This is a clip from the BBC Earth/PBS series Big Pacific of David Attenborough narrating the efforts of a male white-spotted puffer fish as it creates an intricate mandala in the sand to attract a mate. The puffer works tirelessly with its fins 24 hours a day for a week
Not unlike the skywriting planes that use a similar technique to create strips of letters, maker of things Ryder Damen went and modded his truck to spray jets of water to print letters on the ground as he drives around like a giant dot-matrix printer. That’s cool. I want mine
This is a video of a Delton8 drum and sampler synthesizer that’s been built into a custom case with the addition of a ferrofluid suspended in a clear window that moves to the beat you’re creating. That’s wild, it looks like it’s about to come to life. And maybe with
Built by mountain biker and experimental bike maker Sam Pilgrim (previously), this is a video of a side-by-side tandem mountain bike where both riders get a pair of pedals and handlebars, but only the right-hand rider can steer and use the brakes. Obviously, if you’re a control freak, you’ll want
This is a video from bar managers Markus and Chris of London’s Fallow Restaurant, who each wore a GoPro to show their drink-making during a busy Friday lunch service. Is that a martini? Wait — why’s everybody drinking at lunch on a Friday?! Are these people unemployed? Why can’t I
These are several videos of “phantom” automated deck furniture created by Dr. Decks that appear right out of the deck flooring. Looks expensive. Also looks like another thing to go wrong. I like my furniture simple, and with as few moving parts as possible. “He claims he almost lost several
Note: Keep your volume in check, bowling ball cannon. Because some people have all the fun (leaving nothing but weekend crumbs for the rest of us), this is a video from the Ballistic High-Speed Youtube channel of a bowling ball cannon, capable of launching balls at up to 400ft/second. Over
17 months of design and experimentation in the making, this is a video of Youtuber Think Flight setting the world record for largest rubber band powered airplane, with a 16-foot wingspan flying machine. That’s cool, all my rubber band airplanes always ended up on the roof and me crying about