After performing a modified version the classic rubber hand experiment on octopuses, Japanese researchers Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda at The University of the Ryukyus have suggested octopuses may experience a sense of body ownership similar to humans. In the experiment, a partition and fake tentacle were used to cover

These are a couple videos of planet-gobbling cosmic entity Galactus strolling the floor at San Diego Comic-Con. The cosplay, constructed by the appropriately named Extreme Costumes, requires the wearer to walk on stilts. Or be 10 feet tall. The wearer actually looks through the bottom of Galactus’s neck — the

Chinese robotics manufacturer UBTECH Robotics has developed the Walker S2, the first humanoid robot capable of replacing its own battery when it senses its low or overheating, allowing for continuous 24-hour operation. I assume the Walker S1 didn’t have that capability. Obviously, we should start hoping and praying now that

This is some home security cam footage of a woman and her niece backyard camping in the bed of a truck when a local raccoon comes to pay them a visit. It sneakily plays tag with the girl’s head until she wakes up. Some more details: Niece is fine. No

This is a video demonstration of a Tamagotchi inspired virtual pet “torture chamber” created by Cornell University design students Rhea Goswami, Caroline Hohner, and Amanda Huang. It’s like a regular Tamagotchi but with physics added, so tilting the case causes your blob pet to move around and smush into the

Because what good is a car you can’t drive through doorways, these are a couple videos of a Fiat Panda that’s been trimmed to only 20″ wide. That’s wild. I imagine turning being an issue. Actually, I imagine almost everything being an issue. But the biggest issue of all? “Where

Another day, another never-before-seen video of an underwater alien (previously: a colossal squid). This time, a living specimen of a Gonatus antarcticus squid that was filmed at a depth of 7,000-feet in the Southern Ocean while shooting a video for National Geographic. The species was only previously described via dead

Because the internet, just like an unruly 3-year old, refuses to sleep when it should, this is a video from the Bell Bros of Sesame Street’s Big Bird (plus Count von Count) edited into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 avian horror film The Birds. The whole thing is set to Outkast’s 2000