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 —
Note: If you search for NASA DART on Google you get an Easter Egg. NASA successfully smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft traveling at 14,000 MPH in an attempt to alter its trajectory in a first-ever test of planetary defense, should an asteroid ever be discovered that’s on a collision
An insult to pastry chefs the world over, the Bakon Cake Decorator (officially the Bakon Piston Depositor with Cake Decorating Option) can spread the icing on layered cakes with enough precious and evenness to presumably avoid any 1-star Yelp reviews. That’s cool, but I prefer my cakes iced the old
Hot on the flying heels of his previously posted Superman toy attached to a drone video come these ones from Petr N of an X-wing making an improvised Death Star Trench Run, and a speeder bike zipping around in the forests of Endor. I don’t know about you, but it
Because music is everywhere (except my apartment building, which is a cacophony), this is a video of musician Publio Delgado remixing the sound of a dripping faucet into several different styles of musical groove. And speaking of grooves– “You’re going to tell us how you got yours back?” God no,
This is a video of South Korean Youtuber 3D Sanago using a 3D printing pen to craft an impressive Blastoise figure, then adding all the necessary components to make it a functional humidifier. That’s cool. Now make me a showerhead that looks like Magikarp! That’s always been a dream of
This is a video of a snowmobiler making the most of the offseason by riding his mount on a lake, exiting the water to perform a twisty flip off a ramp before returning to his unnatural habitat. Just like Billy Currington sings, “God is great, beer is good, and people
This is a video of some unassuming guy in a Napoleon Dynamite Vote For Pedro t-shirt performing Shaggy’s ‘Angel’ at karaoke (in a traditional in front of the dartboards dive-bar setup) and summoning the spirit of Shaggy himself for the performance. I did not expect that. Also, if there was