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Pen Spinners Put on a Light Show With Glowing LED Pens
Taiwanese production company Kuma Films (previously) takes another crack at the contact juggling art of pen spinning, adding glowing LED pens to the equation for…
‘Guinness World Records’ Reflects on 60 Years of Celebrating the World’s Shortest People
Guinness World Records continues its 60th year celebration with a tribute to its long history of cataloging the World’s Shortest Man and World’s Shortest Woman.…
An Honest Trailer for Naughty Dog’s Post-Apocalyptic Survival Video Game ‘The Last of Us’
Voice actor Jon Bailey of Screen Junkies and Smosh have joined forces to create an honest video game trailer for The Last of Us, the…
A Comedy Sketch Offers Tips for Avoiding Charity Workers on the Street
A comedy sketch by Offkey World offers tips for avoiding charity workers on the street. Some are simple like just ignoring them, while others are…
A Modern Style ‘James Bond’ Trailer Made Using Classic ‘007’ Movie Clips That Recaps the Evil History of SPECTRE
In celebration of the newly announced 24th James Bond film SPECTRE releasing in 2015, video editor Brad Hansen of Visual Spice Productions created a modern…
World Record for Most Hot Air Balloons in Flight Broken as 408 Balloons Take to the Sky at Once
408 pilots from 67 different countries broke the Guinness World Record for “Greatest Mass Hot Air Balloon Ascent” as they took the the skies above…
Kevin Kelly Talks About the Tools Everyone Should Own on Adam Savage’s Podcast
Wired and Whole Earth Review editor Kevin Kelly recently joined the Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project podcast to discuss his current passion project, Cool…
President Barack Obama Appears on ‘The Colbert Report’ to Discuss the Affordable Care Act and His Presidency
President Barack Obama appeared on a recent episode of the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report where he stood in for host Stephen Colbert for the…
Bill Gates Lists the Best Books He Read in 2014
Technology innovator and philanthropist Bill Gates is ending the year by compiling a list of the top books he read in 2014. Not all were…
‘The Landing’, A Short Sci-Fi Film About a Mysterious Crash Landing on a Midwestern Farm in 1960
“The Landing” is a short sci-fi period film by Australian filmmaker Josh Tanner that follows a man’s attempt to uncover the events of a night…