Chip Sandalwood
15-Year-Old Girl Is the Youngest Person to Get a Bionic Hand [VIDEO]
12 years after losing her fingers as a result of sepsis brought on by chicken pox, 15-year-old Chloe Holmes has become the youngest person in Europe (and the first outside of America) to be fitted with bionic fingers.
Awkward! Lonely Penguin Gets Left Behind by Penguin Friends [VIDEO]
Anyone who’s seen ‘March of The Penguins’ knows how lonely being a penguin can be. The frigid winters. The vast and icy emptiness of the Arctic.
Still, you wouldn’t necessarily think any of that trademark penguin loneliness carried over to life at the zoo. Not so. Just look at this video taken at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork, Ireland. While all the other penguins scurry off to greet the approac
Dog Goes Crazy Over Hedgehog [VIDEO]
Is that a hedgehog on the floor or are you just happy to see us? This dog is so excited and/or anxious about the prickly brown pile on the floor that he’s decided to skip today’s walk and just run in place.
In reality, we think he’s probably trying to dig a hole so he can expose the hedgehog’s soft, defenseless underside but that’s not nearly as cute to think about. Thank goodness for laminate
Dancing Snail Likes to Move It, Move It [VIDEO]
Snails may have plenty of junk in the trunk but when it comes to shaking what God gave them, it’s all in the antennae. And boy did God give this dancing snail a sweet pair of those.
Check him out as be bobs his antennae to the beat of Reel 2 Real’s classic hit ‘I Like to Move It.’
Are You Ready For an Ambush Pillow Fight? [VIDEO]
Grown men like a good pillow fight as much as anyone else. The only problem is, it can be a bit awkward to try to schedule a slumber party with your bros. Enter: The ambush pillow fight.
Boy Runs in Front of Train, Makes It Out Alive in Harrowing Split-Second [VIDEO]
Filmed in Mawson Lakes, South Australia on CCTV, this harrowing footage shows a teenage boy brazenly crossing a track in front of an oncoming train and avoiding death by the narrowest of margins.
Tortoise Races Old Man in Motorized Wheelchair [VIDEO]
The tortoise may be able to outrun the hare but he’s no match for the motorized wheelchair. Cruiser, a wily desert tortoise, is a fierce competitor, but an elderly, wheelchair-bound gentleman named Josef wins by a nose.
TRON Guy Recreates Film’s Racing Scene With Duct Tape [VIDEO]
TRON Guy Jay Maynard is back and this time he’s got a little bit of corporate and creative muscle behind him. Created by San Francisco based agency Ryactive for Duck Brand duct tape, ‘Duck TRON’ is a colorful, duct tape send-up of the sci-fi flick’s famous racing sequences. And who’s the ‘user’ behind the races? Maynard, of course.
The video, which went live less than a week ago, has already ra
Firefighter Races – Hot New Sport? [VIDEOS]
Firefighting isn’t just a job — it’s also a sport. Firematic Racing involves firefighters competing against the clock to complete tasks like assembling and climbing a ladder or fitting and shooting a hose. Though the sport is most popular in New York, its reach extends across the pond to Europe, too.
Actors in Movies Say the Names of the Movies They’re in (Again) [VIDEO]
YouTuber Honsco‘s first supercut of movie characters saying the name of the movie they’re appearing in (like when Christopher Lloyd actually says “back to the future” in, of course, ‘Back to the Future’) garnered more than a half-million views and now he’s back with a sequel. Posted this morning, ‘Movie Titles in Movies: Part Deux’ features 110 Titles in 159 Seconds, from Craig Robinson saying
Burger King Kills Its King
Burger democratists, rejoice: As of this weekend, the creepy Burger King mascot, “the King,” is officially dead.
Concurrent with the release of the guacamole topped California Whopper, Burger King’s new advertising agency of record McGarryBowen has dethroned the edgy monarch in favor of an approach based on health and freshness.
Underwater Hockey Gaining Popularity [VIDEO]
Created by British SCUBA instructors in 1954 as a training exercise for swimming with fins, underwater hockey (also called “Octopush”) is an aquatic team sport that resembles knock hockey, only on a much larger, much wetter scale. Though the paddle and puck are similar to those used in the table game, underwater hockey is a far more physical game.