TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
2001 BBC News Report About Upcoming Cameraphones
Take a trip down memory lane all the way back to 2001 with this BBC news report about the upcoming release of cameraphones — phones that can take and send photos in addition to text messages. The future! I love how the multimedia message the guy sends in the video
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Guy Performs Entirety Of Green Day’s Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Acapella
This is a video of musician Jared Halley performing all the individual instrumental parts (including vocals) of Green Day’s 1992 banger ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ acapella, combining them into a multi-track performance of the entire song. That’s neat. You know, I always fancied my voice a bass guitar. It’s deep.
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Guy Builds Miniature Version Of Real Roller Coaster With K’Nex
Inspired by the very real roller coaster Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point, this is a video of Venomeater123 (is that venom-eater or veno-meater?) demonstrating the miniature version he build using K’Nex. It took him almost a year to construct, which doesn’t surprise me, because that thing is massive. What would
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Oculus VR Co-Founder Develops Headset That Kills You IRL If You Die In-Game
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
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Pipe Laborer Demonstrates High Pressure Pipe Repair
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
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Man Builds, Buries 3,000Lb Sarcophagus For Bag Of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
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,
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Massive Motorized LEGO Super Mario Level
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
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500 Drone Light Show In NYC Celebrates 10th Anniversary Of Candy Crush
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
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Humanoid Robot Maintains Balance After Getting Shoved On Treadmill
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!
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Man Turns Jack Daniels Bottle Into Drinking Glass
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
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