This is ‘Nanoscapes’ a short video shot by Kristina Dutton featuring butterfly wings captured with an electron microscope at magnifications up to 50,000X. That’s some series magnification. Most of the time I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. “Butterfly wings.” I like you, I really do, but you

This is an Instagram video of a man constructing a “quick and easy” carnival style spinning ride in his backyard using a tree and some lumber (which was also once trees). The ride features seating for four, and is powered by spinning the riders around the tree to build tension

This is a video of Nissan France setting the world record for highest bungee jump for a car, dropping a Nissan Qashqai e-Power from a height of 65m (213’3″). At first I thought it was lame because I assumed there wasn’t a driver inside, but I was wrong. Then I

This is a video of a striated frogfish (which looks like a character from Adventure Time) displaying its lure, a sort of natural fishing pole that can be extended from its “nose” and wiggle a very convincing worm-like appendage in front of it’s mouth to attract prey. Evolution is nuts.

Presumably amped about Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 16 (hooray?), Youtubers DIY Perks and Mrwhosetheboss decided to build the world’s largest iPhone, complete with an “88-inch OLED screen, a touchscreen overlay, an aluminum case and buttons, multiple cameras, a flash, and much more.” It will not fit in your

This is a video of a member of Malaysian dance group Budayawan performing a traditional Magunatip bamboo dance of the Murut people of Borneo, a former headhunter warrior tribe. It involves being blindfolded and dancing between bamboo poles that are constantly being clapped open and closed to the beat. It

Because nature is totally nuts, this is a video of a robotic spy fish infiltrating a millions-strong shoal of herring while they look for a place to lay and fertilize their eggs. The real fish constantly release flatulence from their swim bladders that sounds like clicking underwater, a behavior our

Because more shoes should be oversized like the ones clowns wear, footwear maker BB IMP is dropping a pair of sneakers that look like Bugs Bunny’s feet. The upper is grey suede, with giant rubber toes beneath. That’s fun. I mean, at least for entertaining at a kid’s birthday party.

Because scientists are an unending source of wild and crazy ideas, researchers at Cornell University and the University of Florence have developed a starfish shaped robot that’s controlled by the electrical signals generated by its onboard king oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus eryngii). I’m not going to lie, I did mistake those

This is a video of PPSS Group’s CEO donning one of the company’s stab-proof vests for a live demonstration at a trade show. The vest is made of a carbon fiber composite, and differs from bulletproof vests which are designed to flatten bullets but can allow a knife blade through.