A home for useful little obsessions
HUMAN SURVIVAL DEPARTMENT
EST. JUST IN TIME
A slightly paranoid field guide
for a very strange future.
REAL HABITS. FICTIONAL EMERGENCIES.
DEFINITELY WRITTEN WITH AI. AWKWARD.
CASE 001 / THE FAMILIAR VOICE
It sounds like Mum. She says it’s urgent. What’s your first move?
THE COLLECTION / PICK YOUR RABBIT HOLE
18 projects · 18 ready to explore
Showing all 18 experiments.
Bigger canvases. Deeper tools. The next chapter of familiar worlds.
01 EXPERIMENT
Cinematic car workshop · v2.2
Explore Jesse’s garage, inspect and assemble cars, compare prepared visuals, and turn a build into a packet, quote, or PDF report. Seeded image library; no live AI provider. No login required.
Open Garage WorksA new chapter of the Lab. Familiar worlds. More ways to play.
07 EXPERIMENTS
Interactive field manual
A cinematic safehouse for the age of AI. Face a cloned-voice call, test a signal pouch, and learn what actually works. No login required.
Enter Human Mode
Severance fan experience
Step into a retro macrodata refinement terminal, find unsettling number clusters, and sort them into five bins. No login required.
Begin refinement
Interstellar fan experience
Meet a four-column steel crewmate in cinematic Endurance, Gargantua, and Miller’s planet scenes. Explore its movement, or download the desktop assistant for local AI chat.
Meet TARS
Matrix-inspired creative studio
Conjure full-body figures from cascading code. Shape their look, change the signal color, align a reference photo, and export a scene for your video edit.
Create a construct
Hackers fan game
Enter the Gibson as hacker or security. Follow clues, recover the worm’s evidence, counter familiar attacks, and stop Da Vinci sabotage. No login required.
Enter the Gibson
Silicon Valley fan experiment
Point your camera or upload a photo for the iconic green Hotdog or red Not hotdog reveal. Real recognition runs on your device, with mistakes and unsure results kept visible. No login required.
Hotdog or not?
Word laboratory
How much Spanish is hiding inside your English? Split familiar words, test three endings, and explore the connections and surprising exceptions. No login required.
Investigate a wordThe original collection, from World Route Creator through Gather.
10 EXPERIMENTS
Creative tool
Turn a journey into a cinematic travel animation, with illustrated maps, animated vehicles, and your own finishing touches.
Make a travel film
Interactive exploration
Explore a hypothesis about intelligence, instinct, awareness, and agency through six connected, interactive perspectives.
Explore what moves you
Daily game
Test your sales-compensation knowledge with seven timed prompts, practice rounds, and an animated climb.
Start your daily climb
Creative tool
Give your words a moving look with cinematic, playful and kawaii styles, custom emoji art, and transparent video overlays.
Make your words move
Open-world driving game
Cruise a miniature North Carolina Triangle, steal cars, take on three jobs, escape police chases, and carry your progress with save codes.
Hit the Triangle streets
Adventure game
Clock in as Jim Halpert in a five-episode The Office fan adventure with fifteen missions, four hands-on puzzles, and the whole Scranton gang.
Clock in at Scranton
Daily trivia game
Make Pawnee proud with seven daily Parks and Rec prompts, forgiving name matching, practice rounds, and a tour of City Hall’s murals.
Make Pawnee proud
Family home · UAT
Keep family stories, faces, and gatherings close, and choose what your children discover. A fictional family demo; owner ChatGPT sign-in required.
Open Kindred
Family discovery for kids · UAT
Meet relatives, hear family stories in English or Spanish, play face-and-name games, and collect stickers. A fictional family demo; owner ChatGPT sign-in required.
Explore Little Kin
Family event planner · UAT
Bring everyone together with a shared itinerary, arrival and pickup plans, contributions, and a scrapbook of the moments that matter. Private preview; password required.
Visit GatherA LITTLE DISTANCE. A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.
Turn your route into a cinematic travel animation. Choose your stops, pick your ride, and give the map a personality of its own.
Make a travel filmMade in your browser. Yours to take home.
Been here before? Your earlier travel projects still have a home.
Find saved projectsTHE IDEA BEHIND THE LAB
The Heavy Lab is a home for independent tools and creative experiments. Some help you make things. Some help you think. Some are just a good reason to play.
Every project starts with a question: what if? This is where those questions become something you can open, explore, and make your own.
AN OPEN LINE / GET IN TOUCH
A question, a curious idea, or something that could work better. There’s room for it here.
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