Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found that adding robotic googly eyes that turn to gaze at pedestrians the car has identified help make them safer, by letting humans know the car has recognized them and (hopefully) won’t run them over. Plus the cars look way friendlier too —

This is a video highlighting the work of JEM FX, a visual effects company that specializes in the destruction of vehicles in movies. A lot of their work involves structurally weakening vehicles (e.g. cutting the support pillars of a car’s roof) so that they get damaged the way they want

This is a short video of an incredibly fast conveyor belt sorting machine doing its thing, its thing being sorting objects into specific cardboard boxes, presumably to still get sent to the wrong address or lost in the mail after all its hard work. Where are the sex toys I

Because why not make mowing the lawn as enjoyable as possible, maker of things Matt Thompson created this custom push lawnmower upgrade, featuring a beer holder (and bottle opener), as well as places for his chips and salsa, and a phone holder for watching sports. There also appears to be

This is a video showing the movement of the Taipei 101’s tuned mass damper during the recent 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the country. The tuned mass damper is a massive 16-foot, 660-metric ton sphere suspended between the 88th and 92nd floors of the building that swings to counteract any movement

Because yellow tape means nothing to a robot, this is a video of a Serve autonomous food delivery bot casually entering a cordoned off crime scene in Los Angeles to deliver its food payload. I guess Serve forgot to include some police protocol programming for the robot. Obviously, it’s only

Because it’s Taco Tuesday, this is a video of design and useability expert (I’m just an amateur myself) Dan Formosa discussing and rating five different taco related cooking gadgets based on their functionality. The results may surprise you. Especially if you expected them to all be useless turds. As a

This is a video of a good Samaritan attempting to fix a malfunctioning traffic/crosswalk light and bringing the whole pole down in the process. From what I could gather, the pole was being supported entirely by that tiny stick at its base, the same way you’d prop up a box