This is a video example of giant steel spheres being hydroformed with explosives. What the hell is explosive hydroforming? I’m glad you asked, but I’m even more glad the Youtube video description provided an explanation: Explosive hydroforming, also known as HERF (High Energy Rate Forming) or exploform, is a striking

Ever wonder what’s in the Big Mac you’re eating? Of course not, that’s exactly what you try not to do when you’re eating fast food. But to ruin that for you is this Fast Food Chemistry clip from Insider, where a Big Mac is recreated using all 54 ingredients that

This is a video of musician and Youtuber Deden Noy performing Rush’s 1981 banger ‘Tom Sawyer’ on his homemade drum kit, which he crafted out of paint cans and water jugs and scrap metal. I also included his cover of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, because what Deden lacks in

This is a video of lover of unusual instruments Nicolas Bras (previously) constructing and playing a mouth violin based on the k’ni (aka Vietnamese mouth violin) used by the Jarai people of Vietnam. The instrument uses the player’s mouth as a resonator, “which enables the instrument to imitate certain qualities

Aluminum cans: they can be recycled indefinitely because they never deteriorate during their lifespan or the recycling process. And this is a video from How It’s Made detailing how they’re made. The process may surprise you, particularly if you thought the process involved magic because a wizard selling canned love

This is a video demonstration of MIT’s ‘LaserFactory’, a laser cutter that’s been modified into an fabrication platform capable of producing functional devices. In this video, it cuts the pieces necessary to build a drone, then pours silver into the circuit traces, attaches its electronic components, solders the silver in

This is a video of very smart engineer Shane Wighton of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here (previously: the robotic barber he made to cut his hair with actual scissors — okay maybe he’s not that smart) constructing a robotic pool cue system capable of making shots for you, all you

This is a video of engineer and Youtuber The Q building and demonstrating a sitting on air illusion, which involves constructing a leg brace that can double as a chair after being slid into a hidden bracket on the floor. Even knowing how it’s done it’s a cool illusion to