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In his most recent upload, Schnooleheletteletto pushes a potted plant to the left—with varying degrees of force—3,000 times over the course of 77 minutes. This is a classic Schnoo troll, one that bears more resemblance to an art project than the sort of disingenuous mockery we usually associate the word with. All his video titles…
Pretty much any lab-based destruction of colorful clay you could ask for is covered in this video. Freezing, exploding, melting and crushing? Check. Fiery balls of molten metal and application of blow torch? Check. Combinations of the aforementioned methods? Double Check. But since this is soft clay, all of that torturous material disfiguration is actually…
A Florida man who claimed to suffer severe burns when his Galaxy Note 7 exploded in his pocket is now suing Samsung. Jonathan Strobel of Boca Raton is the first to file a lawsuit against Samsung after the company officially recalled the latest addition to the Note series on Thursday. Strobel’s lawyer Keith Pierro told…
The Russian robot that gained internet infamy by “breaking out” of its lab a few months ago just can’t stay out of trouble. A new report says that Promobot was “arrested” at a political rally in Moscow. After traveling to Moscow from its home in Perm (this time accompanied by technicians), Promobot attended a rally…
Step aside lizards, looks like we have a new animal overlord. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that pigeons can be trained to understand some words, sort of. Scientists trained the four smartest pigeons they could find to tell the difference between four-letter words and nonwords, and identify…
Stuntman Eddie Braun has recreated Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon rocket bike stunt in every technical way but one—Braun actually succeeded. He is the first to pull off the jump in the 42 years since Knievel’s attempt was mired by a parachute malfunction. Yesterday, at 3:54 pm, Braun hopped into a rocket that was built…
Making matches at a factory involves some staggering numbers: two million splints an hour get fed into a perforated steel plate so that they can be ready to get dipped in the red lighter material, 500 boxes of matches get made per minute to house the matches, and 200 matches are processed per second. It’s…
Every work week should end with a quick game of wall climbing Pong. That is, a game of Pong that is projected onto a rock climbing wall that tracks your body parts as paddles so that the ball reacts appropriately to each hit. It looks fun because you’re actively maneuvering your body around to smack…
Seeing a train get assembled is a lot like watching someone play with Lego bricks, only if that someone was God and the Lego bricks were stupid ginormous. This timelapse of a London Elizabeth line train being built out at Bombardier in Derby is especially cool because it seems like pieces and parts are just…
Remember when Donald Trump had that week where he went to Kinko’s and just printed off random shit he found on the internet? Well, today he continued that fabulous tradition at a rally in Miami. He entered to the theme song of Les Misérables and behind him was projected a photoshopped Les Deplorables parody. If…
NASA did not just rewrite the zodiac chart. But here’s why so many people are convinced that the agency did—and the real story behind the rumor. The story that NASA had issued a new zodiac appeared in Cosmopolitan’s UK edition yesterday, but it quickly spread, with Yahoo, AOL, and more all soon carrying stories claiming…
Dead eyes, half-smile. Inhale deeply. Let it out. It’s all going to be OK. “🙂.” My editor messaged me after I pitched him some dumb, silly, exceedingly me blog. Gentle code for “let’s pass on this one.” “🙂.” Politely softens any sort of blow. “🙂.” A modest thank you to a compliment that suggests, “I’m…
iOS 10 is here, and it brings a whole host of terrible features to iMessage. You can now send the most important people in your life bad stickers, insensitive animations, and more proof than they ever needed that you’re a total dick. In fact, the new iMessage helps you fulfill the so-called best piece of…
A cake server is the perfect tool for getting a slice of cake or pie off a serving platter, but how do you then get the dessert safely onto a plate so it’s worthy of an Instagram share? With the CakeDozer server that physically bulldozes it clean off with the push of your thumb. For…
It’s practical? No. Functional? Hardly. Do I want one? Yes, yes I do. This little Raspberry Pi Zero project from Adafruit is the world’s smallest machine running the multiple arcade machine emulator (MAME) emulator with the help of an RGB OLED display and audio amplifier. It quite literally is an arcade machine you can fit…
Ever wanted to wear a foot brace, but didn’t have an injury to justify it? Well you’re in luck. On Thursday, Teva and Ugg released a collaboration of fur-lined sandals that bear an eery resemblance to a foot brace. It’s the perfect shoe for those who love cold toes in the winter or sweaty feet…
Admit it, ever since you learned that Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons crashed on Earth, you’ve secretly always wondered what a real-life, full-sized Transformer would look like. Good news, a company in Turkey wants to sell you one. There’s a very good chance that Letvision has overestimated the demand for…
Valarie Gerbus switched carriers after she received a bill from Verizon for $9,153.46. While this is certainly an extreme case, there have been a number of FCC complaints against Verizon this week, after other customers said that their data usage skyrocketed for no obvious reason. In Gerbus’s case, her monthly bill averaged about $118 for…
Hordes of people will soon have a brand new iPhone 7 in their hands, and you know what that means: a lot of people will immediately screw it up. But while there will always be ways to completely destroy a new iPhone, Apple has designed the new device to withstand at least some physical stress.…
Tumblr—the internet’s preferred space for fandoms and emotional self-flagellation—is undergoing a particularly bizarre moderation crisis. While Facebook struggles with war photography and police brutality and Twitter makes limp attempts to boot trolls, Tumblr appears to be removing totally innocuous videos of pets and children. Sam Cornwall uses his Tumblr to upload videos of his kids.…
