This is a video of a machine that was created with one job and one job only: to balance a bowling ball on a spool without it rolling off either side, constantly adjusting itself to keep the ball right on top. Not bad, but if it can’t also hula hoop

Because everything in Russia, just like in Australia, wants to kill you, this is a video of a massive ice block falling from a building and crushing a car’s windshield right as a passenger climbs in. Then both people exit the vehicle without putting the car in park or setting

Because the heck if I know, this is a video of University of Illinois gymnast Evan Manivong sticking the landing for a career-high tying vault, and immediately celebrating by whipping out his vaccination card for everyone to see. That’s…something. Me? I would have whipped out a stolen credit card and

This is a video of chemical engineer James Orgill of The Action Lab creating what is allegedly the world’s darkest clothing, using IR flock sheet (a sort of velvety fabric specifically designed to absorb infrared light, available here for around $40/roll). I’m sure it’s fairly obvious, but these are not

This is a video of 19-year old Corey Bennet demonstrating his unique shoulder-clapping talent as a result of being born without collarbones (he was actually born with Cleidocranial dysostosis, “that primarily affects the development of bones and teeth”). Pretty wild. Me? I was actually born with– “Let me guess, a

This is a video from Festo (not be confused with Fisto, the Protectron robot found in Fallout: New Vegas that you can mod into a pleasure bot) of their latest generation of BionicSwifts, robotic birds that fly using the same mechanics as real birds. According to Festo, the latest BionicSwifts

This is a video of train maniac (trainiac) Jason Shron giving a passenger’s point-of-view tour of the HO scale model railway he built to resemble some of the the real-life route from Toronto to Montreal, aka the Canadian National Railway’s Kingston Subdivision line. The interior of the train seen in

Because the robot apocalypse can’t come soon enough, these are several videos (one from Fort Pierce, Florida, three from the East River in New York City — slide the slider on the first Instagram video to see the second) of people walking Boston Dynamics’ Spot robotic dog on leashes. Obviously,

Because dream it and you achieve it (or, in my case, die giving it the ol’ college-try nowhere near your goal), this is a video of Ernest Brenchley of freestyle trampoline crew(?) Radial Flipz performing what is allegedly the world’s first trampoline octuple backflip with the help of a couple

Because how can you trust a bro if you can’t even rely on him to stop a box fan or Gatorade cooler thrown at your face, or every kind of ball imaginable at your nuts, this is a compilation of the bros (and at least one sis) of TikTok YngEra