Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Rémi Gaillard and His Friends Cause Trouble Around Town While Dressed Up as Different ‘Tetris’ Bricks
French prankster Rémi Gaillard (previously) and a group of his friends recently pulled off a new prank where they caused trouble around town while dressed…
Lifelike Full-Body Muscle Suits That Range From Lean to Mega-Sized Muscle Tones
Flex Design Costumes has created an impressive collection of full-body muscle suits that range from lean to mega-sized muscle tones. If the Hulk-like Mega size…
Fetch and Freight, A Pair of Automated Warehouse Robots by Fetch Robotics
Fetch and Freight are a pair of automated warehouse robots by Fetch Robotics. The Fetch is a robot that can find and select specific items…
Street Artist JerkFace Creates Ren and Stimpy Mural in Brooklyn
New York City-based street artist JerkFace has recently created a large mural featuring Ren Höek and Stimpson J. “Stimpy” Cat, the main animated characters from…
Harvard Develops a Swarm of 1,024 Autonomous ‘Kilobots’ That Assemble Themselves Into Elaborate Shapes
Computer scientists and engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a swarm of 1,024 autonomous…
Architect Turns Basement Into an Amazing Lounge With Organized Storage for His 250,000 LEGO Bricks & Accessories
Jeffrey Pelletier, a Seattle-based architect and owner of Board & Vellum, renovated an old home built in 1902 and turned a portion of the basement…
An Amusing Animation That Shows What a Trip to the Park Looks Like from a Dog’s Perspective
Man and Dog" is an amusing animation by Psyop and Duncan Studios for that shows what a trip to the park looks like from a dog's perspective.
A Scratch-Off World Map That Lets Travelers Keep Track of Which Countries They Have Visited
Art. Lebedev Studio has created the I Was Here map, a scratch-off world map that lets travelers keep track of their adventures, one country at…
Drawing Shit Every Day, A Typography Project by Designer Sarah Lawrence
In her art-a-day project “Drawing Shit Every Day”, designer Sarah Lawrence is drawing “shit” (the word, not the thing, thankfully) in a different format each…
An Online Guide to 21 Privately Owned Public Open Space Parks in San Francisco
100 First Street Designer and writer Matthew Lew has created an online guide to 21 privately owned public open spaces (POPOS), the hard-to-find but open-to-the-public…