An alleged glitch in Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ feature has led numerous people in the Richmond, Texas area to the door of resident Scott Schuster, who then has to explain to them that he doesn’t have their phone. Sounds like a great place to set up shop with a trench
A feet of modern engineering, this motorized electric skateboard built by Youtuber Vagabond Works (vagabonds typically don’t work is the thing) moves on 24 legs inspired by the Strandbeest kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen. It’s totally rideable and steerable too, featuring two motors powering its legs, and a 661 pound
Proof that distance means nothing to true friendship, these are a couple videos of BFFs Sadie and Rollo catching up by whining and howling at each other over FaceTime. Sadie and Rollo used to live together, but after their owners got places of their own further away, they now FaceTime
Building on the success of its predecessors, the SpyraThree is a fully automatic water gun that can blast 30ml water squirts up to 30 feet (50 feet with a sniper ‘power shot’). The battery powered gun (USB rechargable) can reload itself in just 10 seconds by submerging the barrel in
These are several videos from the Slow Mo Guys shot at a blistering 90,000 frames per second, then played back at 25 FPS, stretching every one second of action into an hour. Highlights include Dan getting smacked in the face with a soccer ball, a bullet tearing a playing card
This is a Great Big Story interview with Australian voice actor Karen Jacobsen, jokingly known as “the only woman men will take directions from.” Since 2002, Karen has been the voice of over 1-billion GPS devices and smartphone apps. Ha, I knew I recognized her from somewhere! She lives in
Because some people don’t actually like pumping gas (what’s wrong with them? The smell alone is worth it, not to mention the extra half gallon I can squeeze in the tank by pulling the nozzle almost all the way out), there’s an Autofuel robotic gas pump in operation at a
This is a side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of a cigarette lighter being lit, shot using four different Phantom highspeed cameras, capturing the action at 3,200FPS, 5,300FPS, 8,300FPS, and Matrix-speed 28,500FPS. That 28,500FPS footage doesn’t even look real. *touching earpiece* I’m being told it is though. “Who was that?” My fact-checker. “Wait —