TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Skier And Snowboarder Both Land First 2340° Spins (6.5 Rotations)
This is a video from the recent X-Games on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado of Italian skier Miro Tabanelli and Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara landing the first 2340° spins. Just like the title says, that’s 6.5 rotations, or TRUE STORY: 5.5 more rotations than I completed before breaking my arm.
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Man Installs Flashlight In Prosthetic Eye
After losing his left eye to cancer, machinist Brian Stanley decided to make lemonade and created a titanium prosthetic with an embedded adjustable color LED flashlight (controlled by waving an RFID ring in front of it) so he can illuminate the darkness wherever he goes (or look like a Terminator).
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Timelapse From INSIDE A Watermelon As It Rots Over 128 Days
WARNING: Possibly triggering if you have trypophobia or a general aversion to nastiness. Seen here looking like a dentist’s worst nightmare, this is a video from Photo Owl Time Lapse of a look inside a watermelon as it rots over the course of 128 days. Well, technically the watermelon collapses
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2.5 Billion Pixel Composite Image Of The Andromeda Galaxy Taken By Hubble Space Telescope
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in service, this is a video detailing a 2.5-billion pixel composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy, stitched together from 600 individual photos take by the telescope over ten years. Absolutely stunning (like you, or if you’re a dude: total stud). The Andromeda
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Man Successfully Catches 40 Cup-And-Ball Toys At The Same Time
These are two videos of a member of kendama (the traditional Japanese wooden toy) performance group Densho DEN-SHOW successfully cupping the balls of 40 toys simultaneously. I have also included a video of him previously doing 30. So do you think when he’s practicing for the next big feat he
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The Swish Machine, A 70-Step Basketball Shooting Rube Goldberg Machine
This is a video demonstration of Cree Ossner’s Swish Machine, a massive outdoor Rube Goldberg machine that takes almost 3 minutes to run and starts and ends with the shooting of a basketball (plus has another in the middle!). Although the end shot is more of a roll into the
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Unfortunate Name Pronunciation At Graduation
This is a video of Adrian Marquez Jr.’s graduation from the University Of California Berkeley when the announcer provides an Americanized pronunciation of the name after his (I believe Yuang Shi) very similarly to “You ain’t sh!t.” She really puts some heat on that ball too. This reminds me of
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POV Hot Wheels Track Ride Around House At Breakneck Speeds
This is a POV video from fun-loving adult and YouTuber Brutalmenace, who built a Hot Wheels track all around his house, complete with speed boosters so the car zips around as fast as possible. We didn’t have those speed boosters when I was a kid. We just had four pieces
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Exoskeletal Robotic Training Hand Helps Pianists Play Even Better
Developed by Shinichi Furuya and associates at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo, this exoskeletal hand was originally designed to help train the muscles of those with limited use of their digits. Well now they’ve discovered it can also help take accomplished pianists to the next level. Heck yeah,
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Pet Octopus Opens Tightly Closed Jar Within Moments Of First Interaction
This is a video of pet octopus Marty (who I believe is an Octopus bimaculatus, aka Verrill’s two-spot octopus) opening a closed jar just moments after being exposed to one for the first time. That’s impressive. How we knew to turn it is beyond me, and certainly beyond my roommate,
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