This Levitating Matchstick Trick Is a Great Excuse to Play With Fire

Need an excuse to go play with matches? Too bad, you’re getting one anyway. Turns out if you place a couple matches up against each other just right and then light them on fire (duh), you can actually perform a crazy little levitation trick!

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10 Clever Food Tips That Will Make Eating Easier

The constant helping hand of Household Hacker is back again with 10 new tips that’ll make life easier for you. This time, they’re tackling food-related tricks like opening a jar, mass producing hard boiled eggs and even giving you a few easy recipes. If the kitchen is the final level video game boss in your home, you’ll probably find one tip you can use from this. Eating doesn’t have to be so hard. [Household Hacker]

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10 Tricky Bar Bets You’ll Never Ever Lose

If you haven’t already alienated all your friends, coworkers, and enemies by conning them out of their hard-earned dignity with tricky bar bets already, here’s another batch to make you reconsider. The unstoppable Richard Wiseman is back with another dollop of unloseable bets from his seemingly endless bag.

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This Terrifying Lighting Storm Is a Masterful, Miniature Fake

This Terrifying Lighting Storm Is a Masterful, Miniature Fake

If you want to get a good shot of lightning, it helps to have an amazing sense of timing. Barring that, you could just fake it by creating an entire miniature lightning storm that looks impossibly real, and shooting that instead. Same difference.

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What’s Your Favorite Life Hack for Technology?

Because smart people who are good at solving problems with DIY methods or life hacks also happen to be very good at the Internet and because people who are good at the Internet also happen to be very good at finding DIY methods or life hacks to solve problems, it seems like we’ve come to a point where we already know how to solve all of technology’s minor annoyances with simple DIY hacks.

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What Are Your Hottest Tips For Browsing the Web Like a Boss?

What Are Your Hottest Tips For Browsing the Web Like a Boss?

With Google Reader finally dead and gone, it seems like as good a time as any to rethink the way we all look at the web. There’s a whole wealth of browsers and widgets and apps and extensions out there that will try to alter your browsing experience. Some of them will change your life, other’s won’t.

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10 Bar Bets You’ll Never Lose (But Might Get You Punched in the Face)

Gambling might be risky, but not if you know you’re going to win. Then it’s just free money. If that sounds up your alley, conman extraordinaire Richard Wiseman has yet another set of "bets" for you to try out on your friends. The ones that won’t assault when they get wise to what you’re up to, anyway.

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How to Make a Better Sand Castle That Can Hold the Weight of a Human

Here’s a relatively useless yet undoubtedly impressive trick you can pull the next time you go to the beach: make a sand castle that’s so unbelievably sturdy that it can hold up an entire person. Seriously. What’s it take? Unfortunately, a wee bit more than just wet sand. More »

Who Knew People Could Jump Rope Like This?

You’ve probably been impressed with playground kids jumping rope (or is it jump roping?). You’ve already seen boxers whip the jump rope fast enough to create a wormhole. But you’ve never seen a person jump rope like this. This woman is absolutely incredible More »

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Spotify Master

The digital music revolution continues at a frenetic pace — we’d only just turned in our CDs for MP3s when streaming services came along to upturn the apple cart again. There are now a whole host of streaming apps to choose from, but the original pioneer Spotify remains the biggest and the most well-known. More »