A Super Mario World Guitar Is Made Out of 10k Lollipop Sticks
An avid Mario fan and music lover spent months to craft a Super Mario World guitar made out of 10,000 lollipop sticks. The sticks were individually dyed, cut, trimmed, and measured to create the Mario themed image.
Reported by Nintendo Life, YouTuber Cranmer Guitars shared his work of art on his channel, going into detail about the process of making the Super Mario World lollipop stick guitar.
As you can imagine, this was a pretty involved process and took the creator seven months in total to accomplish. In his video, the creator shares that it took around three months just to cut and shape all of the lollipop sticks into 29,000 pixels that would be used for the design.
Machine Made of LEGOs Uses Neural Networks to Sort LEGOs
LEGO enthusiast and YouTuber Daniel West has created what he believes to be the next evolution of LEGO sorting machines. His creation is the first of its kind and uses AI and Neural Networks to sort any kind LEGO brick — something that's never been done.
As spotted by Nerdist, in his video, West explains that his LEGO sorter is the third in existence, but is the latest and greatest in the line of brick sorters. While the other two machines that exist sort LEGO's into different categories, Wests' machine is the only one capable of sorting any LEGO brick in existence, as long as it has a 3D model.
Shawshank Redemption at 25: The Story Behind Andy’s Iconic Escape
As 2019 comes to a close and the awards season ramps up, expect plenty of ceremonies, from the Golden Globes to the Academy Awards, to serve up the usual share of cinematic clip reels celebrating iconic sequences from now classic films. And in particular, look out for that triumphant scene of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) standing, arms aloft in the rain, rejoicing in his prison break to freedom in The Shawshank Redemption.
The movie celebrated its 25th anniversary this past October, and audiences have consistently voted The Shawshank Redemption as one of the best films ever made in the years since its release. Directed and written by Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for seven Academy Awards back in 1995, including nods for Frank’s writing, Thomas Newman’s stirring score, and Roger Deakins’ cinematography.
The 10 Best-Reviewed Shows on Netflix in 2019
Netflix had another impressive year in terms of its original content, earning 27 Emmy wins (second behind HBO's 34 wins) and releasing critically-acclaimed new series like the genre-bending Russian Doll starring Natasha Lyonne and the epic fantasy tale The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Netflix also scored high in IGN's State of Streaming series for its diverse lineup of shows and easy-to-use UI.
IGN UK Podcast: Christmas Quiz Special 2019
Merry Christmas! Joe, Dale and Cardy are here to fill your day with even more joy by playing a few Endless Search games with you. So huddle round the fireplace, grab a bottle of mulled wine and enjoy!
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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary Answers Major Plot Holes
While there is a ton to take in while watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, there is even more to learn in the official Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary -- and a lot of information that answers some Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker plot holes.
SPOILERS AHEAD for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. For more on Rise of Skywalker, check out lightsaber color meanings explained and the Rise of Skywalker ending explained.
Scientists Can Now Make Synthetic Spider Web Silk
Move over, Spider-Man, your web-shooters may not be the only ones on the block anymore. Scientists have finally cracked the code on developing synthetic spider silk by modifying bacteria.
As reported by ScienceNews, it notes that "Engineers have tried for decades to create a synthetic mimic from genetically modified bacteria, yeast, and even goat milk, but have always fallen short." But, this time, scientists have modified strand of E. coli bacteria and were successful, resulting in a material that is virtually identical to its natural counterpart.
“We can now use bacteria to produce something as good as nature,” says synthetic biologist Fuzhong Zhang of Washington University in St. Louis during an annual meeting for the American Chemical Society.
The 14 Best-Reviewed TV Shows of 2019
With more original scripted TV shows being released than there are days of the year, chances are you -- like us -- are using the holidays to catch up on hidden gems you may have missed. There are so many different ways to categorize what makes great TV: it could be a recommendation from a trusted friend, buzz around a major title or even the suggestion of a media outlet you like and respect.
In the spirit of the latter category, we have gathered up the 14 best-reviewed scripted TV shows of the year according to review aggregate website Metacritic. These series met universal acclaim from the critics who reviewed them, ranging from long-running series like Veep and Billions to newcomers like Undone and Back to Life. Note: simply due to the volume of content Netflix creates, we have created a separate list of just their best-reviewed titles which we will be running on Christmas Day.
U.S. Army Is Concerned by Cyborg Soldiers Due to Terminator Movies
While the U.S. Army is currently planning for how human-machine hybrids may impact the proverbial battlefield in 2050, it is also addressing and taking seriously its concerns. Specifically, the army is worried that "humans are biased against deadly cyborg soldiers, just because we've all seen the Terminator franchise and it doesn't work out very well for the humans."
As reported by Gizmodo, the U.S. Army recently released a new report titled "Cyborg Soldiers 2050: Human/Machine Fusion and the Implications for the Future of the DOD," and it dives deep into how human soldiers can be augmented with such things as "cybernetic ears and brains jacked into the internet" and how this may affect our future.
IGN’s Staff Reviews Netflix’s The Witcher
The Witcher: Season 1 is now available on Netflix, and a bunch of IGN's staff spent the weekend binging the newest adventures of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri.
In addition to the official IGN review posted on Monday (and all the individual episode reviews posted on Friday), below you'll find reactions from eight staff members across all of our content-making departments -- from editorial to social, video to product -- all of which are kept as spoiler-free as possible.
Following the format of our staff reviews of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, we had each staff member who participated in these unofficial ratings choose the word on the IGN review scale that they felt best reflected their sentiments rather than assigning a number score.