This is a short video from Youtuber Rescue & Restore, demonstrating the functionality of a 19th century candle snuffer, a device that automatically extinguishes a candle after it’s melted to a certain point. Pretty clever. And here I thought the only way to extinguish candles was to wait for the

Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, these noise-cancelling headphones are able to cancel all outside noise except for a person’s voice through the power of AI. You just push a button on the side of the phones to train the AI on a person’s vocal patterns, and BOOM,

This is a video of bird rehabilitator Gary Zammit of Cornwall, England’s Screech Owl Sanctuary and Parkk dressed as a lollipop ghost and feeding an abandoned baby stork with a puppet. That goodness that baby’s eyes are still developing, because that puppet is terrifying. The bird, which was abandoned by

This is the music video for ‘The Spark’, a song created by a group of Irish tweens as part of the youth rap initiative Rhyme Island in Cork, Ireland. It was released ahead of of June 15th’s Cruinniú na nÓg, an annual “free day of creativity for young people” in

In what is arguably the best case I’ve seen made for me buying a kayak, this is a video of a group of fun-lovers speeding down an empty drainage ditch in Lion’s Bay, British Columbia and into the ocean, where they surprisingly weren’t immediately eaten by sharks. Whenever I dip

To demonstrate the precision of its new Microsurgery Assistance Robot, Sony used the device to delicately stitch up a single kernel of corn. What that corn did to require stitches, I’m not sure, but I suspect it involved an accident with one of those spiked corn on the cob holders

Proving that nails are much less dangerous to your tires when they’re made of them, this is a video of the automotive maniacs of Garage 54 driving a Mercedes G Wagon on custom tires made of incredibly long nails. They perform reasonably well in the snow, but quickly get bent

In I don’t ever want to be that cold news, this is a video of Red Bull kayaker Aniol Serrasolses dropping down a 60-foot glacial waterfall in the Arctic Circle near Svalbard, Norway. It takes Aniol over seven hours of hiking to get into position for the 2 second ride