Developed by Shinichi Furuya and associates at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo, this exoskeletal hand was originally designed to help train the muscles of those with limited use of their digits. Well now they’ve discovered it can also help take accomplished pianists to the next level. Heck yeah,

This is a video of pet octopus Marty (who I believe is an Octopus bimaculatus, aka Verrill’s two-spot octopus) opening a closed jar just moments after being exposed to one for the first time. That’s impressive. How we knew to turn it is beyond me, and certainly beyond my roommate,

This is a video of luthier Burls Art making two electric guitars with thin layers of translucent slate, complete with backlit tops so light filters through the stone from behind. That’s beautiful. Too beautiful to smash on stage at the end of a concert? Considering all the time and energy

This is a clip of video creator voicesbyjake (aka Jake Fisher) wetting his long hair then laying on a table with his head hanging over the edge so it freezes standing straight up (or straight down while he’s laying there) in the -20°F (-29°C) temperatures of a Minnesota winter. Does

And possibly didn’t need to see. Personally, I’m into it. The only thing that bothered me is Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael have their belts mixed up. I mean it makes sense Donatello got his right since he’s the brains of the operation, he could have straightened his brothers out though.

This is a video of a sweatered, pleasantly smiling gentleman displaying his skills with a metal bo staff. He starts off super slow to demonstrate the hand movements he makes to control the staff before going buck wild and spinning that thing like a pinwheel in a tornado. Honestly, that

This is a video from Youtuber and obviously fun guy BionicandtheWires, who hooked up some sensors to a growing oyster mushroom colony to detect fluctuations in electrical activity, which are converted to signals that activate the mushroom’s solenoid-powered bionic arms and play a keyboard. It sounds just as trippy as

To celebrate National Soup Month (yay?), General Mills is releasing limited edition Progresso Soup Drops hard candy every Thursday in January at 9:00AM EST at ProgressoSoupDrops.com. I’ve already trained my bots for the next release. When you’re sick, nothing is truly more reassuring than Chicken Noodle Soup. So, we thought,