (My Way), a pizzeria that lowers their food to their customers…
Musician Performs a Hilarious Multi-Track Cover of ‘Yakety’ on Kazoo
Eric of EricsWurld performed a hilarious version of the classic Boots Randolph song “Yakety” (also the theme from Benny Hill) on kazoo with and amazing…
An Amazing Underground Pipeline That Carries Beer From a Bruges, Belgian Brewery to Its Bottling Plant
In May 2016 we wrote about an underground pipeline in Bruges, Belgium that would efficiently transfer beer from the historic Brouwerij De Halve Maan (Half…
An Origami-Inspired Ballistic Shield Designed to Stop Bullets and Protect Law Enforcement
Mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Terri Bateman and their colleagues at Brigham Young University have developed an origami-inspired ballistic shield that can be easily…
Traditional Hand Crafted Wooden Puzzle Sculptures With a Brilliantly Modern Pixelated Twist
Taiwanese artist Hsu Tung Han crafts absolutely beautiful wooden sculptures that first appear as traditional but give way to incredible pixelation, as if each piece…