This is a video of Robert ‘Rocketman’ Maddox taking his valveless pulsejet powered green lawn chair out for a spin. The chair was actually Robert’s grandmother’s chair from the 1960’s. Heck yeah, I repurpose family heirlooms all the time. I like how there’s nothing between Robert and the road in

This is a video of a steel mill producing the world’s longest pieces of rebar (the length seen above isn’t even half as long as it eventually becomes) for use in construction. Or, if you’re playing a survival zombie game like Dead Island, creating makeshift weapons. I’m playing Dead Island

This is a video of Youtuber How To Make Everything constructing the sawmill detailed in Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebook in 1478, using only tools and methods that existed back then (read: no power tools, makes his own nails). He does use a water pump to replicate a river though to

This is a video of Joseph of Joseph’s Machines (previously) demonstrating the elaborate alarm clock and human car wash was he constructed to get him out of bed, washed, dressed, and out the door in just under two minutes. That’s impressive. For reference, it generally takes me about six hours

This is a video from the Diesel House museum in Denmark of its still functional B&W 2000 8-cylinder diesel engine starting, which was the world’s largest when it was built in 1933 through the 1960’s. The gigantic engine measures approximately 81 feet long, 41 feet tall, weighs 1,400 tons (almost

Remember the previously posted infinite LEGO domino loop machine? If I’m being honest, I only barely did. When I saw this video a dim light went off in the back of my brain, and I had to cautiously make my way towards it (keeping an eye out for where I

Because ‘I wonder what that would look like in ultra-slow motion’ is the name of the Slow Mo Guys’ very lucrative game, this is a video of tattoo guns doing their thing to transparent blocks of synthetic skin, filmed at 20,000 frames per second. It looks pretty much just how

This is a video of Round Table, a kinetic sculpture created by South Korean artist U-ram Choe, where 18-headless straw figures appear to squat and stand to balance a single rubber band “head” on the table atop their backs, and prevent it from rolling off. Wow. Wow wow wow. This