Take a trip down memory lane all the way back to 2001 with this BBC news report about the upcoming release of cameraphones — phones that can take and send photos in addition to text messages. The future! I love how the multimedia message the guy sends in the video

Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off!

This is a short video of a man turning an empty Jack Daniels bottle into a gin glass. Wow, drinking gin out of a whiskey bottle, is nothing sacred? Just how drunk are you? Honestly, I’m not sure why anybody would want to drink gin out of anything — gin

Because those food delivery robots have the spacial awareness of something with absolutely piss-poor spatial awareness (I’m a wordsmith), this is a video of a little food delivery bot getting hit by a train after blatantly ignoring the railroad crossing and trying to wheel itself across the tracks with a

Currently an already funded Kickstarter campaign, Moonwalkers are $1,100+ motorized shoes that can increase a person’s walking speed up to 250%, from around 2.5MPH to 6 or 7MPH. Each strap-on shoe has eight wheels (so there’s no need to balance), which provide an extra glide after each step. Some more

Note: If you’re looking for some bitchin’ desktop backgrounds you can get super high-res versions of the Hubble’s 1995 image HERE, 2004 image HERE, and James Webb’s most recent shot HERE. Now let’s play space rangers! The Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope’s 1995 and 2004

Hopefully named Johnny 5 Appleseed or its creators completely blew it, this is a video of a robotic apple harvester picking about 30 apples in a minute, using the latest in apple-identifying technology and its six suction-cupped hands to get the job done. That’s cool. For reference, I’ve never actually

Presumably to experience what snake-vision is like, Youtuber Louis Weisz went and lived 50-hours straight wearing infrared thermal imaging goggles. He performs some everyday tasks like shopping, cooking, and riding a scooter to see how well he can operate with an infrared perspective. That’s something. You know what would have