This is a video demonstration of an onion cutting and peeling machine that automatically orients onions to horizontally cut their tops and bottoms off, then rips their paper skins off with a blast of high pressure air. How about that! And here I thought onions were all peeled by hand

These are two videos from MoriROBO, a Japanese robotic food handling company, demonstrating The Q Crepe Robot, a countertop robotic crepe maker that spins crepes like your favorite records. But, instead of producing tasty jams, it produces delicious crepes. Yum! So, if you were wondering why I’ve already packed on

Because some people actual welcome the robot apocalypse with open, soon to be severed arms, some aspiring war criminal went and strapped a Russian PP-19 Vityaz submachine gun to the top of a radio controlled robot dog they bought off AliExpress for $3,000. As far as good ideas go, this

This is a video of an auto-playing hammered dulcimer performing a lovely rendition of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’ repopularized by Stranger Things. You know, when I was younger I always imagined myself rich enough to be able to employ a harp player that would

This is a video demonstration of a Sparck Technologies packaging machine creating a perfectly sized box for a product (in this case a loose Peppa Pig plushie), using 3D imaging to calculate its precise dimensions. It then packages the item in the box for shipment. How about that! Of course

In Metal Gear Solid news, this is a video from the fun-loving Finnish couple of Beyond The Press at a factory to see how a 10-ton bevel gear is machined. How are they machined? Very slowly, and it takes about two weeks to finish one gear. For reference, if I

This is some footage from an aluminum extrusion line where an overpressure event causes a catastrophic and fiery failure, opening a portal to a demon dimension in the process. I….I think I’ve visited that dimension before. Not a good time. Thankfully (and amazingly), nobody was injured in the incident, which

This is some footage (that leaves something to be desired, namely a better view and an ultra-highspeed camera) of the US Air Force testing a rocket sled traveling at 6,400ft/sec. For reference, a mile is 5,280-feet, so this thing is doing 6,599MPH! That’s Mach 8.6. Holy shit! You know it’s