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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

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Black 3.0 Is the Blackest Acrylic Paint in the World

In case you're not familiar with the whole artist feud surrounding Vantablack, here's a quick primer. Vantablack is one of the darkest substances known to man and absorbs up to 99.96% of visible light. Artist Anish Kapoor secured exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack, which pissed off, well, pretty much the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This Custom Porsche Carrera GT Was Rebuilt from the Ground Up

To this day, the Porsche Carrera GT remains one of our favorite cars to ever come out of Germany. The award-winning and downright gorgeous vehicle is getting a new lease on life more than fifteen years later with a Porsche Classic reconstruction for one very lucky (and presumably, absurdly rich)…

By Cooper Fleishman
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1956 Tony MV Go-Kart

We hope you didn’t bypass the part of childhood where you got to helm a zippy little go-kart on a track. The purity of tossing around a lightweight kart powered by a lawnmower engine is a fond memory and surely inspired the careers of many an auto racer back in…

By Amos Kwon
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This 1979 Mercedes-Benz 500 TE AMG Wagon Has a 5.0-Liter V8

Nowadays, everyone knows AMG as the performance arm of Mercedes-Benz that's responsible for their most wild and crazy ideas. But when they got their start more than fifty years ago, Aufrecht, Melcher and Großaspach (AMG) was basically three former Mercedes engineers souping up the German automobiles out of garage. This 1979…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Aerowood Is a Modular Wooden Drone You Build Yourself

Whether you're using it for some fun in the house or to take aerial videos outside, it's a fair bet you already have at least one drone in your arsenal already. It's also a pretty decent bet that you didn't build that drone yourself from the ground up unless you're…

By Cooper Fleishman
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