In the event you manage to get one of your lowly pawns all the way across the board in a game of chess, you have to promote it to another piece so it can continue to battle. Most commonly chosen is the queen on account of her maneuverability. And this

Designed by inventor Kazuya Shibata, this is a video demonstration of a face shield that quickly closes above a user’s face in the event they drop their phone while scrolling in bed at night, preventing both the pain and personal embarrassment associated with such a drop. Alternatively, doomscroll on your

This is a video of disgusting monster (I’m just jealous) Mike Jack setting the Guinness World Record for most hot sauce consumption in 3 minutes, slurping down a respectable 1.123 kilograms (2.48 pounds) of Sriracha in 180 seconds. According to Guinness World Record Adjudicator Juliet Dawson, “It was one of

Because who hasn’t dreamed of piloting their own AT-AT walker through the side of a neighbor’s house, this is a video of engineer James Bruton constructing his own roughly 7-foot tall rideable AT-AT. It moves at a snail’s pace (even slower than in the movies), but I would still proudly

Presumably training to take down that wall behind him, this is a video of a man chopping over 120 bricks in a row using only his hand and a short concrete wall. Like the Energizer bunny, he just keeps going. Me? I would have stopped after just a few. “I’ll

These are two videos of the world’s first successful frontside and backside 2160s (six full rotations) on a snowboard. The backside (rotating clockwise if you’re riding with your left foot forward) 2160 was accomplished by Japanese teen snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara in 2023 (he was 16 at the time). The frontside

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

3DBenchy is a computer model of a small boat designed specifically for benchmark testing the accuracy and capabilities of 3D printers. And Youtuber Emily The Engineer decided to try 3D printing one large enough for a person to sit in, and, ideally, function as an actual boat. The final result