Refusing to be drawn into their fray by Oxford’s choice of ‘rage bait’ for word of the year, Merriam-Webster has just announced their own word of the year: slop. I wold have gone with sloppy, but that was pretty much 2025 in a nutshell. We define slop as “digital content

This is a video of Red Bull mountain biker Matt Jones jumping his ride through the open rears of two autonomous Scania semi trucks traveling in opposite directions. It’s a tight window (less than a second), but after lots of planning and practice, he successfully makes the jump. That’s cool,

Inspired by bare bear feet, these Bear Claw Mules from Bravest Studios are $115 faux fur mules with real steel claws, perfect for destroying the legs of your favorite furniture. Now I know what you’re wondering — but are they also available in white, grey, black, purple, green, blue, orange,

Developed by researchers at the Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia along with researchers from Centro E. Piaggio at the University of Pisa (teamwork!), the SoftFoot Pro is a flexible artificial foot designed to mimic a human foot in order to adapt to the terrain it’s standing on. And it requires no

This is the Salami Advent Calendar sold by Polish grocery store Podnikovka. What makes it different from a regular stick of salami? Its wrapper is marked with the days of Advent! And that’s all, you just cut off a portion and eat it everyday. Unfortunately, the flavor doesn’t change as

This is a video from photographer Vadim Makhorov, who used a drone to capture footage of a group of polar bears who have claimed the abandoned weather station on Koluchin Island (located in Russia’s remote Chukotka region) as their own. I say let them have it! Apparently the weather is

Allegedly inspired by little handheld foam disc launching pistols and not the saw-blade guns from video games (do you even game, bro?), this is a video of Youtuber Current Concept building a saw blade launcher. Unfortunately for a nit-picking complainer like me, it launches the blades straight using flywheels without

This is a video of acrobatic conceptor Dave Locke kicking swords at a dummy strapped to a wheel of death (at least I hope it’s a dummy). I couldn’t tell if Dave was trying to hit the dummy, or just hit around it. Because he only succeeds in hitting around