Because one of the benefits from working from home is working pantless, a lot of people join virtual meetings in their underwear. OR LESS. Me? I always keep my camera off because my coworkers do NOT want to see what I’m doing, which is usually eating cereal out of the
Note: Video is not for the easily motion sick. This is a first person POV video from a projectile launched by SpinLaunch, an upstart company that aims (for the heavens!) to shoot small satellites and other space-bound equipment into the atmosphere using a giant centrifuge (aka suborbital mass accelerator). The
This is a video from a drone light show at Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas depicting a Pokemon card pack being opened, then Pikachu battling Charizard, all performed by 250 synchronized drones with integrated lights. That’s pretty impressive. I wonder how many residents called the news/police reporting aliens. This
This is some remarkable AI-enhanced and colorized footage of San Francisco captured on April 14th, 1906 — just four days prior to the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that destroyed over 80% of the city. For reference, even Godzilla’s destruction percentage isn’t that high. The journey takes on a trip down
This is a video of Tom Scott visiting robotics company Engineered Arts to meet his robotic doppelganger. The resemblance is uncanny decent. Honestly, Tom seems more impressed than I was, but he probably isn’t a jaded a$$hole. Plus he got to see it in person, and it was actually made
Because the future looks bleak, this is a video of a Xiaomi Cyberdog with a loudspeaker mounted on (read: taped to) its back patrolling the streets of Shanghai and broadcasting a COVID lockdown announcement. The Cyberdog, not to be confused with Boston Dynamics’ Spot, is able to navigate the city
In go go gadget ROFLcopter news, this is a video of Ascend Dynamics testing its SkyPak V1 electric powered ‘jetpack’. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I agree, the wood support makes it look that much cooler — like you’re a flying human mailbox. The non-jetpack is actually powered
This is a beautifully flown drone tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft collection on display in Dayton, Ohio. FUN FACT: That’s where my brother was born. In Dayton — not in the Air Force museum. Being born IN the museum would have been wild. Of