This is a video of Fonzie from DipYourCar painting a car with a thermochromatic car pigment that turns from black to clear to reveal the color below when it gets hot (previously: painting a glow-in-the-dark car). Pretty cool, especially watching the color change in slow motion. I’m tempted to get
- September 8, 2020
Because what good is Halloween if you can’t trick some treaters, these are the shitake mushroom flavored candy canes made and sold by Archie McPhee ($5.50 for a six-pack, regularly $6.50). Honestly, I’m not sure if I could even identify what shitake tastes like. “What about just shit?” Oh easy,
- September 8, 2020
Because this is the internet, here’s a video of a bunch of different movie characters deepfaked to perform Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’. The video was created by Youtuber ontyj utilizing Wav2Lip, a neural network that uses existing video of human faces speaking to match a different audio source. The result
- September 8, 2020
This is a video of a remote controlled robotic coconut harvester being developed in India as a result of a shortage of current model coconut harvesters, which are actual human beings who climb 50-feet into a coconut tree, then hold on with one hand while hacking off coconut stems with
- September 8, 2020
This is a video of Youtuber Elde Art demonstrating how to make an endless folding picture cube, using one of his own Dragonball Z cubes as an example. I won’t lie, the tutorial looks more complicated than my current skill set is capable of tackling. *shrug* I’m a simple man.
- September 8, 2020
This is a video of programmer Foone playing Doom on an electronic pregnancy test. Is he really though? Some more info while I run to the pharmacy, buy all the electronic pregnancy tests, then open my own video game cafe: to clarify what I’m doing here: This is a replacement
- September 8, 2020
General Mills has just announced for the first time ever it’s offering a limited edition run of Lucky Charms Just Magical Marshmallows for sale to the general public (boxes have only been given away previously in contests). Each 6-ounce bag has a suggested retail price of $3.99 and will be
- September 8, 2020
This is a video of Brazilian artist Luis Henrique producing very impressive string art portraits of Michael Jackson and Elvis by looping a single length of string around the nails surrounding a bicycle rim. He estimates each portrait took about 2,300 lines. How about that! It’s just a bunch of
- September 7, 2020
This is a video of TicTok user aly.sherb’s grandmother showing off the McDonald’s hamburger and fries she’s been keeping alive since 1996. Unsurprisingly to anyone who knows McDonald’s is made with preservative magic and very little actual food, the burger and fries look just like the day they rolled off
- September 4, 2020
This is a short video of chemistry educator Phil Cook demonstrating both the hydrophobic and combustible properties of lycopodium spores. Lycopodium spores are the dried spores of clubmoss plants (aka ground pine), and have long been used for theatrical special effects (in the form of dust explosions) due to their
- September 4, 2020















