This is a 5-minute timelapse video of various skyscrapers being constructed around Singapore from 2012 – 2020. The video is the lovechild of Keith Loutit, who “took hundreds of thousands of pictures of the city over eight years, and then aligned and combined them into 3000 time-lapse sequences to show
This is a video of Youtuber Mattias Krantz building and playing what is allegedly the world’s first gas-powered guitar. Move over, electricity, this guitar runs on hydrocarbons! The result is actually a lot cooler looking than it sounds, which is like the lovechild of an electric guitar and leaf blower.
Sponsored by the video game Warframe, this is a video of inventor Colin Furze testing a giant gimbal he built that allows a user to perform wild jumps like in a low-gravity environment. The gimbal uses counterweights and hydraulics to achieve the feat, allowing Colin to jump from one stack
These are a couple videos of a raven named Odin (of course) at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, producing abstract paintings, using her beak to pick up and use a brush. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind having an Odin original hanging in my home. “That was painted
This is a video of self proclaimed science enthusiast and race car driver Chris Rollins constructing and testing the world’s fastest garbage can, a 12HP trike in a green plastic bin that manages to hit a blistering 63MPH. Now, I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but that is
This is a video of mad engineer Shane of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here (previously) attaching a chainsaw to an industrial robotic arm and programming it to carve a dog sculpture out of a block of foam. Its first effort is an absolute disaster, but the second dog it produces
This is a very tasty jam (think boysenberry, but grown and jarred in space) created by the Auralnauts featuring every utterance of “This Is The Way” in The Mandalorian seasons 1 – 3. Obviously, this will be stuck in my head for weeks. As if my girlfriend doesn’t already hear
A feet of modern engineering, this motorized electric skateboard built by Youtuber Vagabond Works (vagabonds typically don’t work is the thing) moves on 24 legs inspired by the Strandbeest kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen. It’s totally rideable and steerable too, featuring two motors powering its legs, and a 661 pound