Marble machines: I’ve been making them since my age was in the low single digits. Granted those were all made out of children’s wooden blocks and the marble usually got stuck somewhere I couldn’t see, but I consider myself an expert on the subject nonetheless. This is a very impressive

Ever wonder what it looked like inside a spinning CT scanner? Well wonder no more my curious friend (are you a cat?), because this is a video of exactly that. I always assumed it was just two wizards making a donut shape and pointing their wands at the patient, but

Built by inventive digital clock creator Hans Andersson, the Time Twister 5 is a digital time display that rotates its Rubik’s Cube (or Rubik’s Triangular Prism in this case) style pieces to change the time. Would I be proud to display this in my living room? Yes. Of course I’d

Built by inventor James Bruton, BinBot 9000 (apparently the 8000 model was total…garbage) is an autonomous trash receptacle that can come to you, that way you don’t miss trying to throw a banana peel in basketball style. The robot uses vision-assisted guidance and printed targets to identify its location and

This is a video of LEGOmaniac The Brick Wall demonstrating the impressively functional washing machine he constructed entirely out of LEGO. It even adds the water, detergent, and has a wringing machine and spin dryer attachments. That is impressive. Is there nothing you can’t build out of LEGO? I mean,

Seen here showing off the rolls made especially for giants, this is a video tour of the Marutomi Paper Co. factory in Japan, which produces millions of rolls of toilet paper every month. Me? Personally I use about four rolls a month, plus several emergency magazine pages and a sock

Built by LEGO fan Brandon Jones and displayed at the recent BrickCon 2022 in Seattle, this massive Super Mario Bros level features 14 motors to make the pieces really MOVE. And you know how I feel about moving. “You try to as little as possible throughout the day.” Fact! “And

Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off!