30-year old Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created a virtual reality headset that kills a user in real life if they die in-game, by exploding their head. Finally, the high-stakes video gaming I’ve been waiting for! Some more information about the headset while I wonder what Facebook’s next move will
Built by Youtuber Wiz’s Woodwork, this mirrored coffee table gives the illusion of an endless mineshaft below, constructed using a cleverly designed infinity mirror. Pretty cool. Even cooler? An infinity gauntlet. And if I had one you better believe I’d be winning Powerball tonight. Plus probably try keeping the beat
These are several videos of a sugar glider named Titan Bool leaping from heights to glide and land on his owner’s hand. For those of you unfamiliar, sugar gliders are small gliding marsupials native to Australia, and can glide like flying squirrels (which are rodents and not related, but an
This is a short clip from The Pirate, released in 1948, of a man kissing a woman after flipping the cigarette he’s smoking back into his mouth, then flipping it back out after the kiss to cover her face in a cloud of smoke. Or maybe he’s just blowing her
In a piece of art certainly not imitating my life, this is a worthwhile video of French artist and dancer Yoann Bourgeois repeatedly falling off a set of stairs and bouncing right back up again. The whole performance is incredibly well orchestrated with such fluidity. And how towards the he
These are a couple videos of trained hawks in flight squeezing between two people standing head-to-head. That’s NUTS with a capital n. Oh wow, and capitals U, T, and S too now that I look back at what I wrote. It’s hard to remember sometimes. My brain isn’t what it
This is a video of a jumping jack style ground compactor hopping around on its own like Luxo Jr. at the beginning of Pixar movies. That’s cool. Of course if I was that guy in the video I’d be sticking my foot underneath it every time it jumped because I
This is ‘Dolly Daisy In Hearts And Flowers’, an incredibly creepy 1930’s stop motion video from Warner Bros featuring two male suitors (from what I could gather, a sailor and business magnate) both vying for the affection of Daisy after spotting her changing and flexing like a bodybuilder in her