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The Jonas Brothers Are Ready For Summer In The Video For Their Second...

In the music world, comebacks can be an uncertain thing. Maybe the artist can’t make songs like they used to, or maybe their fans have just moved on. However, that has definitively not been the case...

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The Jonas Brothers Made Their Triumphant ‘SNL’ Return — And Played A...

The Jonas Brothers are officially back. The trio, who went on hiatus in 2013, have joined back up for a new album and massive world tour. Happiness Begins is still a month away, but the JoBros’...

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The Jonas Brothers Brought Serious Summer Vibes To Their Performance Of...

The Jonas Brothers are officially back. Nick, Joe, and Kevin are releasing a new album called Happiness Begins on June 7, and it’s their first proper album together since 2009. We’ve only heard two...

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Tove Lo Landed Songwriting Credits On Dua Lipa’s Album, ‘Future Nostalgia’

Tove Lo is continuing her prolific 2019 into the new year. Last September, the singer released her anticipated record Sunshine Kitty, but she didn’t stop there. Since her album’s release, Tove Lo has...

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Style Icon Coltrane Curtis Shares His Vision For Life After Quarantine

UPROXX COVID-19 has changed the shape of… f*cking everything. The restaurant industry, modern fashion, movies premieres, sex — it’s all already shifted and will continue to shift. Be ready, friends,...

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The Internet Reacts To The Mars Curiosity Rover

The Mars Curiosity rover successfully landed in Gale Crater today as Dave Chappelle prophesied. Mars Curiosity beat the odds (40% chance of success) and stuck the landing. It didn’t take long for the...

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Awesome Dad Built A Backyard Roller Coaster For His Daughter

We sometimes like to highlight the awesome things some parents do for their kids, like cosplaying every day to wave at the school bus or dressing up as Spider-Man to surprise them with a trampoline...

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Souped-Up Kicks: 20 Awesome Pairs Of Geeky Hand-Painted Sneakers

Once in awhile we like to share pictures of geeky hand-painted sneakers here, but today’s find may be the best collection yet. The creative team of Art Narin and Koi Thitiporn make custom-painted shoes...

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Chinese Farmer With No Hands Built His Own Bionic Replacements

Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old farmer in China, lost both of his hands while building a bomb to fish with (as one does). The accident was eight years ago, at which time the hospital quoted a price for...

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The Force Is Strong With These Custom 'Star Wars' Helmets From The As You...

Lin Zy Busch and her Lego Clone Trooper [via] The As You Wish Project is a charity fundraiser auctioning over 40 redesigned Boba Fett and Clone Trooper helmets putting these iconic Star Wars props...

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I Want To Go To There: Trippy ‘Hyper-Matrix’ Moving Wall Goes On Display

“Dude, what if, like, the wall is stationary and we’re the ones who are moving?” The “Hyper-Matrix” was unveiled by artist group J o n p a s a n g at the Hyundai Motor Group Exhibition Pavilion. The...

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Gloriously Geeky Drummer Totally Steals The Show

The enthusiastic drummer pictured above (and in the two epic videos below) is Kwon Soon Keun, who is now 72 years old but still rocking harder than drummers 50 years his junior. As part of the band...

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Commercial Pilot Videos Week Of Takeoffs And Landings, Makes Lovely Video...

It’s funny — the other day I was on a plane, sitting in the front near the cockpit, and I thought, “Man just once I’d like to be in there for a flight just to see what it’s like.” Unless I get some...

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Morning Wake-Up Call: Ping Pong Ball Explosion And A Cat Singing Star Wars

We couldn’t decide which funny morning pick-me-up to show you to help kick off this exciting* Thursday morning, so you’re getting both. Check out the videos below to see a ping pong ball explosion and...

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Check Out This Awesome Warehouse-Sized Rube Goldberg Machine

Freerunner and parkour dude Jason Paul joined forces with Team Farang and Red Bull to build an enormous Rube Goldberg machine with stunt elements. They set it up in an abandoned factory in Hamburg,...

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This Animatronic Admiral Ackbar Costume Is Decidedly A Trap

Yesterday we were talking about cheap homemade Halloween costumes. Today we’re awestruck by a not-remotely-cheap homemade Halloween costume. This animatronic Admiral Ackbar costume includes servos in...

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Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson) Voices 'Axe Cop' And All Is Right With The World

As you may have heard, Fox is producing an animated version of the Axe Cop webcomic, which is drawn by Ethan Nicolle based on stories by his eight-year-old brother Malachai (who was five when the...

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Tolkien Fan Builds His Own Hobbit House Just To Store His Collection

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. And in Chester County, Pennsylvania, there lived a lucky S.O.B. who built his own hobbit house. He hired architect Peter Archer to build the...

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Guy Builds A Functional Iron Man Gauntlet With Lasers. Take That, Back Of The...

Patrick Priebe of Laser-Gadgets built his own Iron Man gauntlet, complete with two lasers to help him aim his EVEN STRONGER LASERS. We like the way he thinks. Although the laser in this Iron Man...

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Here’s What War Machine And Iron Man Will Look Like In ‘Iron Man 3’

Somebody over at Sideshow is getting fired, possibly out of a cannon into a dumpster of starved badgers, but their loss/horrifying fate is our gain. Here’s the first, and very detailed, look at the...

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The First Music Video Made With Real-Time MRI Techniques Is Suitably...

Adam Powell directed the music video above for “Better Man Than He” by Sivu. Normally we wouldn’t post a music video, but this one was created entirely with Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Sivu in the...

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Ultra-Ever Dry Spray Might Be Black Magic, But We're Coating A Sled With It...

Ultra-Ever Dry is a spray coating with some sort of proprietary nanomaterial which makes it both ridiculously superhydrophobic and surprisingly oleophobic. It has the rare distinction of repelling both...

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Catch You On The Flipside: Stunt Driver Makes The First Successful Car Backflip

French rally driver, skier, and champion snowboarder Guerlain Chicherit performed the first successful 360-degree backflip in a car. Well, the first intentional car backflip anyway. The stunt, seen in...

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Glitch Furniture: This Hand-Carved Cabinet Is Surreal, Mind-Blowing

Our minds were blown this morning by a hand-carved storage unit which Nerdcore nicknamed “Glitch Furniture”. It was made by Ferruccio Laviani, an architect working for furniture maker Fratelli Boffi....

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Spectacular Sci-Fi, Ultraviolent Music Video Of The Day: Biting Elbows’‘Bad...

A music video by Russian indie-punk band Biting Elbows is currently going viral as f–k (that’s the proper technical term for this amount of viral load). YouTube has it listed at 302 views because...

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Right In The Feels: Batman And Captain America Rescued A Cat From A Burning...

An electrical fire in a house in Milton, West Virginia, was a little less tragic this week when the family cat was saved by Batman And Captain America. The two costumed men, John Buckland (as Batman)...

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The Smithsonian Is Putting 3D Models Of Its Collection Online

The Smithsonian has the nickname “America’s Attic”, and for a reason. It owns 137 million items, and it can’t have all of them on display at all times. So instead, it’s putting full 3D models of...

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This Guy Built Leonardo Da Vinci’s Viola Organista, And It Sounds Awesome

Leonardo da Vinci invented the first (as far as we know) bowed keyboard instrument, the viola organista, but his instrument remained a sketch in the Codex Atlanticus and descriptions in his notebooks...

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Watch What Happens When An Awesome Family Comes Together For A ‘Pride and...

Sometimes cosplay and weddings collide in awesomely geeky ways, like the battle wedding, the Calvin & Hobbes wedding, and these engagement announcements. Redditor ByTingo was unexpectedly roped...

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These Star Wars Toys Look More Like Star Wars Than The Prequels

Finnish illustrator Avanaut (née Vesa Lehtimäki) is known for, among other things, his excellence in staging and photographing miniatures. His newest photo sets on Flickr put Star Wars toys in...

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Robert Downey Jr. Continues To Be Awesome, Screens ‘Winter Soldier’ For A...

In case you hadn’t noticed, Robert Downey Jr. is a solid dude. He’s awesomely charitable (even when it hilariously backfires), he has a surprising singing voice, and he’s adept at keeping grandmas calm...

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There Is No Real Need For This Robot Kangaroo. I’ll Take Twenty.

Every year German engineering firm Festo develops a new robotic animal to try and learn from nature how to create a more efficient killing machine. Or, to build better industrial robots. Whatever you...

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Scientists Have Regenerated A Living Organ For The First Time

Regenerative medicine researchers at the University of Edinburgh have successfully regenerated a living organ in a mammal — the thymus of elderly mice, to be specific — by manipulating a single protein...

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The First Lab-Grown Vagina Implants Have Been A Success

Picture unrelated. Just yesterday we shared the awesome news about the first successful regeneration of a living organ in a mammal, and today we can happily share the news that four teenage girls born...

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SpaceX Reveals The Dragon V2 Spacecraft. In Yo’ Face, Russia!

In 2012, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft became the first privately-owned spacecraft to take cargo to the International Space Station and safely return to Earth. It’s made three cargo trips to the ISS since...

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Battle Armor Disney Princesses Don’t Wait For Heroes. They Are Heroes.

Battle Armor Disney Princesses photographed by Howie Muzika. With all the various internet fan art collections answering the question “What if the Disney Princesses were [hipsters / meter maids /...

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Look At This Castle Built With A Freaking 3D Printer

Architect Andrey Rudenko wanted to see how far he could push the boundaries of home building by constructing a 3D printer that could extrude half-inch lines of concrete. What he ended up with is this...

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A Charity Makes Children Superheroes With Prosthetic Wolverine Claws

E-nabling The Future is a charity dedicated to 3D-printing and donating prosthetic hands for children who can’t afford them. The story behind the charity is great in of itself and will warm all but the...

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Non-Profit Makes Three-Year-Old A Radical Prosthetic Iron Man Hand For Free

Bubba was born without most of his right hand. Prosthetic hands can be extremely expensive ($40,000 is a middle-ground number) so Bubba’s grandmother Rulan Waikiki was shocked when she discovered there...

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Ultra-Cool Lando Calrissian Will Make A Comeback In A ‘Stars Wars Rebels’...

https://twitter.com/PixarFanDan/status/554693833418887168/photo/1 One thing very few people can disagree with: Lando Calrissian (played by the always suave Billy Dee Williams) was one of the coolest...

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Is This New Kevin Durant Video Corny Or Cool?

We all remember Kevin Durant’s MVP speech from last year. At once intimate and accessible, it was a rare glimpse into an athlete at his most vulnerable and emotional. The speech was met with lavish...

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There’s Finally A Shirt That You Literally Can’t Stain

The worst part about buying clothing is knowing that, after only a few wears, you’ll probably get some awful substance on it that will refuse to come out. Well, your troubles are over; a new shirt...

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Here’s How To Remove Kim Kardashian From Your Life Forever

Getty Image Sometimes the universe hands you something that you’ve always wanted but don’t know how to ask for. Tomorrow, it may be the secret to obtaining enough pop-tarts to last you a lifetime, but...

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Meet The Man Who Might Have The Strangest Job In America

Shutterstock Slade Fero is the master of his field. If he was a chef, he’d be world-renowned; if he was an author, his books would likely be on the best-seller list. But Fero’s got an even more...

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Here Are All Of Quentin Tarantino’s Bloodiest Scenes In One Grisly Video

Quentin Tarantino’s known for some of the most violent films to be shown in a theater in the past two decades, and one of his trademarks is blood. Lots of blood. So much blood that you marvel at how...

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This Supercut Of Every ’90s Disney Film In One Mega Trailer Will Give You...

There’s no denying that the ’90s were an excellent era for Disney films. The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, and The Rescuers Down Under — yup, you heard us — ushered in a golden age of animated...

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This Guy Found A Useful Way To Give You The Finger

Meet Jerry Jalava. Jerry is a Ducati-riding computer engineer from Helsinki. In 2009, after an accident on his bike left him with part of his finger missing, Jerry decided to do something useful with...

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You used to be cool, you used to be cool, you used to be cool.

Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes and clips and puts it all in perspective. Christian Slater has always been cool. As a kid, I totally looked up to him. I first...

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Soccer Mommy Wrestles With Insecurity On The Airy Indie Rock Single ‘Cool’

Soccer Mommy (aka Sophie Allison) is readying her first album on Fat Possum, as Clean is set for release on March 2nd following years of cultivating a following on Bandcamp with her DIY recordings....

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Soccer Mommy’s ‘Cool’ Video Is A Colorful Mash-Up Of Millennial Cool Girl Tropes

Soccer Mommy’s excellent debut record Clean is currently taking the world by storm, as the follow-up to her earlier collection of Bandcamp demos, Collection. The record came out just before the music...

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