This is a video of Youtuber Sabatkay Projects constructing and testing a relatively simple rifle he built that shoots knives like a slingshot. It doesn’t seem too complicated, which means I’ll probably try building my own this weekend, with far less impressive, but far more dangerous results. “I’ll warm up
Proof that if you eat enough chips, anything is possible (I’ve been telling my mom for years!), this is a video of Eric and Tony G of Youtube channel EMCproductions constructing a marching band style drum set out of empty Pringles cans. The cans were all cut to different lengths
Because normal candles aren’t nearly enough of a fire hazard (my past landlords would disagree), this is a video of Evan and Katelyn of appropriately named Youtube channel Evan and Katelyn making and lighting a 63-pound, 1,000 wick candle. The result reminds me of a fire in one of those
This is a video documenting Youtuber Jake Carlini’s quest to build a pair of roller blades using two kid’s bikes. He starts with the version seen above, which proves impractical and basically immobile, even after lowering the bindings and adding training wheels. He then builds a pair with each skate
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
Because who needs wind, this is a video of kite-flier Spence “Watty” Watson flying a custom kite he built for the indoor audience at the recent 2023 South Padre Island Kite Fest in Texas. How do you fly a kite indoors with no wind? You run around, because you are
In a step towards playing air guitar and actually having sound come out and shock the people watching, this is a video of Tim Sway attempting to build a ‘0% wood’ acoustic guitar, constructed almost entirely out of clear acrylic plastic with metal hardware. But how does it sound —
This is a video of a cosplayer dressed as 16-bit pixelated Samus in a Metroid Dread skin of her Super Metroid armor created by Dan of Dan Cartell Art, with the addition of the spinning morph ball made by @ccamp88.rupk. Man, I still remember at the end of the original