YouTuber Luís César N. Giestas, a product designer and teacher in Lisbon, experimented with making coffee accessories with coffee grounds.

He began by gathering coffee grounds from eighteen nations that produce them. These 15 pounds of coffee grounds he curiously identified as a year's supply. As a binding agent, he composed a mixture of water, honey, and agar. This mixture and the coffee formed a soft mass which he pressed into molds for a cup and a saucer.

Giestas then dried his cup and saucer for a week until they became firm. He made pour-over coffee and served it in this literal cup of coffee.  The structure proved remarkably stable and survived boiling water.

At the conclusion of his experiment, Giestas broke up the coffee cup, melted it, and then used the mass to form a flower pot. What belongs in this flower pot? A coffee plant, of course!

-via David Thompson

Wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks founded the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards in 2015. They've proven to be a huge hit and a favorite of Neatorama readers. They serve a good cause, too, as the annual project raises money for wildlife conservation efforts--fully 10% of the program's net revenue.

You can view a gallery of the finalists here. They include Allison Tuck's contribution titled "Now Which Direction Is My Nest?" I'd like to tell the bird that we're laughing with her, but not at her, but we know that wouldn't be true.

Browse the gallery for scenes of romance, play, and happy accidents.

-via Gizmodo

Visit the little US Post Office in the town of Hoolehua on the Hawaiian island of Molokai and you can mail an entire coconut as is. The US Postal Service informs us that the practice began in 1991 when the then-postmaster came up with the idea as a way to visitors and residents to share with friends around the world an unusual bit of Molokai culture.

The program is called Post-A-Nut. Every year, this post office sends out about 3,000 coconuts, including 700 to addresses outside of the United States. The post office provides the coconuts and decorating materials for free. The customers do have to pay for postage, though, which results in the coconuts becoming covered with stamps.

-via The Takeout

In 2003, when Chilean television aired the original trilogy of Star Wars films, an inventive broadcast team digitally added commercials into the story so that characters appeared to reach for iced bottles of Cerveza Cristal brand beer at appropriate moments. A collection of these commercials went viral about a year and a half ago.

They inspired imitators within the Trekkie community, notably YouTuber VitaZed. You can find all five of them on his channel. My favorite is a pivotal scene above from Star Trek: First Contact in which Zefram Cochran hesitates during the launch of humanity's first warp-capable vessel.

-via Holodeck Four

It stands to reason that, if humanity should advance, it should grasp at every possible opportunity to gain knowledge and power. It is only by ambition that humanity can rise above fleshly constraints. This is the lesson of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus:

A sound magician is a mighty god:

Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.

The food blogger Seeded at the Table understands, hence the need to create marshmallow treats, but without the traditional puffed rice cereal. Nay, such glutinous confections must be structured around Flaming Hot Cheetos to blend the tart powdered cheese flavor with the sweetness of marshmallow.

-via @369sosa, who warns, "God will deal with you."

Yesterday marked the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, which was the decisive battle of the Norman invasion of England. William the Bastard earned the sobriquet William the Conqueror when he defeated and killed King Harold Godwinson at Hastings.

The Norman yoke then fell upon the people of England. From a certain point of view, Harold Godwinson was the last legitimate King of England.

Internet rumor tells us that, every year, on the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the Hastings Observer prints a notice of memorial to him.

-via the patriotic Frenchman Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry:

The Anglo will never forgive the Frenchman for teaching his ancestors how to speak civilized, not eat with his hands, use a toilet, etc. https://t.co/JSaEJiJ03n

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) October 14, 2025

The Netty is quite small--just two rooms. But those rooms are luxurious and comfortable. This is what you would expect from an underground Victoria Era public toilet in the UK.

According to The Independent, the restroom in central Oxford was built in 1895 and closed in 2008. Up to two guests can stay in each of the two suites. You can see floor plans and photos here. Although there is no room service, there are restaurants on both sides of the street. Tourists have immediate access to the Ashmolean Museum of art and archaeology literally a few yards away.

-via Oddity Central

The keyboard? How quaint.

Personally, I'd rather go old school with this peripheral device inspired by rotary phones. Even the backspace key on the Gboard has been replaced with a rotating indicator!

Google's Japan division offers this innovative design. You can download the 3D files and firmware here and make your own. Everything rotates, including the users in the video promoting the product. Google is convinced that everything can rotate and should be rotated for maximum efficiency.

I'm 90% sure this is a joke but 100% sure it is an awesome development that could be useful under unusual or extreme conditions.

-via The Awesomer

I mean, technically, a regular clothes washing machine or even a dishwasher can be a human washing machine if it's suffiiently large and the bather is really committed to the project.

But this product concept by the blandly-named firm Science Co. Ltd. is designed to wash and dry a human in 15 minutes without risking the bather's life. Spoon & Tamago photographed it at a recent tech show in Osaka.

This product concept isn't just a vision of the future, but also a reflection of the past. It harkens viewers back to a similar product on display at a world's fair in 1970 in Osaka.

Like flying cars, we never got this retrofuturistic visions to become reality. We did get X, though.

-via Nag on the Lake

The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is, in our time, found most commonly in Central Asia. But as recently as 70 to 130 years ago, the species could be found in southern Spain. These birds' nests in isolated, mountainous locations include man-made objects that the vultures found. They function as unintended time capsules. Smithsonian magazine reports that archaeologists have studied these materials in long-abandoned vulture nests.

Among the 200 human artifacts are a sandal that dates back 650 years, a crossbow bolt, a slingshot, and horse tack. Radiocarbon dating permits scientists to establish when these organic materials were produced.

-via David Thompson | Photos: David Ruh and Ecology, respectively

Jörg Hillebrand is the greatest living Star Trek scholar. We've previously noted how he's proven that Patrick Stewart exists within the Star Trek universe. This conclusion is the work of Hillebrand's meticulous research of encyclopedic scope and perfect organization. To us Trekkies, Hillebrand is a colossus bestriding Ten Forward.

So I follow him on X for the connections that he draws. Today, Hillebrand noted that Captain Picard's dress uniform tunic gets shorter as the series progresses. The uniform fortunately includes pants, so we fortunately don't see anything improper. But viewers should remember to look Picard in the eyes and not cast their vision downward.

When Optimus Prime orders his Autobots to transform, he comes across as bold and commanding. He speaks like a leader decisively addressing challenges that they face. But he's actually being conflict avoidant. It's a form of escape, not engagement.

This is true especially when Optimus is in couples' counseling. Here, he is more vulnerable than in combat and more fearful than in a duel with Megatron. On the couch, Optimus must face who he has not been in this relationship. New Yorker cartoonist Adam Sacks illustrates our hero's failure.

No, you haven't stepped inside a cartoonist's notebook. This is Shirokuro, a high-end sushi restaurant in New York City. The unique facility bills itself as the opportunity to "dine in 2D."

The New York Post reports that Denver is preparing for an especially brutal endurance race. The Taco Bell 50K is a demanding test of not only cardiovascular fitness but also intestinal fortitude. Participants are required to stop at at least 9 of the 10 Taco Bells along the route and consume food. This is the eighth such competition and the rules (including banning the use of performance-enhancing drugs) make this race into the ultimate test of athleticism:

3. By the 4th stop, all entrants must have consumed at least one (1) Chalupa Supreme or one Crunchwrap Supreme (dietary restrictions will be allowed within reason).

4. By the 8th stop, all entrants must have consumed at least one (1) Burrito Supreme or one Nachos Bell Grande (dietary restrictions will be allowed within reason).

5. Finish under 11 hours.

6. Drinks do not count as food.

7. Entrants must keep all receipts and wrappers for confirmation of stupidity at the end of the run. [...]

11. No on-course Pepto, Alka Seltzer, Pepcid A/C, Mylanta will be allowed!

12. Additional "rules" may be added, amended, or changed to promote the intent of this run, which is to do something completely stupid.

What would be the optimal meal plan at Taco Bell to power through this run?

-via Jarvis Best

Århus, the second largest city in Denmark, lies on eastern side of the Jutland peninsula. Dating back to the Eighth Century AD, it is one of the oldest continuous settlements in the country.

The city leans into its Viking Era history. Atlas Obscura informs us that since 2019, some of the traffic lights in the city show axe and shield-bearing Norse warriors walking or standing still.

Photo: Atlas Obscura user Johan SWE