I was just thinking the other day how badly my car was missing a wagging tail. Well prayers do get answered, folks — prayers do get answered. Granted not my prayers because I didn’t pray for a waving tail car accessory, I only thought about it. I save my prayers

This is a well-made edit from Youtuber Your_kryptonite7 (my 7th kryptonite is sugary cereal) featuring Ace Venture invading Middle-Earth. It was a fun watch, and there’s little doubt in my mind that Ace would just walk right into Mordor. Some lucky orcs eating good tonight! Me? I had four bowls

This is a video of Unitree’s $650,000 GD01, a giant 1/2 ton humanoid mecha a person can ride inside. It can either walk upright bipedal human style, or transform and walk on all fours like a terrifying robotic animal. The sound of it clanking down the street — that was

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