Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
A Beautiful Macro Time Lapse of Ice Cream Treats Melting
Macro Room melted a variety of ice cream treats in beautiful macro time lapse footage. Ice-Creams are fun and even more fun to watch them…
What’s Inside? Uses a Hatchet to Cut Open Shrieking Rubber Chickens
Dan and Lincoln Markham from the What’s Inside? channel were joined by Cassidy Hilton to cut open shrieking rubber chickens to find out what gives…
An Anthropomorphic Robot Slowly Realizes That Something Is Amiss in New Westworld Trailer
In the new trailer for the highly awaited serial reboot of the 1973 Michael Crichton film Westworld, an anthropomorphic robot named Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood)…
Toys Fight to the Death in a Fun Battle Orchestrated by a Five-Year-Old Boy in ‘The Real Deal’
The Real Deal is a new special effects-filled short film created by French Canadian self-taught director Patrick Boivin, who is known for his Iron Baby…
The ‘Millennial Whoop’, A Musical Phrase That Has Worked Its Way Into Many Modern Pop Songs
Quartz writer Adam Epstein called attention to “The Millennial Whoop“, a term first coined by writer and musician Patrick Metzger in a post on his blog…
Camera-Wearing Eagle Makes Record Breaking Flight Off the Top of the World’s Tallest Building
In March 2015, a noble, camera-wearing eagle named Darshan made an incredible record breaking flight off the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building…
A Dog’s Purpose, A Film About a Canine’s Touching Journey Through Several Lives via Reincarnation
Universal Pictures has released the first official trailer for A Dog’s Purpose, an upcoming comedy drama film directed by Lasse Hallström based on the 2010…
Colin Furze Builds a Deus Ex Style Arm Gauntlet Equipped With Rockets, Ballistic Knives, and a Taser
The makers of the Deus Ex video games asked British inventor Colin Furze to build an arm mounted gauntlet, a lot like what the main…
Simone Giertz Enlists a Friend to Help Demonstrate Her Very Messy Robotic Sandwich Maker
Developer and inventor Simone Giertz, the hilarious creator of robotic devices that seek to help make daily life easier, enlisted her designer friend Fiona Rolander…
John Oliver Humorously Pitches the Superhero He Created When He Was in Fifth Grade
In a web-exclusive video, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver decided to try his hand in the superhero mega-film game and humorously pitched the story…