This is the $120 Aberlite Pro Professional Beard and Hair Straightener, what’s being advertised as the world’s first professional beard straightener. *checking cobwebs in wallet* Cool, cool, but what if I told you I’ll have to take my chances with an unprofessional beard straightener? The Aberlite Pro uses a comb
- October 19, 2020
These are the Bat Masks developed and sold by fashion brand Mantrap 1989 by Heathyr Lawrence. The look like bats and are hand-sewn from four panels of 100% cotton sheeting for an authentic bat look. Unfortunately for anybody who hasn’t already made a small fortune selling potions in the swamp,
- October 19, 2020
This is a video of a trained vulture landing on the selfie stick of paragliding instructor Scott Mason while parahawking (a discipline he developed back in 2001), a real activity that exists combining paragliding and falconry, in which a trained bird of prey leads a paraglider to thermal updraft columns
- October 19, 2020
To celebrate (read: promote) the release of The Mandalorian season two, this is a timelapse video of three LEGO master builders constructing a full-scale baby Yoda out of 14,588 bricks over the course of 119 hours. *spit-takes all the LEGO pieces I had in my mouth* 119 hours?! Did they
- October 19, 2020
This is a video of a very good boy singing the intro to Star Trek: Discovery. I was skeptical he was actually going to sing anything at first, but by the end I was a believer. He was really just waiting for the beat drop. *donning fishnet bodysuit and faux
- October 19, 2020
This is a video of Clearwater, Florida Man Brian Edward Kahrs demonstrating the electric vehicle he built out of a mop bucket on a skateboard, powered by a leaf blower blown into an umbrella sail. Oh, Florida Man. Florida Man, Florida Man, Florida Man. I’m not going to lie, I’m
- October 19, 2020
This is a video of Youtuber Equalo’s quest to run Doom on a Raspberry Pi powered entirely by potatoes. He fails (the Raspberry Pi needed more amperage than the potatoes produced), but then he uses his giant 700-piece rotting potato battery to successfully run the game on a TI-84 graphing
- October 17, 2020
This is a video of thereminist Carolina Eyck performing a very spirited rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’ on her instrument. The electronic sound of the theremin actually works surprisingly well with the piece, and I closed my eyes and could almost see the bumblebee flying. Then opened
- October 17, 2020













