Designed by inventor Kazuya Shibata, this is a video demonstration of a face shield that quickly closes above a user’s face in the event they drop their phone while scrolling in bed at night, preventing both the pain and personal embarrassment associated with such a drop. Alternatively, doomscroll on your

Presumably taking a little breather from synchronized dancing, this a video of a Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot completing tasks fully autonomously. That means absolutely no human intervention. Which is a relief, because I was worried robots might not be able to complete their tasks after exterminating us all. Some

Above: Producing an indigo colored plasma by radiating an indium alloy. This is a video of Youtuber/electrical mad scientist StyroPyro constructing and experimenting with a 20,000 watt microwave oven, roughly 20x more powerful than the one above your stove. It can fully cook a frozen Hot Pocket in 10 seconds,

This is the Kinetic LED Display Wall developed by JYVisions of Shenzhen, China. In addition to all the programmable LEDs, each block can also move outward from the wall for extra visual effect. Hey — anything to get people’s attention. It’s nearly impossible to get people to look up from

This is a short video created by viral marketing firm Vertex CGI of Lady Liberty donning a ghost costume for Halloween. Is it supposed to provide social commentary about how the advancement of freedom, hope, and opportunity are dead? I don’t think so, I think it’s just supposed to be

This is a video from Youtuber Half-Asleep Chris (just imagine what he could accomplish with a pot of coffee), who built an amusement park river ride in his backyard for a LEGO boat. In his own words: “It goes through caves, crystal grottos, temples, and more, inspired by the likes

This is a video from AI Warehouse of the process of training five different bodied AI models to run a 100m dash using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The models are rewarded for moving forward, and punished for falling over. How do you reward or punish an AI model? No clue, but

This is a video of unorthodox entertainer Michael Rayner (aka brokenjuggler, previously seen here) rolling a hamburger around a Japanese style parasol until it sheds its burger wrapper and eventually launches its pickles into the parking lot. What a showman! Just don’t tell my girlfriend, she’d fight you for wasting