Nunchucks + Beer Cans = Canchucks!
Choose your weapon here
Origin of Cool: USA
Google Street View Stop-Motion Animation
This stop motion animation story was created by Tom Jenkins. His Vimeo profile describes the video:
“A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.”
“A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.”
The music is by The Cinematic Orchestra and the track is Arrival of the Birds
By Cool Connoisseur Tom Vangeneugden
“Mom, can I have hoverboard for Christmas?”
Origin of Cool: USA
Remember when Marty McFly jumps on the hoverboard in Back To The Future 2?
Well over 20 years later, boffins in the NASA labs may have made this fantasy a reality…
NASA has been interested in quantum levitation for quite a while, in making all our dreams come true. It isn’t until now that we’ve started to see such brilliant demonstrations of its possibilities. Imagine how the world will be with advances in quantum levitation.
When they have mastered the physics, we’ll be able to get one of these for Christmas:
Sent in by Cool Connoisseur Paul Frade from ‘yes, we have lions in our backyard as pets’ South Africa.
Origin of Cool: England
POV Video on Remote Control Quadcopter
This video was captured in Victoria Park in Warrington. Using a Gopro HD camera attached to a Quadcopter, Mr Ben takes the viewer on a journey that only birds would experience.
By David J Lowe
Origin of Cool: USA
The Coolest Remote Controlled Toy
When Origin of Cool first saw the Air Swimmers video (above), we were looking carefully for the strings. When we didn’t see any strings, we waited for the toys to slowly fall to earth…but they didn’t! The video made us think that this would be a great way to inject some fun into corporations. The scene where the fish comes out of the elevator is priceless!
Here’s the story from the website:
Mark Forti was like every other student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. That was until he invented the X-zylo for a marketing project. The product’s performance amazed everyone who saw it. After stumping his physics professor as to why the object flew, Mark took it to his father, William, who worked in the aerospace industry. When William’s aerodynamicist friends could not explain how it flew so far, William and Mark filed for patents and formed the William Mark Corporation.
Origin of Cool sees these toys creeping into the events industry. Imagine sports teams designing mascots to float around a stadium before a game. You could even have mini blimps with sponsors on the side and a countdown to kick-off clock embedded.
Giant Yellow Rabbit Spotted in Sweden
Origin of Cool: Sweden
“Big Yellow Rabbit” is a 42 foot tall sculpture of a child’s stuffed rabbit by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. It has been installed in a square in Örebro, Sweden. Covered in yellow wooden shingles, the sculpture is on display as part of the 2011 Örebro OpenART Festival.
photo by Lasse Person
photos by Florentijn Hofman
via designboom and Laughing Squid
