This is a video of maker of marginally useful things Uri Tuchman constructing an auto-deploying tape measure. That’s neat. What would be even neater is if it were a voice-activated SMART tape measure. “Tape measure, give me 4-feet 5-inches!” Yeah…that would really be something.

This is a video documenting Youtuber HeroTech’s effort to build a realistic lightsaber replica capable of extending and retracting with the push of a button (pervious iteration HERE), and fitting everything inside a Graflex 1:1 scale hilt. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. The blade even spins while extended to give it that realistic

This is a video following LEGO builder Grant Davis’s quest to construct a working mechanical version of the bouncing DVD logo screensaver using LEGO. And what a quest it is! If somebody asked me if you could make a working DVD logo screensaver out of LEGO I would have told

This is a video documenting Youtuber Jake Carlini’s quest to build a wearable electric motorcycle. The finished product, which is only seen in the last 30-seconds of the 22-minute video (hint hint), actually appears more functional than I expected. It does involve the rider having to hold a plank pose

Carefully crafted by artist Nanako Kume, ‘Sharpener’ is a series of lampshades made from the shavings of massive colored pencils cut with a giant pencil sharpener. The colored pencils aren’t actually functional colored pencils (there’s no colored pigment in the middle), just hexagonal logs with a painted exterior. Per Nanako,

Because hiding in plain sight is the best place to hide besides completely out of sight and ideally in another state or country, Youtuber Prestongoes built a drivable camper in the form of a convincing trash-filled blue dumpster. The unit includes motorized wheels, A/C, and a security system of hidden

This is a fascinating (at least to me, but I’m simple and love candy) look at how Netherlands based Rocks & Rolls Candy makes hard candy with an image of a tiny bee in the center. SPOILER: By making it very large first then stretching that rope until it’s small.

Inspired by Homer Simpson’s love of the most important food group, this is a hole-filled Les Paul style electric guitar painstakingly crafted by Artem Mayer of Copper Guitars to look like it was made from glazed donuts. It’s not actually made of donuts though (this is going to be a