This is a video included in the extras of a Blu-Ray copy of Back To The Future featuring actors (Billy Zane, C. Thomas Howell, Jon Cryer, and Ben Stiller) in 1984 auditioning for the role of Marty McFly. There’s also clips of Peter DeLuise auditioning for Biff Tannen and Kyra
This is a video of former NASA engineer Mark Rober pitting a Tesla’s camera-based autopilot feature against a Lexus’s LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, which uses lasers to measure distances and create 3D maps) to see which operates safer. The Lexus passes all six tests (stationary child in road, running
Because percussion makes everything better (besides a headache), this is a video of musician Joe Porter (previously) performing the iconic guitar lick from Weezer’s ‘Buddy Holly’ on 31 unusual instruments. “In a row?” IN A ROW. It was a fun watch. Personally, I’m only master of one instrument: my voice.
Take a step into my way-back machine and watch (and listen to) an Intel 486DX2 (with 32MB RAM and 500MB hard disk storage!) booting up. That thing was state of the art when it was released 30 years ago. Now it’s like a fossilized dinosaur turd. We sure have come
This is a video of the fun-loving Aussies of Youtube channel How Ridiculous living my dream and overinflating a variety of different objects until they explode. Objects include hot water bottles (this guy: hold my beer), 5 gallon buckets, a variety of different sports balls, and an exercise ball. The
This is a timelapse of a 3D printer platform built by Youtuber multipoleguy that adds an additional two axes (not golden though) to a typical 3-axis printer’s movement, allowing prints “with up to a 70º overhang in all directions, reducing the need for support structures.” That’s something. Something perfect for
This is a Guinness World Record video highlighting the brick collection of Tulsa, Oklahoma great grandfather Clem Reinkemeyer, who has the largest collection of unique bricks in the world, with a respectable 8,882. I feel like he handles them all a little too haphazardly, but they’re his bricks, if he
This is a 3D visualization created by Global Data featuring the scale of various objects in the universe, beginning with subatomic particles, then covering animals and manmade objects and landmarks we’re all familiar with here on earth before traveling into space, ending with the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. The Great