Because nothing quite screams robot apocalypse like a flying robotic spider, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s robotics department have developed just that, in the form of SPIDAR. What does SPIDAR stand for? Why ‘SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot’ of course! Jeez, use your brain.
Because soon the day will come when everything that shouldn’t exist, does, this is the FINGERring from artist Nadja Buttendorf: a ring that looks like a realistic finger. The bonus finger is made from silicone, and was designed to be cast in a color that matches its wearer’s skintone for
WARNING: Screaming, turn your volume down. In what I assume is a deleted scene from Ocean’s Eleven, this is a video of a squirrel hiding in the upper corner of a porch and immediately diving into the home as soon as the door is opened for a pizza delivery. That’s
These are a couple videos from the PGA’s Waste[d] Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona (where spectators start drinking at 9AM and go all day) of a mulleted streaker running across the course and bellyflopping into the water hazard on the 18th hole. He then swims across the pond before
This is a video of a man who looks like he goes to a climbing gym very briefly wearing a water balloon for a hat, filmed in ultra slow motion. The way it conforms to his head but doesn’t pop, that’s wild. Watching the footage at regular speed you wouldn’t
These are several shots and a video of the removal of 700 pounds of acorns that a pair of acorn woodpecker stashed in the wall of a Santa Rosa, California home. Nick Castro of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control was actually inspecting for mealworms when he discovered the nut hoard, and
Because who hasn’t dreamed of what it would look like swan diving off the tallest building in the world, this is a video from a drone flying down the exterior of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It’s hard to believe this is real. The building, and just Dubai in general.
Because people are, by nature, filthy animals, this is a shot of the floor behind Redditor FireRotor’s bed, where he throws his disposable contacts every night. I like the few that are clinging to the wall, like they think they’re better than the rest of those floor contacts. In his