If the Kia Soul and EV9 had a baby, it would be the new EV3. This 169″ long electric crossover has a boxy and playful look and offers a quick-charging 58.3kWh or 81.4kWh battery. Inside, it has an uncluttered look with a multi-screen 30″ display, a slide-out console table, and seats and surfaces made from sustainable materials. Watch the premiere video here.

The Earth’s oceans are filled with harmful plastics. So, if you’re going to use a straw, make it biodegradable or reusable. All Process of World takes us inside a Korean factory to show us how they crank out millions of these eco-friendly straws every day by heating and extruding a biodegradable polymer. It’s basically one really long straw until they chop it up.

Despite its bargain price, Mossy Oak’s pocket knife is handsome, versatile, and durable. It features a stainless steel drop-point blade, along with a built-in bottle opener, glass breaker, and pocket clip. Its stonewashed finish and wooden handle scales give it a great look too.

A trailer for a new Beetlejuice and a new Beverly Hills Cop movie on the same day? It must be the 1980s again! We’re hoping Eddie Murphy and his co-stars can capture more of what made the first movie so great. Look for a blend of comedy and action as Axel F returns to the West Coast to save his daughter with the help of a new partner and some old friends.

We’ve seen Beetlejuice about 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every time we see it! The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s macabre masterpiece re-releases Michael Keaton’s evil genie from his model. Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara are back and joined by Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, Arthur Conti, and Willem Dafoe.

Tommy Owens makes these classically shaped sunglasses with a modern twist. Their outer layers are made from natural hardwood with a layer of durable carbon fiber sandwiched in the center. For added flair, they have a Vans-inspired checkerboard pattern on the ends of their temples. Available in zebrawood or ebony.

While it shares a name with Chevy’s most popular pickup, the Silverado EV is a totally different vehicle. Riding on GM’s Ultium electric platform, the top-of-the-line RST First Edition is one of the most versatile trucks we’ve ever driven. It offers exceptional driving range, carries larger items than most pickups, and can even power your home in an emergency.

Artist Uri Tuchman had a wacky idea – to make a metal gear with teeth shaped like little pigeons. After cutting dozens of tiny birds using a pantograph for tracing, he cut a matching gear and assembled them with a pendulum and other parts to create an analog “clock” mechanism. It doesn’t accurately tell time, but it’s a cool piece of kinetic art.

Kosmik combines a web browser with an infinite canvas where you can drag and drop images and text from websites as well as PDF files. It automatically tags the images you drag with the site where they came from. It’s a great way to start researching, get inspired, or just make sure you don’t forget that cool thing that you saw just on The Awesomer.

Have you ever wondered what goes on inside your freezer’s ice machine when it’s making all those clacking noises? Instagrammer povsadventures used his Insta360 GO 3 camera to capture the mechanism in action as it detects when the door is closed, fills the tray with water, checks the temperature, and then dumps ice cubes into the bin.

Here’s another great way to carry your everyday gear from the fine folks at Viperade. The black and grey pouch has a wear-resistant 500D polyester shell and three softly-lined slots for knives, flashlights, pens, or other small tools. Its back pocket holds a Field Notes journal, passport, or phone. Attach it to your belt or hang it from a lanyard.

WeArtDoing’s Liquid Modernity Series distorts iconic pop culture characters as if they were made of a viscous fluid. Their Dark Lord and Soldier sculptures are take-offs on Darth Vader and the Empire’s Stormtroopers. The resin figures come in two sizes and various color schemes, our favorite being the sparkly Dark Lord Nebula and Liquid Silver Soldier.

Duct tape is an incredibly useful and versatile tool for repairs. Engineer Guy Bill Hammack provides a scientific explanation of what makes it so strong, examining its three main components and how the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You’ll also learn about the complexities of developing adhesives for different uses.

Is your day going too well? Let YouTuber Clumsy Jackdaw turn things upside down. They made A Very Normal Captcha Game, a web-based game that asks you to solve increasingly silly and frustrating captchas. If you managed to complete the game, check out Clumsy Jackdaw’s making-of video, subscribe, and then unsubscribe. That’ll show ’em.

This custom build from Brick Machines combines two of our favorite pastimes – LEGO and candy. Built primarily from LEGO Technic and Mindstorms parts, the tabletop factory includes a mechanical candy hopper, an optical color sorter, a conveyor belt, color-matched lights, and an elevator to keep the sweet treats flowing in an endless loop.

This long-nosed NERF blaster uses a pump-action mechanism to fire five soft gel rounds at a time. Its hopper holds up to 800 rounds, which you saturate with water so they burst when they hit a target. No batteries are required, and you don’t have to worry about electronics getting wet. Includes 10,000 NERF Pro Gelfire rounds plus eye protection.

Kurzgesagt recaps some of the scientific speculations about black holes. They then explore a few thought experiments about these mysterious cosmic locations, leading up to a mind-blowing possibility. If physicists are correct and a black hole creates a universe inside it, then we could be inside a black hole, that’s inside a universe, that’s inside a…

PVMs are pro-grade CRT TVs highly sought after by retro gamers today. Retroldtech’s functional miniature replicas should be just as precious within that circle. These have IPS LCD screens, but the detail on their housing is impeccable. They have HDMI, VGA, and AV inputs. The Mini PVM has a 5″ display, while the Micro PVM has a 3.5″ display. Unfortunately, they’re already sold out.

Add to your collection of amber-colored Ultem gear with this unique fidget toy from Pacific Sons. The durable, lightweight polymer is wrapped around a metal ring with bumps on it, providing a delightful tactile experience as you turn it with your thumb.

Backyard fire pits are great but can blow smoke in your face. After building a smokeless fire pit a few years back, HAXMAN wanted to make a new version for his patio out of concrete. He bent sheets of XPS insulating foam to create two forms, then filled them with concrete. After building the structure, he drilled holes into a metal fire pit ring for ventilation.

Turn your space into an autocratic space station with the officially licensed Death Star Wall Panel Light from Entertainment Earth and Paladone. This half-scale replica of the hallway fixture from Star Wars’ iconic structure can light up in a static color or dynamically react to sound and music. It measures about 10″ W x 49″ H x 1″ D.

You might think that pigeons are dumb birds that poop on statues, but these avians are so much more than their “rats with wings” reputation. Ze Frank explains what pigeons are up to when they bob their heads, their mating habits, their trainability, and how they have a really good sense of direction.

Microsoft and other Windows-based laptop makers are following Apple’s lead. The Surface Laptop 7th Edition is powered by the new Snapdragon X all-in-one ARM chip. Disregard all the AI gimmicks: for now, all you have to know is that it should be just as powerful but significantly more power-efficient than laptops running Intel or AMD’s x86-based CPUs.