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A Little French Girl Devises a Terribly Adorable Plot to Get Away With Sneaking Candy
A little French girl named Capucine and her mother devise a terribly adorable plot to hide the fact that they snuck too much candy in…
Builders Create the Double-Decker Couch From ‘The LEGO Movie’ for a Family of LEGO Super-Fans
AWE Me series Super-Fan Builds (previously), master builder and prop maker Tim Baker and his team construct the double-decker couch from The LEGO Movie. The couch was built…
A Flux Capacitor Replica Styled Like Doc Brown’s Time-Travel Device From the ‘Back to the Future’ Films
The officially-licensed Flux Capacitor replica by Diamond Select Toys was built to look just like Doc Brown‘s time-travel device from the Back to the Future…
The HexHog, A Six-Wheeled All-Terrain Wheelchair to Give Off-Road Access to Anyone
The HexHog is a six-wheeled all-terrain wheelchair meant to give off-road access to anyone. The vehicle was designed by Sion Pierce, an engineer who was inspired…
98 Near-Perfect Cubes of Raw Food Arranged in Oddly Pleasing Symmetry
Artist duo Lernert & Sander (previously) cut different raw foods into 98 near-perfect cubes and photographed them for the poster “Cubes,” which was created for…
Italian Artist Transforms the Familiar Faces of the U.S. Dollar, British Pound, and Chinese Yuan Into Superheroes
Italian artist Alessandro Rabatti‘s latest project “Facebank” features the familiar faces found on the U.S. five-dollar bill (President Lincoln), the British 50-pound note (Queen Elizabeth…
‘Love Is the Most Powerful Magic’, An Album of ‘Harry Potter’-Themed Songs
Love Is the Most Powerful Magic is an album of Harry Potter-themed songs by Jonathan Mann (previously). Mann funded the album through a Kickstarter campaign we covered…
‘Thing Explainer’, A New Book Explaining Things With the 1,000 Most Common Words by ‘xkcd’ Creator Randall Munroe
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words is an upcoming book by xkcd creator Randall Munroe that explains things using only illustrations and the 1,000 English…
‘A Softer World’ Webcomic to End After 12 Years and Plan to Release a Collection of Their Favorite Comics
The incredible, weird, and often melancholy webcomic A Softer World by Joey Comeau and Emily Horne is ending after 12 years, and it’s going out…
‘Minority Report’, A Fox Television Series Based on the Steven Spielberg Movie and Philip K. Dick Short Story
Minority Report is a new Fox series based on the Steven Spielberg movie adapted from the Philip K. Dick short story “The Minority Report.” The…