30-year old Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created a virtual reality headset that kills a user in real life if they die in-game, by exploding their head. Finally, the high-stakes video gaming I’ve been waiting for! Some more information about the headset while I wonder what Facebook’s next move will

This is a video of a pipe laborer in New Orleans demonstrating how a high pressure pipe can be repaired while running using a clamping metal sleeve with its own pressure release fitting, which can be closed once the collar is secured in place. Honestly, every time I think about

In what is arguably the most important time capsule of all time, TikTok user Sunday Nobody built and buried a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus not to be reopened for 10,000 years containing a single snack size bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin for future civilizations to discover, and, presumably,

Built by LEGO fan Brandon Jones and displayed at the recent BrickCon 2022 in Seattle, this massive Super Mario Bros level features 14 motors to make the pieces really MOVE. And you know how I feel about moving. “You try to as little as possible throughout the day.” Fact! “And

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of mobile game Candy Crush Saga (and the ridiculous amount of money it’s made), King Digital Entertainment held a fair along the Hudson River in New York City, with a 500 drone light show finale inspired by the game. Damn, 10 years — have I

Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off!

This is a short video of a man turning an empty Jack Daniels bottle into a gin glass. Wow, drinking gin out of a whiskey bottle, is nothing sacred? Just how drunk are you? Honestly, I’m not sure why anybody would want to drink gin out of anything — gin

This is a video from Thomas Edison’s motion picture studio of the first ever copyrighted film, The Blacksmith Shop, filmed by Edison’s assistant W.K.L. Dickson, and delivered to the Library of Congress for copyrighting in August of 1893. Granted it’s not a particularly exciting film, but historic nonetheless. Ah, August,