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VertiGo, A Wall-Climbing Robot That Can Easily Transition From the Ground to a Wall
The VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot created by ETH Zurich and Disney Research that can easily transition from driving on the ground to maneuvering up a…
The Downton Abbey Household Looks Toward the Future In the Final Season of the Series
The trailer for the highly-awaited final season of the post-Edwardian period series Downton Abbey promises a great deal of change within the household. The trailer…
Kylo Ren Realizes That All Star Wars Characters Have Stupid Names in an Animated Short by CollegeHumor
In a new animated short by CollegeHumor, Kylo Ren reads off a list of bounty hunters and comes to realize that all characters in Star…
An Honest Trailer for Die Hard
Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to the original Die Hard film from 1988. Wrap out the holiday season with the best Christmas movie…
Massachusetts Nursing Home Brings in Llamas and Other Unusual Animals to Visit Their Residents
The Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton, Massachusetts offers their residents therapy visits with dogs, chickens and even fish. There’s also Travis, a…
Jumpy the Remarkably Talented Dog Legibly Paints His Own Name With a Paintbrush in His Mouth
Jumpy, the talented Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix who can jump, flip, dance, ride a skateboard and even perform a bit of parkour, showed off his…
Astronaut Leland Melvin Explains the Physical Changes That Happen to a Person’s Body in Space
Astronaut Leland Melvin explains some of the physical changes that happen to a person’s body in space in a video by Great Big Story. In zero…
Meadow ‘Meadowlark’ Lemon III (1932-2015), The Smiling Clown Prince of the Harlem Globetrotters
Meadow “Meadowlark” Lemon III, the effervescent and extremely talented “Clown Prince” of The Harlem Globetrotters passed away at home in his sleep on December 27,…
How To Turn an Empty Box Into a Foosball Game
Dave Hax shows how to turn an empty cardboard box into a table soccer/football (Foosball) game. How to make a table top soccer or football…
A Low-Cost Version of the Lightsaber Resistant Z6 Riot Control Baton From The Force Awakens
Make: community editor Caleb Kraft has created a low-cost version of the lightsaber resistant Z6 riot baton a First Order riot control Stormtrooper used to…