A partnership between Anchorage Solid Waste Services and the Alaska Zoo, this is a video of a group of Kodiak bears testing the bear-resistance of a new trash can. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the cans stand little chance against the massive 700+ pound bears. These aren’t those bears in the commercials that

This is a video of musician Ichika Nito performing his own uptempo arrangement of Beethoven’s Für Elise on guitar with a drum and bass backing that turns the song into a speedy club track. I remember in high school my music teacher actually tried to convince us Für Elise meant

The Luft Balloon Clock is a wall clock (also includes a desk stand) that looks like a transparent mylar balloon. Available from Lox in orange and beige for $146 apiece, the clocks measure approximately 13″ round and operate on a single AA battery. Me? I operate on veins full of

Designed and sold by UK-based novelty footwear maker Irregular Choice, these are the $239 Roll The Dice high heels. In case you couldn’t tell, they’re Monopoly themed. I’m kidding, even people who have never heard of the game could tell you they’re Monopoly themed. It’s…hard to miss. Does anybody really

This is a video of Seattle based artist Rudy Willingham placing stickers of Simpsons characters around his neighborhood (Burger King appears to have been a goldmine of content) in places that are contextually appropriate for the characters’ faces or whatever they’re doing. That’s clever. I especially liked the one of

The Guinness World Record for largest display of carved eggs was recently awarded to Chinese artist Ma Chao for the 1,040 intricately carved eggshells he’s produced. The eggs feature characters from the 1986 television series Journey To The West (adapted from Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel of the same name), and

Previously seen letting mushrooms play a keyboard, Youtuber BionicandtheWires is back with another video, this time allowing a colony of oyster mushrooms to paint a picture. The mushrooms’ natural fluctuations in electrical activity is transformed into brush movement via attached solenoids. That painting, wow — way better than anything my

Because what good will future robots be if we can’t ride them into battle against other robots, Kawasaki has released a video of its conceptual hydrogen-electric CORLEO. CORLEO is a large quadruped robot that could be ridden by one or two people like a giant dire wolf. It looks like