Because ideas come in all shapes, sizes, and practicality (this one ranks incredibly low in practicality), this is a video of Drew Dirksen testing the pool float he made entirely out of red Solo cups, super glue, and packing tape. Does it float? Yes. Can it support a child? Yes.
Red Bull teamed up with the drone experts at Dutch Drone Gods to develop a real missile of a drone that can keep up with F1 cars in order to capture chase footage. Some more info about the project while I repeatedly fly the cheap drone I got for Christmas
This is a clip from How It’s Made detailing how those overpriced pre-packaged sandwiches you find at gas stations are made. SPOILER: not in any way that makes them more appetizing, I don’t care how much you love robot mayo. Those sandwiches are rarely good, even when you pay $18
Because delicious ideas are all around us (I melted a Snickers bar on toast for breakfast this morning), this is a video of knife sharpener Ryota Togishi creating a grilled cheese sandwich using ultra-thin slices of bread and seven pieces of cheese in a panini press. Togishi previously made what
This is a clip of a man (who I swear I posted on Geekologie back in the day — glad to see he’s still at it) demonstrating his complete disregard for gravity by balancing a number of glass bottles on each other in precarious ways. He also does some blindfolded
Pastry artist and chocolatier Amaury Guichon is back at it (it being absurd amounts of shaped chocolate, previously), this time constructing a massive LEGO minifig of himself entirely out of his semi-sweet medium of choice. Tell me, if you were tasked with eating that entire thing as quickly as possible,
This is a tour detailing the process in which zinc-carbon AA batteries are manufactured at a Chinese factory, which can produce up to 500,000 batteries a day. That’s a lot of batteries! And what percentage of those do you think end up in a person’s butt? My guess is the
This is a phenakistiscope drawn by artist and musician Yohei Kisanuki featuring a bunch of stick figures climbing up a large set of steps. Or, when played counterclockwise, climbing down the same steps. Are you a climbing up or climbing down kind of person? I’m a sit and take a