This is a side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of a cigarette lighter being lit, shot using four different Phantom highspeed cameras, capturing the action at 3,200FPS, 5,300FPS, 8,300FPS, and Matrix-speed 28,500FPS. That 28,500FPS footage doesn’t even look real. *touching earpiece* I’m being told it is though. “Who was that?” My fact-checker. “Wait —

Because I stopped trying to understand the internet a long time ago (I just work here with my head down), this is a video of Buckets the Drummer going unnecessarily hard on 10 drum intros while wearing a horse mask and performing on a bucket in the bathtub, usually with

Because nothing quite screams robot apocalypse like a flying robotic spider, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s robotics department have developed just that, in the form of SPIDAR. What does SPIDAR stand for? Why ‘SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot’ of course! Jeez, use your brain.

Because role-playing is fun, this is a video of a Dutch spotted sheep who resides at the Yew Tree Farm School in Sittingbourne, England pretending it’s a dog-sheep and herding the sheep-dog border collie that would normally be herding it. Hoho, role reversal! That’s fun. Like sometimes at work I

Because soon the day will come when everything that shouldn’t exist, does, this is the FINGERring from artist Nadja Buttendorf: a ring that looks like a realistic finger. The bonus finger is made from silicone, and was designed to be cast in a color that matches its wearer’s skintone for

This is a video of the Slow-Mo guys attempting to skip bullets across the water in an aquarium like stones across a pond. That’s cool. Maybe not as cool as my stone-skipping skills, but with the perfect rock I can get three or four bounces sometimes. Without the perfect rock

This is a video of the Epic Cello Quartet (part of Epic Symphonic Rock) performing a medley of Nirvana songs, Iron Maiden’s ‘The Trooper’, and System Of A Down’s ‘Chop Suey!’ during a concert in Lima, Peru. They do an excellent job — I always enjoy hearing songs performed on

Captured by drone flier Joshua Turner, this is some first person POV footage of summiting the Matterhorn in the Alps, flying along the Hörnli Ridge (the standard human route up the mountain) all the way to the very top. That’s cool, I guess I can go ahead and cross ‘Summit