The Beatles: some people love them, some people hate them, and some people are indifferent to their music. Me? I’ve never heard of them until now. But Youtuber Broccaloo has used OpenAI’s Jukebox, a “neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres
- January 13, 2021
Can you never decide what to eat? You sound like my girlfriend. Enter the dishwasher safe Panwaffle ($20 on Amazon), a waffle/pancake iron that makes a waffle in the center of a pancake, for the best of both worlds. Of course as soon as I’ve got the batter mixed and
- January 13, 2021
Remember the post from two days ago of the entire interior of a room being painted with Musou black, the world’s darkest commercially available paint, absorbing 99.4% of light that hits it? I certainly hope you remember, otherwise we might have a The Notebook situation on our hands. I would
- January 13, 2021
There are few things in life more satisfying than a job well done. Besides a Snickers. Actually besides most junk food. And days off. And sleeping in. And naps. Now that I think about there are actually quite a few things in life more satisfying than a job well done.
- January 13, 2021
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and that will led environmentalist Taylor Mali to develop the Snatchelator, a 28-foot telescoping paint roller modified with some gnarly looking bent metal braces that’s proven very successful at removing plastic bags from trees in his Carroll Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn. Some more
- January 13, 2021
This is the very real and very available on Amazon FartVac, a $12 hose and bulb vacuum with an activated carbon filter at the end designed to suck up farts from your pants before filtering the smell out of them and releasing them back into the wild. Now I know
- January 13, 2021
Since you don’t know until you shoot it, this is a video from the guys at Demolition Ranch blasting a giant crystal (actually glass) ball with a 50-caliber round to see what sort of damage it will do. Prior to that they pump another giant glass ball full of various
- January 13, 2021
Because everybody needs a hobby, and some of those hobbies are a little more…eccentric than others, this is a video from insect enthusiast and one of the UK’s largest breeders (of insects) Adrian Kozakiewicz of some of his praying mantis species hanging out in a miniature living room watching/attacking butterflies
- January 13, 2021
Jonathan Lawton is a man. A man with a model train, a GoPro, and a cat named Mittens. And what do you get when you combine those four things? “That’s three things.” I was including Jonathan. And the answer is this video. You know, I’ve always wanted a model railway
- January 12, 2021
This is a video of magician and puzzle solver Chris Ramsay solving a $30,000 puzzle box created by Paris-based maker of puzzle boxes, “connected objects and mechanical mechanisms,” augmented reality, and escape rooms Labsterium. The box has all sorts of different puzzles that all have to be solved to reveal
- January 12, 2021















