Seen here wasting perfectly good ammo by crying from the wrong eye (you have to focus!), this is a video demonstration of the Tear Gun, the brainchild of designer Yi Fei Chen while she was in design school that freezes a user’s tears for immediate reuse as biological weapons. Some
This is a video demonstration of MIT’s ‘LaserFactory’, a laser cutter that’s been modified into an fabrication platform capable of producing functional devices. In this video, it cuts the pieces necessary to build a drone, then pours silver into the circuit traces, attaches its electronic components, solders the silver in
This is a video of very smart engineer Shane Wighton of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here (previously: the robotic barber he made to cut his hair with actual scissors — okay maybe he’s not that smart) constructing a robotic pool cue system capable of making shots for you, all you
This is an incredible video just released by NASA of the Perseverance Rover’s touchdown on the Martian surface via Sky Crane (a crane that holds itself aloft via rockets while it lowers its payload to the ground). Some more details while I speculate where they actually filmed this in Arizona:
This is a compilation video from Kurihara, Japan’s Kurikoma-Kōgen railway station of bullet trains passing by at up to 200MPH in the snow. Could you imagine standing there? That would be terrifying. Especially if you were hoping to catch one of those trains. Me? I really don’t like traveling any
Because great ideas come in all shapes and sizes, including the size and shape of a phone with a tongue sticking out of it where you put your ear, the ‘Feel The Conversation’ phone created by designer Xianzhi Zhang translates speech into haptic feedback based on a caller’s intonation and
In today’s technology is tricky news, this is a video from a predominately virtual House Of Representatives Financial Services committee meeting about the latest COVID-19 relief bill starring Republican representative Tom Emmer appearing as a disembodied upside-down head due to an activated Zoom filter. Per one of his hip constituents:
This is a video from Guinness World Records of the world’s longest uninterrupted drone light display (26 minutes and 19 seconds), achieved with the use of 600 Agile Bee II drones by the EFYI Group in collaboration with Tianjin University in Tianjin, China. The display, which has been sped up