This is a sizzle reel (think fajitas at Chili’s) for Hyundai Motor Group’s new Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a flat robotic platform on wheels that uses smart suspension and “eccentric wheel drive” powered by three motors in each wheel to keep its payload stabilized no matter the terrain. Some more

This is a video of the Guinness World Record holder for largest Rube Goldberg machine, an entirely overcomplicated machine that takes four and a half minutes and 427 individual steps to turn on a light. For reference, I usually get the job in a single step by yelling, “Hey —

This is artist Neil Mendoza’s ‘The Fragility Of Complexity’, a kinetic sculpture that consists of a series of rotating hammers that just barely miss breaking light bulbs as the the circle around their axis, the light bulbs swinging perfectly in between the hammer’s head and grip as they pass. Per

This is a video from the Faber-Castell pen manufacturing plant in Engelhartszell, Austria detailing how the “superfluorescent” Textliner 48 highlighter is made. The factory in Engelhartszell produces some 35-million pens and markers every year, and I suspect at least half of those eventually spend some time in a person’s butt.

This is a video of the all-electric Jetson ONE single-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) flying machine (seen here previously) taking a flight through the woods. And by flight through the woods I mean along a straight cleared path through the woods, not like the speeder bike chase scene on

This is a video of the Ingenuity rotorcraft (upper middle of screencap) flying above the Martian surface. Ingenuity, the first flying craft deployed by humans on another planet, flew approximately 700-feet at an altitude of 26-feet before landing. The footage, albeit relatively unimpressive to watch if you pretend this is

This is a video of Youtuber Handy Geng building and demonstrating his ingenious ‘BBQ Car’, a motorized piano that can be driven around WHILE PLAYING MUSIC AND BARBECUING. When you press a key the piano both plays a note AND spins the corresponding rotisserie skewer above. My God, such genius!

This is a video of the fun-loving Finns of the Hydraulic Press Channel using a 150-ton hydraulic press to drive a bunch of nails simultaneously, culminating with the pressing of 300 nails all at the same time, requiring some 100-tons of pressure to do so. For reference, that’s a lot