After seven years of construction, artist Robert Wechsler has finally completed assembly of a giant cube made from 100,000 pennies. Each individual penny has four notches cut from its sides at 90-degree angles so they could be assembled K’Nex style into sheets, then stacked into this 540-pound cube. Damn, 100,000
Because some people like to see a bad idea carried out to completion (I can respect that), this is a video of Colin Furze constructing an ass-mounted flamethrower. Powered by an aerosol can and electric ignitor, the flamethrower is mounted in the rear of his pants so he can produce
Because who doesn’t wouldn’t ketchup that looks exactly like kid’s glue, Youtuber and food scientist Barry Lewis decied to try to make his own transparent ketchup after repeatedly being sent a faked photo of the clear condiment. In the end he makes a pretty decent version (recipe HERE), the main
Best known for leaving oily marks all over the walls and getting me in trouble, sticky hands are classic 25¢ vending machine (probably $1 now) toys that don’t taste anywhere as good as they look, and I’ve tried every color. In this video, Youtuber Nate from the Internet melts 1,000
This is a clip of the painted eyeballs being applied to dolls during a multi-step process at a toy factory in Adana, Turkey. They start with a base of white (sclera), then add a ring of blue iris before completing the look with black pupil and eyelash on the side.
This is a tour of the absolutely massive 120,000 piece Disneyland Pirates Of The Caribbean water ride reconstructed in LEGO by Joel Nueber. The ride features all the different sections of the actual ride (including waterfall drop!), and includes a water-filled river (made waterproof with strips of pond liner) for
The brainchild of maker of things Ivan Miranda, this is a giant 3D printed marble clock that tells time using black and white marbles as a dot matrix display. The clock features a marble elevator, at the top of which it uses an array of infrared sensors to determine black
Because magic is everywhere, these are a couple videos of Japanese Youtuber Hoshizora Camping (turn captions on to follow along) constructing a ring to place around a metal secondary combustion stove that produces fire tornadoes with “woven” flames. How cool is that! Am I going to start a house fire