“Light pillars scrape the night sky over Alaska. It may look as if an alien invasion force is beaming down to overrun our little planet but, in fact, this is a purely natural phenomenon. Light and water is all that is needed to produce this remarkable special effect… The light pillar looks like a thin column that extends vertically above and/or below the source of light and does indeed give us the impression of some sort of transportation beam coming in to effect, particularly when it is at night and the phenomenon is caused by artificial light.” w/ photos

“Pastry artist by day, Star Wars fan by night, Jenn Hall decided that if she was ever going to make an R2-D2 cake, it might come out in the shape of a helmet. But instead of baking said cake, she cooked up this most-excellent bike helmet in the likeness of R2-D2.” w/ photos

“Captain Picard, bagpipe wizard.” — Jellophono

“What is this? The Sims: car park?” — chiijo

“Like a motherf’ing boss!”

“Meanwhile, there’s starving clay figures in Africa.” — Jason

“This interactive hand sculpture has sort of a steampunk vibe to it, with its structure and mechanical parts made from brass, along with wood accents and the articulating hand itself made from resin. It kind of reminds me of Thing from The Addams Family, but it’s just a cool mechanical hand that taps impatiently as you turn its hand-crank.” w/ photos + video

“Short demonstration of the fun of eating with the Original Pasta Fork. Sliding fingers down the long spiral handle makes it rotate around the center prong of the fork, thus winding the spaghetti onto the fork.”

“The animation was done in After Effects, but it still took a lot of work… I think it would have been faster if I did it by hand.” — jeremiahjw

“Emotigraph is a laser-cut wooden plaything with a mechanism which lets you change its face between a variety of moods. Simply turn the disc underneath Emotigraph, and it’ll go from elated, to depressed, to non-plussed in seconds (just like you.) The exact expressions on the included disc are ‘happy,’ ‘angry,’ ‘sad,’ and ‘surprised.’ However, additional discs can be purchased for moods like ‘bashful,’ ‘sorry,’ ‘whisper,’ and ‘maybe.’ The interchangeable discs are why its called the Emotigraph (‘emotion phonograph’, get it?)” w/ photos