Meet the couple who sailed across Mongolia in a handmade cart

Inside the gers, the couple were invariably greeted with cookies made of fried dough, tea, noodle soup, meat dumplings, and bone broth. As a way to earn their keep, they helped the families with animal husbandry as best they could, and spent time herding goats, wrangling lambs, mucking stalls, feeding horses, and even butchering some […]

These handmade leather boots are a fraction of the cost you’d normally pay — and they come with a lifetime warranty

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Oliberté is a sustainable footwear brand based out of Ethiopia selling handmade leather boots at an accessible price point. We had a chance to try out two of their […]

Tanks for nothing: Chinese police seize man’s hand-made battle vehicle (VIDEO)

A Chinese man who spent months converting a disused truck into a drivable novelty tank, complete with a gun turret and radar dish, has seen his invention confiscated by police. The man, identified only by his surname, Huang, had spent two months building the ‘war machine’ from an old truck in the city of Laibin […]

The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer

Enlarge / Mihai Moldovanu tinkers with his beloved Cobra. (credit: Adi Dabu) BUCHAREST, Romania—Mihai Moldovanu grabs the cardboard box with the enthusiasm of a man from the future who’s opening a time capsule. “Maybe it could still work,” he tells me. He dusts it off with his hands. Inside the box rests the computer he […]

Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman Reunite With NBC to Host ‘The Handmade Project’

Leslie and Ron are back together again! Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are planning to fill the hole in our hearts left by the Parks and Recreation finale (I know it was two years ago, I’m still not over it!) with the purest reality show you’ve possibly ever heard of: The Handmade Project. And they […]