This is a beautiful flyover of ancient Rome as it was around 4AD, digitally reconstructed in 3D by the folks at History In 3D. The eight-minute video represents about 40% of Rome, and the team hopes to reconstruct the rest in the future. Some more info about the video and

This is a photo and short video of the roughly 30-foot long dungeon map created by RPG-themed tea company D&Tea (there’s a market for everything). Now that — that would make for a serious Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Obviously, I will play as my usual rogue elf arcane trickster and

This is a video from Youtuber My Mountain Husky, who filled his home with 2,000 tennis balls, then set up cameras (including on one dog’s back) and left to see how his huskies Kakoa and Sky would react to this canine version of a very shallow Chuck E. Cheese ball

In bad news, this is a video of Engineering Arts’ humanoid robot Ameca (previously) attempting to grab the arm of an actual person who boops its nose. Granted,you shouldn’t just go around booping noses all willy-nilly, but you also shouldn’t teach robots to aggressively respond to human interaction. This will

This is a video from Instagram user mrdonkers (great name) of a man sitting in a sofa chair in a field singing John Denver’s West Virginia classic ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ to a group of very attentive donkeys. Except the one facing the other way in the back —

In death defying news, this is some security camera footage of a Chinese factory worker who hauls a pallet truck loaded with heavy bags into an elevator and is reaching to pull the safety gate down when the whole damn elevator plummets to the depths below just inches behind him.

This is a sizzle reel (think fajitas at Chili’s) for Hyundai Motor Group’s new Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a flat robotic platform on wheels that uses smart suspension and “eccentric wheel drive” powered by three motors in each wheel to keep its payload stabilized no matter the terrain. Some more

These are several videos of Luckie Duckie, a German Shorthaired Pointer that was rescued at 8-months old deathly emaciated and miraculously made a full recovery (check out his TikTok if you feel like shedding a tear this morning), and now occasionally wears a children’s Jurassic World t-rex dinosaur mask (available