Built by Dutch artists Aat Dirks and Ad Lakerveld, the Pedaalbeest is a pedal-powered walking machine inspired by the kinetic wind-powered Strandbeests created by Theo Jansen. To move forward, you pedal backwards. Is it practical? Absolutely not. It’s still cool though. The way it moves — it reminds me of
This is a short video from Youtuber Rescue & Restore, demonstrating the functionality of a 19th century candle snuffer, a device that automatically extinguishes a candle after it’s melted to a certain point. Pretty clever. And here I thought the only way to extinguish candles was to wait for the
Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, these noise-cancelling headphones are able to cancel all outside noise except for a person’s voice through the power of AI. You just push a button on the side of the phones to train the AI on a person’s vocal patterns, and BOOM,
This is a video of bird rehabilitator Gary Zammit of Cornwall, England’s Screech Owl Sanctuary and Parkk dressed as a lollipop ghost and feeding an abandoned baby stork with a puppet. That goodness that baby’s eyes are still developing, because that puppet is terrifying. The bird, which was abandoned by
Created by the folks of Youtube channel Every Flavor Of Robot (even rum raisin and butter pecan?!), the Etch-A-Sketch Camera is a modified version of the toy that can turn taken photos (or ones pulled from the internet) into line drawings with the power of AI. That’s pretty impressive. Still,
This is some drone footage captured by storm chaser and meteorologist Reed Timmer in Greenfield, Iowa of a multi-vortex tornado toppling some wind turbines and being the all around destructive force of nature that it is. So, if you were wondering what happens when a tornado meets a wind turbine,
This is the music video for ‘The Spark’, a song created by a group of Irish tweens as part of the youth rap initiative Rhyme Island in Cork, Ireland. It was released ahead of of June 15th’s Cruinniú na nÓg, an annual “free day of creativity for young people” in
These are several videos of musician Josh Harmon recreating cartoon sound effects with his percussion instruments and other objects. You may recall Josh from the video of him recreating the sound effects from the trailer for The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom. Or you might not. Me? I