Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?

Because there’s nothing you can’t do with LEGO, this is a video from the Brick Experiment Channel (previously), this time engineering LEGO cars to cross increasingly narrower bridges, eventually crossing just a string stretched between two tables. The solutions to balancing the vehicles while crossing the bridges are quite ingenious.

Created by Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions, the Passive-Aggressive Punching Bag affixes to the side of your desk and plugs into your computer, generating a randomly selected passive-aggressive opening line to emails with a simple punch. A great idea, I just wish it continued to compose an angry email the

These are a couple videos from Vancouver Island woodworker Connor Nijsse, who discovered a wall stuffed with 110 stuffed animals to act as insulation in a farmhouse he was renovating. Hey, whatever works. Sure your children are going to be upset when you start taking their Beanie Babies, but would

This is a video from long-haul truck driver alexnnino demonstrating the assembly of an emergency toilet he keeps in the cabin in the event nature calls but he isn’t near a phone (read: restroom) to answer that call. It’s basically a folding metal stand with a toilet seat on top

This is a video from Michigan of an SUV with a new flatscreen television strapped to the roof rack with bungee cords, and that television desperately trying to take to the skies. Why they didn’t just put the seats down in the back of their car we’ll never know, but

Designed by inventor Kazuya Shibata, this is a video demonstration of a face shield that quickly closes above a user’s face in the event they drop their phone while scrolling in bed at night, preventing both the pain and personal embarrassment associated with such a drop. Alternatively, doomscroll on your

Presumably taking a little breather from synchronized dancing, this a video of a Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot completing tasks fully autonomously. That means absolutely no human intervention. Which is a relief, because I was worried robots might not be able to complete their tasks after exterminating us all. Some