Human Kaleidoscope Performance
This is a video of the Black Widow dance crew performing a sort of choreographed kaleidoscope piece. It was really cool to watch, especially when I let my eyes unfocus a bit. I recommend you doing the same thing. I rarely recommend doing what I do, but in this case it was actually worth it and carries very little risk.
Thanks to my dad, who agrees kaleidoscopes are always a good time.
Two Long Distance Dog Friends Chat Over FaceTime
Proof that distance means nothing to true friendship, these are a couple videos of BFFs Sadie and Rollo catching up by whining and howling at each other over FaceTime. Sadie and Rollo used to live together, but after their owners got places of their own further away, they now FaceTime in-between visits. That is precious. My dogs have also learned to video chat, provided barking incessantly during important business calls counts. Honestly, with my microphone off the barking isn’t so bad, it’s trying to pretend one isn’t scooting her butt across the carpet that’s hard.
Keep going for videos from both sides of the conversation.
Riding A Bike With Square Treaded Wheels
This is a video of engineer and maker of things The Q building and riding a bike with square wheels. Not the square wheels you’d expect though, instead of rattling all your teeth out of your head when you ride it, the wheels are actually treaded, which allows for an incredibly smooth, albeit relatively loud, ride. It’s like a tank bike! One I wouldn’t recommend trying to ride through a wall, just to be clear.
Keep going for the video, but skip to the last minute if you just want to see the thing in action.
Shop Vacs Do A Bunch Of Sawdust Lines And Party
Because the internet never stops snorting itself, this is a video created by Wild Balkan Creations imagining what shop vacuums do after all the humans have left the workshop for the night. Apparently they cut up a bunch of sawdust lines then vacuum them into their brains and start raving. I had no idea shop vacs got high on sawdust — it must be great to be one living in a wood shop. And it must really suck to be mine and only get to snort dead spiders and overflowing toilet water.
The World’s Most Advanced Water Gun Costs $179, Has Halo Inspired Tactical Display
Building on the success of its predecessors, the SpyraThree is a fully automatic water gun that can blast 30ml water squirts up to 30 feet (50 feet with a sniper ‘power shot’). The battery powered gun (USB rechargable) can reload itself in just 10 seconds by submerging the barrel in water, pressurizing itself at the same time to shoot at 34.8PSI. It also features a Halo inspired tactical display that shows both number of shots left, and battery life. A full battery should get about 2000 shots, or way more water gun fight than I’ll ever have in me.
You’ll get three fire modes: “freestyle” fires a single shot; burst fires a three-round burst that’d make Master Chief very happy; and a “League mode” simulates ammo clips and occasionally needs “reload” periods. Spyra adds on its page that, “Individual shots are strong but not painful. Part of the fun factor is that you feel the hit, but shouldn’t be knocked out by it.”
That sounds like fun. What doesn’t sound fun is coughing up the $179 price tag. I remember when the Super Soaker 50 came out in 1989 it was like $20 bucks. Plus if you pressurized the tank and unscrewed it fast enough you could shoot it like a rocket at a friend’s face. Now that was a good time.
Thanks to my dad, who agrees they need to make a shotgun version.
Man Gets Hit In Face With Soccer Ball In Ultra-Slow Motion Where 1 Second = 1 Hour
These are several videos from the Slow Mo Guys shot at a blistering 90,000 frames per second, then played back at 25 FPS, stretching every one second of action into an hour. Highlights include Dan getting smacked in the face with a soccer ball, a bullet tearing a playing card in half, and Gav falling into a pool. According to Dan, “if you perceived time at this rate but your body aged as it usually would, a good [life] would give you around 300,000 years of perceived time.” That’s cool, although I doubt I’d look very good at that age. I’m already no spring chicken, I imagine I’d be pretty dusty at 300,000.
FULL HALF HOUR OF BALL HIT:
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- April 29, 2024