A couple high school seniors in Michigan recently rigged a junior's locker to open with the wave of a hand, the Livingston Daily reported. It's not a mean trick: The redesign helps Nick Torrance, a Pinckney Community High School junior who has muscular dystrophy, open and close his own locker.

Behind the bars of some of the nation's finest cocktail joints, there are secrets: secret recipes, secret bottles for friends only. One of these is the Green Dragon, a liquor potently infused with marijuana.

One of the more delightful YouTube video genres involves sending a camera into space beneath a weather balloon. The first one I ever saw featured a father and his young son in Brookyln. Other have used it for everything from college admission letters to Hello Kitty to Natty Light, to even a LEGO version Felix Baumgartner's jump. Okay, that last one didn't actually make it to space, but it fits the genre: slow launch, frantic first person footage as it plummets, and then a triumphant recovery. Most of these drops rely on a tough camera casing that can survive the fall back to Earth.

Yesterday, the password for Burger King's official Twitter account was stolen, and whoever was behind it began doing some kinda funny things, like pretending Burger King had been bought by McDonald's, or insisting BK employees "sniff percocets" in the bathrooms, or tweeting at journalists who wrote about the hack. Today, all hell has broken loose; Jeep's account is displaying a similar streak of weirdness ("bought by Cadillac"), and just now, @MTV began behaving weirdly.

Every cardboard box dreams of one day becoming a glorious digital pixel. And this is just about as close as they'll get - in a fun 8-by-8 grid of interactive goodness.

With 10,000 miles separating them, two makers designed and built a customizable 3D-printed prosthetic hand for a 5-year old boy named Liam in South Africa for $150 in parts. No power necessary.