Because soon our backpacks won’t carry anything but video messages, this is a clip from Yihong Technology demonstrating their persistence of vision backpack, that uses a spinning 4-rotor fan with 510 rapidly blinking LEDs to display video. In this case, everyone’s favorite plumber, Mario. WHY he’s everyone’s favorite plumber is

This is a video of Heath Ledger’s Joker performance in The Dark Knight deepfaked by Youtuber GdaTyler VFX to be a makeup-free Heath Ledger. It’s kind of like a reverse deepfake. A FAKEDEEP. Did I just come up with something?! “No.” I didn’t think so, but I can never tell.

This is a painful to watch video of an AI-powered Ameca robotic bust from Engineered Arts using a custom Chat GPT 3 model to attempt to tell a joke. It does an absolutely horrible job, and just gets stuck in some sort of progressive 2 + 2 addition loop. Math

In other cruise ship news, this is a full 3D scan of the Titanic, created using over 700,000 individual stills of the wreckage, where it’s rested in its watery grave some 2+ miles deep in the Atlantic Ocean since 1912. The scan is the largest deep-water 3D project to date,

This is a video highlighting the latest interation of the Tesla Bot, a 5’8″, 125-pound humanoid robot developed by the electric car giant. The robots are powered by the same AI as the driver assistance programming found in Tesla vehicles. Currently, the bots are capable of roaming untethered to explore

Because who hasn’t dreamed of dying inside a giant tire with three of their friends, this is a video from Hunter Goodrich, who made a steel frame and harnesses to fit inside a giant 7-foot tire so four of his friends could ride inside it down a hill. This is

This is a video of mad engineer Shane of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here (previously) attaching a chainsaw to an industrial robotic arm and programming it to carve a dog sculpture out of a block of foam. Its first effort is an absolute disaster, but the second dog it produces

This is a chart detailing averages of how long it would take a modern hacker to brute force passwords of various lengths and complexity using hashed password hacking techniques. If you’re unfamiliar with hashed passwords and how they’re cracked, you can read all about the methodology used HERE. Based on