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Isay Weinfeld’s Mobile Bar
Isay Weinfeld’s Mobile Bar is sort of like a rolling keg. Situated on four casters, the unit features sliding drawers and multiple cubbies for holding all your bottles ‘n booze.
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Foolin’ With an Evil Dream Woman is the Solution
It’s an epic collision of 1970s and 1980s rock sub-genres courtesy of remixer Bill McClintock. This fantastic mashup combines ELO’s “Evil Woman,” Dokken’s “Dream Warriors,” Def Leppard’s “Foolin’”, and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution” into one surprisingly seamless song. Lynyrd Skynyrd fans the flames with a little of “That Smell.”
Games
GTA IV: Coming To PC
Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to the PC on Nov. 18th in the US and Nov. 20th in Europe with “newly expanded multiplayer”, and we couldn’t be happier. Two words: Invincibility Cheat.
Tools + EDC
Mezmodrop Kinetic Desk Toy
The Mezmodrop is a desktop plaything that uses a powerful spring to launch and land a ring on its silicone-tipped rocket base. As its aluminum spindle shoots into the air, it lands back where it started. Not every landing will be successful, so they include silicone covers to keep drops silent. Its makers say they’ve
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If All the Water on Earth Disappeared
As is frequently the case with the extreme hypothetical questions answered by xkcd’s What If?, everything and everyone on Earth would perish if all the water disappeared. But what’s most fascinating about this video is what would happen to all the ships at sea and marine life the moment the water vanished.
Leisure
Pac-Man x Otomatone Melody Mini Synthesizers
Celebrate your love of retro gaming and music making with this mini version of the squeezable Otomatone synthesizer toy. They look like Pac-Man and his ghostly enemies, pre-programmed with 11 songs, the keychain-sized music makers aren’t as expressive as the big version, but they’re still adorable. A full-size Pac-Man Otomatone is also available.
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The Wavy Window Paradox
When you look at the reflections on office building windows, they often look wavy and distorted. But why is it that they don’t look this way from the inside? Henry Reich from minutephysics explores how reflected and refracted light behave differently, resulting in very different experiences depending on which side of the window you’re standing
Living
Tacray Emergency Survival Whistle
This survival whistle’s dual tubes produce a powerful 120dB sound that can cut through noise in any emergency. Crafted from titanium, it’s lightweight, rustproof, and features a unique square body that won’t roll. It comes with a stainless steel beaded chain for easy carrying on your keychain, backpack, or worn as a pendant.
Art + Design
Making a Giant Leather LEGO Minifigure
After showing off their handmade morningstar, Red Forest Leather is back with another example of their craft. Using painstakingly cut, glued, and stitched pieces of leather, they created a larger-than-life sculpture inspired by a LEGO minifig. It even has articulated body parts and two heads. You can find this and other leather sculptures for sale
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Bob Zombie: I Shot the Dead Girl
Rob Zombie meets Bob Marley in Bill McClintock’s remix of “Living Dead Girl” and “I Shot the Sheriff.” We’re thinking some sort of Caribbean zombie apocalypse, fueled by raging riffs and lawless lyrics, must have led to this situation. See if you can spot all of the musical cameos without looking at the list on
Luxury
McLaren McL 6GT
The gorgeous McL 6GT is a limited-run exotic with a carbon fiber monocoque and body, and the first McLaren to have a manual transmission since the F1. While we don’t have full specs yet, we know it’s all about purity, with a V8 engine, rear-wheel drive, and hydraulic steering. The concept is at Monterey Car
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How to Play Swordfish
TierZoo zooms in on billfish like the swordfish, marlin, and sailfish. These predators share long, spear-like bills for slashing through schools of fish and stunning prey. From struggling to survive as tiny larvae to sporting awkward teenage overbites and finally jabbing their lunch as adults, they grow into some of the most powerful fish you