marketing Jimmy Dean offers sausage-scented wrapping paper Rusty Blazenhoff

prosthetics Bionic hands controlled by new "minimuscles" implanted in the wearer's arm David Pescovitz

this changes everything Clever holiday gift-wrapping hack goes viral Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutant Find the cuss words in these delightfully subversive 'swearing patterns' Rusty Blazenhoff

videos Bruce Sterling's Long Now talk: what it means to perform futurism Cory Doctorow

fake news Back to the future with this week’s time-traveling tabloids Peter Sheridan

DIY Furoshiki: simple ways to wrap gifts with cloth Carla Sinclair

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

happy mutants Haunted Mansion wallpaper, wrapping paper, and fabric! Cory Doctorow

holidays Custom gift wrap that has your (or someone else's) face on it Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Evidence for a lapsarian decline: Master of the Universe Christmas wrapping paper Cory Doctorow

Technology Amazing flying "dragon" robot that changes shape David Pescovitz

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

Kids Learn how to wrap ten unusual shaped items Andrea James

toys Cardboard skull Rob Beschizza

puzzles Can we wrap a 1x1x1 cube with the blue 3×3 piece of paper, cutting along some edges without disconnecting it? Mark Frauenfelder

Holiday Probably fake: "Terminally ill boy who asked for final Christmas wish dies in Santa's arms" Xeni Jardin

happy mutants How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty Cory Doctorow

design Kickstarting pizza wrapping paper Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Hands-free, self-saranwrapping toilet at O'Hare Airport Cory Doctorow