GoPros aren’t just for extreme athletes anymore. In a video posted Monday to the 5MadMovieMakers YouTube channel, a tiny Hot Wheels car with a camera strapped on heads out for an epic road trip. This is the kind of ride you imagined your toys were having when you weren’t around, the sort of fun they …

It had been about 24 hours since the internet had a new Olympic meme to play with, so we were due. When Bahamian runner Shaunae Miller literally dove across the finish line in the 400-meter Olympic finals in Rio, beating American Allyson Felix, social-media creative types quickly moved on from Usain Bolt’s midrace grin and Michael Phelps’ scowl-face. The dive …

#PhelpsFace has had its day. The infamous image of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps scowling like a scary Anakin Skywalker captured online imaginations for a few days, but the new Olympic photo meme is as sunny and happy as a day on Copacabana Beach. When Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt zoomed past his competitors in the semifinal heat of the 100-meter dash …

There’s probably no logical, scientific reason to drop bowling balls 150 feet off a tower on to an axe and watch them get sliced and diced like a Benihana lunch. But sometimes human beings just like to break things. Or maybe someone clumsy who’d dropped a bowling ball on their foot one too many times wanted revenge. You might even …

Crime is nothing to laugh at, and we sincerely hope the police of Cumru Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, catch the man who robbed a local food mart on Monday. That said, we’re unsure this provided sketch is going to help. A white male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt pulled a knife and robbed the store before fleeing on foot, …

Let’s face it: Few of us have the well-muscled bodies of an Olympic athlete. Just watching the swimmers walk around is like an abdominal anatomy lesson. But a fun web tool from the BBC lets you see whose body shape most resembles your own. The Body Match quiz asks for your height, weight and birthdate. (Americans: If you’re using our …

Nope nope nope nope nope nope. No matter how attached I may feel to my cell phone, this creepy charger is never, ever entering my home. For one thing, it costs more than $6,000 (about £4,600, AU$7,800) on Etsy, where Japanese artist Mio Izawa is selling it. But really, you could pay me $6,000 and I wouldn’t — well, I …

Hey, this is kind of a funny-looking acorn. Hmm, nobody’s looking, what if I just grab it? Cool, mom didn’t notice and that obnoxious grabby-paws Rocky didn’t clue in. I’m off to the races! Related stories See what happens when you strap a GoPro to a cheetah Watch a dog wearing a GoPro happily chase after a drone Hmm, it’s …

This may come as a shock to all those folks with dogs named Boba or Jango, but according to research by Facebook, it’s cat people, not dog lovers, who are supposed to read and watch sci-fi and fantasy. Facebook reported Monday that it dug into data from 160,000 users of the site who shared pet photos, and drew a litter …

How can we ever have an Olympics in the future without Michael Phelps? He’s either winning enough medals to knock himself over if he ever wore them all, or he’s naming his son Boomer. And now comes #PhelpsFace. Phelps pulled the now-infamous expression on Monday night at the Rio Games, as his South African rival Chad Le Clos danced around …