This is a video of Sean Hodgin’s latest iteration of his ‘Become Anyone’ project, which involves developing a face mask that could, potentially, replace your face with anybody else’s. In case you couldn’t tell by the screenshot, the project clearly has a long way to go, because that face is

Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?

Because there’s nothing you can’t do with LEGO, this is a video from the Brick Experiment Channel (previously), this time engineering LEGO cars to cross increasingly narrower bridges, eventually crossing just a string stretched between two tables. The solutions to balancing the vehicles while crossing the bridges are quite ingenious.

This is a worthwhile (and trippy) stop-motion animation created by animator Daren Jannace using the 10,946 Post-It notes he drew over the course of a year (30 a day x 365, minus 4 for some reason). The soundtrack is audio taken from his phone during the year of animation. Played

Created by Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions, the Passive-Aggressive Punching Bag affixes to the side of your desk and plugs into your computer, generating a randomly selected passive-aggressive opening line to emails with a simple punch. A great idea, I just wish it continued to compose an angry email the

In the event you manage to get one of your lowly pawns all the way across the board in a game of chess, you have to promote it to another piece so it can continue to battle. Most commonly chosen is the queen on account of her maneuverability. And this

Designed by inventor Kazuya Shibata, this is a video demonstration of a face shield that quickly closes above a user’s face in the event they drop their phone while scrolling in bed at night, preventing both the pain and personal embarrassment associated with such a drop. Alternatively, doomscroll on your

Above: Producing an indigo colored plasma by radiating an indium alloy. This is a video of Youtuber/electrical mad scientist StyroPyro constructing and experimenting with a 20,000 watt microwave oven, roughly 20x more powerful than the one above your stove. It can fully cook a frozen Hot Pocket in 10 seconds,