Floppy disks: they’re a thing of the past. And space: it’s the future. And, okay, my past, but I did grow up there. But enough about how stars are born, these are a couple enhanced videos of astronaut William Shepard ejecting floppy disks in space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery
This is a video of the entirely robotic One Hacker Band performing a rendition of Nirvana’s 1991 banger ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Even without watching the video, you can tell it’s a robot band playing it. It sounds robotic. Like I’ve often been accused of, it has no soul. Also,
This is ‘Bob Ross and his crazy AI painting’, a video created by Miha Mastnak with the help of artificial intelligence that imagines a series of canvases on Bob’s easel that gradually follow a river upstream. The future: it’s terrifying. I mean the past is pretty terrifying too, and the
Because everyone’s tree is different (I think mine is just poison ivy), this is a video documenting Youtuber SeanHodgins’ construction of a spinning holographic Christmas tree. One that spins so fast he stands behind a blast shield while testing it. Still, I can’t help but want to bet somebody twenty
Trim as in decorate, not trim as in cut, but give them a chainsaw attachment and I’m sure they could do that as well. Make you need a pair bionic legs too. This is a video of a trio of Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robots putting a bow on the
Built by Xiaomi Global, CyberOne is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot capable of, among other things, some basic drumming. It might not be able to perform a face-melting solo that will end with underwear being thrown on stage, but robots have little interest in underwear anyways. Me? Underwear has always
Preparing for our return to the moon in coming years (it’s about time), the recently completed Artemis 1 mission successfully made unmanned moon-flybys with the Orion space capsule, which was just recovered from the Pacific ocean. Artemis 2 will see manned moon-flybys, and Artemis 3, humanity’s return to the moon
Ever wonder what it looked like inside a spinning CT scanner? Well wonder no more my curious friend (are you a cat?), because this is a video of exactly that. I always assumed it was just two wizards making a donut shape and pointing their wands at the patient, but