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Fan-Made Tesla Dealership LEGO Set Won’t Let Other LEGO Cars Use Its Superchargers

Fan-Made Tesla Dealership LEGO Set Won’t Let Other LEGO Cars Use Its Superchargers
Designed and built by LEGO (and presumably Tesla) fan Airbricks95, this Tesla dealership model is currently looking for builder support on the LEGO Ideas website. The set includes a Tesla dealership building with a showroom and service center, three charging stations, and four vehicles: a Model Y, two Model S, and a Cybertruck.

Carved Wood Odin Watch: All-Father Time

Carved Wood Odin Watch: All-Father Time
Carved from bog oak by Etsy seller Nordic Forces, this wooden watch features the likeness of the all-father Odin and his watchful ravens. The watch costs around $350 and can be customized with additional engraving or other requests.

Camera-Shy Hoodie Blinds Infrared Cameras with Strobing LEDs

Camera-Shy Hoodie Blinds Infrared Cameras with Strobing LEDs
The Camera-Shy hoodie is a piece of anti-surveillance wear created by Mac Pierce that prevents a wearer’s identification from being captured by infrared cameras. It does this by strobing the cameras with 12 ultra-bright infrared LEDs.

Take a Bite Out of This Giant 1.25 Pound Gummy Watermelon Slice

Take a Bite Out of This Giant 1.25 Pound Gummy Watermelon Slice
Because you can never have too many ants at a picnic, this Gummy Watermelon Slice from Vat19 is a solid 1.25 pounds of coagulated corn syrup and gelatin. Yum! The slice measures approximately 10″ x 5″ x 1.5″ and features watermelon-flavored flesh, grape-flavored seeds, and a green apple-flavored rind.

Wehead Is a Futuristic Robotic Head Display for Teleconferencing

Wehead Is a Futuristic Robotic Head Display for Teleconferencing
Have you ever felt like Zoom calls weren’t weirdly futuristic enough? Well, to help fill that gap comes the $1,999 Wehead, a full-size head-shaped display that brings a caller into the room with the ability to look around, following their own head movements and displaying their face on its screens in real-time.

This Synthetic Hand Has Humanoid Muscle Fibers

This Synthetic Hand Has Humanoid Muscle Fibers
Seen here about to lose at rock-paper-scissors (I’m choosing rock), Clone Robotics’ Synthetic Hand v18 is the latest and greatest version of a humanoid hand created by the company. This 1:1 scale iteration of a human hand features artificial muscle fibers and custom valves that allow it to move eerily like the real thing.

Copycats Famous Paint Cat Scratchers: Fine Feline Art

Copycats Famous Paint Cat Scratchers: Fine Feline Art
Created by luxury pet goods designer Lord Lou of Amsterdam, Copycat Art Scratchers are cat scratching boards that look like famous paintings. Specifically, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Xbox x Lucasfilm Giving Away Mandalorian Game Consoles and a Giant Pram Entertainment Center

Xbox x Lucasfilm Giving Away Mandalorian Game Consoles and a Giant Pram Entertainment Center
To latch onto the release of The Mandalorian season 3 (despite not particularly having anything to do with the franchise), Xbox has teamed up with Lucasfilm to give away some custom Mandalorian and Grogu-themed Series S and X consoles, as well as a Grogu controller, complete with hoodie.

Skull and Sword Toilet Bowl Brush and Toilet Paper Holders: For Bathroom Dueling

Skull and Sword Toilet Bowl Brush and Toilet Paper Holders: For Bathroom Dueling
Because whose guest bathroom doesn’t have a medieval or pirate theme that demands more skulls and sword decorations, Brazilian luxury bathroom accessory designer Vallvé has created a line of just that. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I’m thinking the exact same thing: “Finally!”

Unopened First-gen iPhone Sells for $63,000 at Auction

Unopened First-gen iPhone Sells for $63,000 at Auction
Making me seriously regret not stockpiling them when they came out and storing them in the basement for the past 15 years; a first-generation iPhone (Model A1203) recently sold at auction for a staggering $63,356.40. That’s a 10,500% increase.

DNA Double Helix Plant Trellis: Green Thumb Genes

DNA Double Helix Plant Trellis: Green Thumb Genes
Inspired by the double helix shape of the DNA responsible for all living organisms, this is the the DNA Trellis from Etsy shop ThePlantyPrint. It features a strand of 3D-printed deoxyribonucleic acid designed to keep your climbing plants climbing upward instead of just falling over.

Gearshift Hoodies Help Warm Up Your Transmission

Gearshift Hoodies Help Warm Up Your Transmission
Sure to be this spring’s must-have car fashion accessory (don’t quote me on that), these handmade fleece gearshift hoodies from Etsy shop ShotStarPro make it appear your shift lever wants to prevent a cold start in style. 

Watch a Robot Clean an Entire Bathroom Itself

Watch a Robot Clean an Entire Bathroom Itself
Created by SOMATIC, this commercial bathroom cleaning robot is capable of spraying and disinfecting all bathroom surfaces using an on-board industrial robotic arm. After spraying surfaces (e.g. mirrors, sinks, urinals and commodes), it then blasts them with an air jet to dry them.

The World’s Smallest Video Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Sand

The World’s Smallest Video Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Sand
Developed with technology created by researchers at the University of Washington and manufactured by OmniVision Technologies, the OmniVision OV6948 has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s smallest commercially available image sensor.

Building the World’s Biggest Laptop with a 43″ Screen

Building the World’s Biggest Laptop with a 43″ Screen
Because some people firmly believe that bigger is better, self-proclaimed “not experts,” Evan and Katelyn set out to build the world’s largest laptop, a 100-pound behemoth with a 43″ screen. The unit features an oversized keyboard and, just like an actual laptop, can run on batteries.

New Robotic Gas Pump Fuels Your Car for You

New Robotic Gas Pump Fuels Your Car for You
This new gasoline fueling system was developed by Autofuel. It’s powered by an industrial robotic arm and is capable of filling a customer’s gas tank without the motorist ever needing to leave the comfort of the driver’s seat.