This is a video released by jetpack manufacturer Gravity Industries of a ship-boarding exercise organized by the UK Royal Marines using its product. It’s similar to this previously seen footage they released, but better. And while certainly impressive, as commenter TheCureForHope pointed out on the last article, “Hopefully everyone they
This is a short video of what appears to be an Omni Hoverboard rider (previously) casually zipping down a street in Los Angeles. Is this legal? Probably not, but since when has that stopped anybody from doing anything in Los Angeles? Also, I like how the poster’s comment on Twitter
This is a video from a homeowner in Tecumseh, Michigan who says that she released her Roomba robot vacuum for the first time in her new house and what does it do? Draws a wiener on the carpet right in the middle of the living room. Now I thought Roombas
This is some drone follow footage of the latest iteration of Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru’s Omni Hoverboard, a standup hoverplatform powered by eight propellers generating about 40 horsepower. Catalin’s first prototype set a Guinness World Record for furthest distance traveled on a propeller-based hoverboard, with 275.9m (~905.2-feet). This version
This is a video from Walt Disney’s Imagineering department of the free-walking animatronic Baby Groot they’ve been developing. The first bit of the video is the progress they’ve made in recent years, but starting at 0:42 you can see it’s current state, which, admittedly, is pretty impressive (although he still
This is some home security cam footage of a wild turkey that started pecking at a welcome mat, and, after homeowner Tim was alerted of its presence by his Ring video doorbell, he uses the intercom to shoo the turkey away. Me? I would have invited it in, because I
Littering: it’s illegal in Japan. It’s also illegal here but you’d never guess it from all the McDonald’s bags blowing across the road like tumbleweeds. Enter Keisuke Nakagome and Yusuke Matsumoto, the litter collecting samurai of Shibuya, Japan. Every weekend they descend upon the city and flamboyantly collect litter with
Because the robot apocalypse is literally right around the corner, this is a video of Youtuber Warped Perception putting a new $1,000 Skydio 2 autonomous tracking drone through its paces. He tests it in three scenarios: tracking a person running through the woods, tracking him as he drives his Supra