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A Pull-Tab Flip Chart of Song Lyrics As They Might Be Misheard by Someone Who’s Hungry While at a Club
Artist and comedienne Bec Hill (previously) created a hilarious flip chart with pull-tab illustrations of foods from deliberately mininterpreted lyrics in songs to specifically promote…
Floating an Iron Anvil in a Tub Full of Liquid Mercury
CodyDon Reeder carefully filled a tub full of mercury and then set a heavy iron anvil on top. Despite the anvil’s substantial weight, it floated…
Trained Cats Competitively Ring a Bell for Treats
A couple of very clever cats named Kisrita and Velvet (previously) learned a long time ago that they would get treats whenever they rang a…
An Amazing Bloody, Beating ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ Cake
A Valentine's Day cake featuring a bloody, beating heart that pops up from the text of the Edgar Allen Poe short story "The Tell-Tale Heart".
A Frighteningly Realistic Deepfake That Inserts Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. Into ‘Back to the Future’
Video editor ezryderx47 has made a frighteningly realistic deepfake video that replaces actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in their respective roles as Marty…
Professor Hacks His Arm Prosthesis to Plug Into a Synthesizer to Control the Music Using His Thoughts
Bertolt Meyer, a German psychology professor who was born without a left arm, very cleverly created a specialized converter called the “Synlimb”, with the help…
Respirator Masks Custom Printed With the User’s Face to Work With Facial Recognition Software
Danielle Baskin, a designer in San Francisco who “makes trendy dystopian products”, has created a line unique N95 respiratory masks that work with facial recognition…
Wonderfully Realistic Papier-Mâché Animal Masks
Artist Liz Sexton creates wonderfully bold, realistic animal masks out of hand-molded papier mâché. These playful masks feature fauna from both earth and sea and…
A Sparkling Cylindrical Robotic Clock Made With Sequined Cloth That Continuously Rewrites the Time
The Sequino by architect ekaggrat singh kalsi is a cylindrical robotic clock that uses a short pen to control the movement of sequined material to…
A Hilariously Deadpan Web Series Featuring Single Shot Episodes Without Dialogue or Camera Moves
Filmmaker Andy Lambert has created The Mute Series, a hilarious independent web series with short, single-shot episodes that feature neither dialogue nor camera movement. Each…