Hey you guuuuys, in their unending quest to snatch up all my Christmas money before my grandma even sends it, LEGO has announced an official The Goonies build set in the form of One-Eyed Willy’s pirate ship as seen at the end of the movie (plus some of the booby

These are a couple videos highlighting the journey of father/son team Mike and Luke Bell as they attempt to reclaim the world record for fastest quadrocopter drone after their record was snatched from them last year. There’s a lot of interesting discussion about the engineering and testing of the drone,

This is a video of a man spinning himself into the Matrix on a piece of playground equipment. We didn’t have that particular apparatus on my school playground growing up. We had seesaws, swings, a jungle gym, a metal slide that squeaked the skin right off your legs as you

This is a video of Foggy Mountain Spaceship performing a challenging 5/4 time cover of John Carpenter’s Halloween theme on a trio of banjos. It’s a tasty jam. Really made me want to rewatch Halloween. I’m not sure I’ll be able to find the time though, my girlfriend already has

This is a video of cats experiencing thick water for the first time. What’s thick water? Water that’s had a thickening agent like xanthan gum or modified cornstarch added to make it more viscous for people with dysphagia (a medical condition that makes it difficult to swallow non-viscous liquids without

This is a video of Philip Kaplan discussing the headphones he built with an integrated CD player on top. You can also store extra CDs on spindles attached to the earphones. It includes a remote control, battery pack, LCD display, and a spot to display the CD case of what

This is a video of the fun-loving Aussies of How Ridiculous dropping thousands of soccer balls and bouncy balls from a drop tower, crane, and helicopter. This is the kind of thing I wish I did for a living. But nooooo, I have to show up at a factory and

This is a video of four Jetson ONE flying cars (actually single-seat electric octocopters that look like, and may actually be, flying coffins) racing each other and performing other aerial maneuvers during the ‘Jetson Air Games’ at UP Summit 2025 in Bentonville, Arkansas. While admittedly pretty wild to watch, I