This is a video of ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober discussing, building, and putting his Glitter Bomb 4.0 into action. Improvements to the design implemented this year include a pneumatic system that launches the lid off the package, a car horn blaring, as well as an auto-feeding glitter dispersal system that

In ‘I’ll just make my family watch this on the living room TV and save myself a trip to an amusement park’ news, this is a POV video of a Hot Wheels car traveling down a very impressively built track that spans 290-feet down three stories of a home. Similar

This is a video of the Guinness World Record holder for largest Rube Goldberg machine, an entirely overcomplicated machine that takes four and a half minutes and 427 individual steps to turn on a light. For reference, I usually get the job in a single step by yelling, “Hey —

Because physics are fun, this is a video of science experimenter NightHawkInLight creating a glow-in-the-dark pendulum swing using metal nuts (like Optimus Prime’s) covered in fluorescent paint and hanging from different lengths of wire under a blacklight. The results are hypnotizing, and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if

This is artist Neil Mendoza’s ‘The Fragility Of Complexity’, a kinetic sculpture that consists of a series of rotating hammers that just barely miss breaking light bulbs as the the circle around their axis, the light bulbs swinging perfectly in between the hammer’s head and grip as they pass. Per

This is a video from Youtuber Backyard Racer featuring a Wheels track built over the course of a month that starts off in a treetop (which the car accesses via motorized gondola), and proceeds through numerous jumps, loops, and speed boosters, and even features a water feature. How about that!

This is a video from (I believe) Russia of an elderly man using a homemade motorized pulley system operated with a remote control to access his 3rd floor apartment via the unit’s balcony. That…does not look like it would be up to code around here. But hey, whatever works. Although

This is a VICE video highlighting the work of Wales-based paper sculptor Polly Verity, who creases and folds paper with the very best of them. Per Polly: “The actual act of putting a crease into a piece of paper, committing to that crease, and just running along that line —