Using “historical studies, youth polls, cultural trends, and modern surveys,” this is a visualization of what kids want to be when they grow up, detailing the changing dream jobs of children aged 8 – 12 from 1920 to 2026. In 1983 children stopped wanting to be president, and ninja took
Recently a number of driverless Waymo Jaguar I-PACE taxis have been swarming an Atlanta suburb due to a misrouting issue. Then, when residents put up a ‘SLOW, CHILDREN PLAYING’ sign to prevent more from entering, all the Waymos panicked and created a traffic jam. Waymo claims they’ve seen fixed the
This is a video of musician Smooth McGroove performing a multi-track acapella cover of the ‘Float Islands’ theme from Kirby’s Dream Land on Game Boy. It’s a tasty jam, and he does a great job. Personally, I never had Kirby’s Dream Land on Game Boy. Pretty sure I only had
This is a video demonstration of the Heimplanet Kirra inflatable tent. The unit costs $1,055 *chokes on instant coffee* and comes preassembled so all you have to dohttps://boingboing.net/2026/05/13/this-inflatable-tent-is-a-campers-dream-come-true.html. It takes about 25 seconds to inflate the tent’s air bladders, which replace a traditional tent’s poles. Plus it has sealable valves
This is a video of Youtuber Strange Inventions building a clock that tells time with vials of colored water (I would have gone with an even darker color). Every minute the vials rotate and dump their contents, and the vials required to tell the next minute’s time are refilled via
This is a video of two Figure humanoid F.03 robots (who look suspiciously like people wearing robot costumes) tidying a bedroom and making the bed. And all in under two minutes! Granted, the tidying consists entirely of closing a laptop and hanging a pair of headphones on a stand, so
LEGO Icons set #11380, appropriately titled Road Bike, is a 1,015 piece build kit that, if assembled without accidentally breaking it into 1,015 pieces, produces a 23.5″ long, 14″ tall road bike. It includes rubber wheels, a chain-driven back wheel that turns when the pedals are pedaled, and a water
The delectable brainchild of Florida-based poke bowl, hot dog, and sweet treat purveyor Pacific Counter as an April Fools joke, the aloha whipdog is a wiener standing in a cone swirled with pineapple soft serve. I can only assume so many people demanded it be real that it’s on the
