TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Moving Beerpong Robots: Challenge Accepted
The BRUU Moving Beerpong Robot is a small, wheeled robot designed to hold six 16-oz Solo cups on top and randomly move around the table while you play beerpong, adding an increased level of difficulty to the game. Thankfully, it’s outfitted with sensors so it doesn’t fall off the table
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Man Welds 15,000 Pound Fire-Breathing Steel Drogon Statue From Game Of Thrones
Inspired by Drogon from Game Of Thrones, this is a video of artist Kevin Stone discussing the 15,000 pound “life size” steel dragon statue he’s welding together. It also breathes fire, because what’s the point if it doesn’t? And while it might not be full grown Drogon size, he was
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Energy Efficient Robot Moves Like A Seal
Because robots and AI are all the rage as we ramp up preparations for a self-imposed robot apocalypse, this is a video of a robot developed by researchers at Chicago’s DePaul University that mimics a seal’s flopping locomotion to move forward. The researchers, led by mechatronic engineer Dimuthu Kodippili Arachchige,
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Guy Builds A Bunch Of Childhood Inventions (Suction Cup Boots, Laser Sword)
This is a video of Youtuber Allen Pan (previously) constructing a bunch of inventions his subscribers (and numerous other children) invented as kids, including (in order): suction cup boots for walking on the ceiling, a laser sword, plunger grapple gun, and lawnmower boots. Surprisingly, they actually all work better than
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Timelapse Of A Bunch Of Singapore Skyscrapers Being Built
This is a 5-minute timelapse video of various skyscrapers being constructed around Singapore from 2012 – 2020. The video is the lovechild of Keith Loutit, who “took hundreds of thousands of pictures of the city over eight years, and then aligned and combined them into 3000 time-lapse sequences to show
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A Sea Slug That Looks Just Like Shaun The Sheep
This is in image of a leaf sea slug (Costasiella kuroshimae) captured by underwater photographer Alex Mustard, revealing its uncanny resemblance to Shaun The Sheep. I mean minus the peacock feathers. Honestly, I think it’s just the face. Some more info from Alex, including the animals deceptively diminutive size: My
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‘Synthetic Summer’, An AI Generated Beer Commercial That Goes Off The Rails
This is ‘Synthetic Summer’ a beer commercial that was allegedly created entirely with artificial intelligence by creative firm Private Island using text-prompts via AI programs like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and ControlNet. Um, did those text prompts include “fire tornado” and “backyard human barbecue”? Or is this just a perfect example
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Man Builds And Plays A Gas Powered Guitar
This is a video of Youtuber Mattias Krantz building and playing what is allegedly the world’s first gas-powered guitar. Move over, electricity, this guitar runs on hydrocarbons! The result is actually a lot cooler looking than it sounds, which is like the lovechild of an electric guitar and leaf blower.
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Guy Sends Robotic R/C Car To Pet Store To Buy Fish Food
This is a video from a robotic R/C car that a guy outfitted to run errands for him, in this case speeding into the pet store with a note explaining he needs GloFish shark food, and having the money to pay for it. That’s cool, at least until somebody is
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21 Levels Of Pen Spinning
Do you spin your pen? I spin my pen. Usually while I’m watching myself on camera during online meetings I’m tuned out of. But enough about me being the model employee, this is a video from Wired of champion pen spinner Peter Davis breaking down the sport’s skills into 21
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