These are several videos of Poland’s Big Bike Orchestra, a six-member ensemble that, in addition to performing onstage, also cruises around town playing songs on their 6-person bike. It looks like the front-man just plays the handlebars though. Not very melodic instruments, but somebody’s gotta play them or your next
- July 27, 2026
Because if you’re the only person doing something you’re automatically the record holder, this is a video of Japanese trials rider Tomomi Nishikubo setting the world records for ‘Steepest Bicycle Fakie Nose Manual’ (37.5°) and ‘Longest Distance Traveled by Bicycle Fakie Nose Manual on a Ski Jumping Hill’ (136.6m). You
- July 23, 2026
Because invisibility is never not the name of the spy game, this is a video demonstration of the ‘Phantom Twist’ single-rotor drone developed by researchers at Northwestern University. Its wireframe body spins in the opposite direction of its rotor as it flies, rotating so fast that it almost disappears thanks
- July 22, 2026
Because there will always be a Star Wars nerd fan out there with ungodly amounts of money to spend (hire me), the Luke Skywalker lightsaber and severed hand prop used in The Empire Strikes Back recently sold at auction for $4.69-million ($3.75-million + a 25% buyer’s premium). It is the
- July 21, 2026
Thankful I didn’t have to learn to recite the whole thing in middle school, this is a 37-minute long song from Geography Nerds that sings every county or county equivalent (parishes, boroughs, independent cities) in the United States. All 3,244 of them. It also includes 429 repeats (some multiple times),
- July 20, 2026
Because it was only a short matter of time until Hasbro sniffed out the couple bucks in my wallet, Hasbro Pulse is releasing the Transformers Scooby Doo Mysterious Prime & Automutt ($57 pre-order, ships September 1st). In robot form Mysterious Prime stands approximately 6″ tall and includes interchangeable heads for
- July 16, 2026
In news that makes me really regret not winning the lotto last night (I knew I should have played), one of the largest and most complete t-rex fossils was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $50.1 million to an anonymous phone bidder (crazy how professional I can make myself
- July 15, 2026
Very carefully set up by Youtuber Sprice Machines and eight other domino building fanatics (dominuts), this is video of the construction and destruction of a 123,456 piece domino maze, ending with a 29,193 domino pyramid (35 x 35 base, set the Guinness World Record for most dominoes toppled in a
- July 14, 2026
Using over 2,000 drones, Seoul My Soul orchestrated a Star Wars light show above Seoul, South Korea. Highlights include the Star Wars logo, Millennium Falcon, TIE Fighter cockpit with animated flight, R2-D2 and BB-8, Luke Skywalker and his dad, and the Mandalorian and Grogu. Perhaps the most impressive display though
- July 9, 2026
Note: Watch your volume, jet engine. Because some people have all the fun, Robert “Crazy Rocketman” Maddox is back at it, this time as his seafaring alter-ego Crazy Pirate Captain Bob as he pilots a pulsejet powered dinghy. It’s glorious. Could you imagine if you went back in time to
- July 8, 2026















