Engineers at Mazda built a prototype suitcase “car” in 1991 to showcase(!) at auto shows. It never made it to production. That’s a shame, the world might be so much different now if it had. Probably not, but you never know. I’m kidding, I slipped into that alternate reality briefly
Following last week’s robotic crash and burn that made us all feel a little more comfortable with the state of robotics, that comfort was quickly dashed(!) when a competitor in the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games beat Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint time. Usain set the human world record in 2009
This is a video from Beijing of a little humanoid robot practicing for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games (aka robot Olympics, starting August 22nd) when it crashes hard into a padded wall, falls, doubles over backwards, and shoots sparks from the abdomen. And not in a sexy way like
Note: None of the 100 screenshots I took do the performance justice, you just have to watch. This is a video of Japanese world yo-yo champion Hajime Miura competing in the 3A division of the World Yo-Yo Contest. The 3A division, which Hajime has won 8 times prior, is for
Because every car commercial should look like it takes place moments after a bank heist gone awry, this is a video of Chinese car manufacturer VOYAH using their electric crossover Passion S to perform a 360° corkscrew in a tunnel. After getting up to speed, the vehicle uses one ramp
Made by the folks at Youtube channel Secondhand Movie Co, this is a ‘If Star Wars had a $10 Budget,’ a 52-minute mostly cardboard recreation/parody of A New Hope. For reference, the original movie was made for around $11-million. Adjusted for inflation that’s roughly $60-million today. This was made for
This is a video of BMX riders attempting a nearly impossible Red Bull obstacle course over water. The course gets progressively harder the further you make it, although the rollers at the very beginning are already enough to take a number of riders out. The course ends with riding across
Is smaller better? Depends on the context. Tax bill, absolutely. Computers? Maybe. But did that stop Youtuber Dr. Kun Dániel from building a functional Windows XP “gaming PC” inside a walnut shell? It did not. The nutputer (he calls it a NutPad) features an ultra-tiny display, 5-button keyboard, and USB-C
