This is a video of John Reynolds recording the reactions of unknowing riders when he hits the gas in his 517-horsepower 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle (about 11-times the horsepower of a stock 1973 Beetle). John calls the car the VW Supersleeper, because it looks as much like a typical underpowered
Because safety first, this is a video from a German construction site where a 68-ton toppled crane is being righted by another crane when the cables give way and almost drops it on two workers standing directly beneath it. Thankfully for them, the original crane’s support footing manages to keep
Brickit is a smartphone app (currently available for iOS, Android coming soon) that can analyze any photo of spread out LEGO pieces (aka a LEGO minefield), identify the different pieces present via machine learning, suggest things you can build with them, and provide the step-by-step instructions to build those things.
Because sometimes you don’t have a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, this is a video of a mom demonstrating her trick for getting her daughter to drink her liquid medicine — by passing a straw through the top of Juicy Juice box, out of a hole
This is a short video of a fisherman reeling in a fish when the hook comes loose, launching it right at his face and getting stuck in his eyebrow. Talk about close calls. So, is this what eyebrows were designed for? Because I’ve just been accidentally burning mine off in
This is a video of Lindy the husky losing track of a treat under her own paw. She can smell it and knows its nearby, but can’t find it. I’m sure there’s a metaphor for life here somewhere. Probably something about searching for true happiness. Or maybe your car keys.
Gravity: I wish it wasn’t so strong on earth. But only for me, I wish it was doubly strong for everyone else. But enough daydreaming about me leapfrogging over everyone all day, this is a visualization created by planetary space scientist James O’Donoghue comparing the gravity on various bodies of
This is a video of maker of things The Q using math to construct an elliptical pool table that sinks every shot from a spray painted dot on the table, provided you hit the ball hard enough and not just barely tap it to prove him wrong and win a
