These are a couple videos of a LinkerBot Linker Hand L30 demonstrating its quickness by screwing a variety of nuts and bolts at lightning speed. It’s like a cordless screwdriver…but a hand. Talk about fingers of fury! Is this a pleasure model? If it isn’t already, it will be soon.
Because there’s no ingenuity like LEGO ingenuity, this is a video of the playable Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater inspired LEGO build imagined and constructed by David McLelland. It’s currently up for voting on the LEGO Ideas website, so if you want LEGO to consider making it a real set, go
This is a video demonstration of the Roadrunner bipedal robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute. The 33-pound robot looks like a pair of dismembered robotic legs with wheels for feet, presumably because that’s exactly what it is. It can roll around with its wheels oriented straight ahead or
Because some people are still out there having fun (crazy to think about), this is a video of Youtuber Handy Geng making a giant sword (inspired by Ichigo’s Soul-Cutter sword from manga Bleach), then attaching it to the business end of an excavator. Well, provided the business end is the
This is a video of artist Tyler Nathan Turnbull overpainting a framed print found at a thrift store with elements from the original Jurassic Park. The result? “Don’t say it.” IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM. “You said it.” I couldn’t not, I’m sorry. “Are you though?” Only eight times in
Built by Jelle’s Marble Runs, Marblopolis is a marble run amusement park featuring 30 different attractions, all connected via almost 1/4 mile of track. The park can accommodate up to 400 fun-loving marbles at a time, and, I think I speak for everyone here when I ask, what happens if
This is a video of Youtubers Evan Edinger, Tom Scott, and Matt Gray racing from Chiswick in West London to The Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields, East London by e-bike, the Tube, and car to see which is fastest. Google Maps estimates they should all take right around one hour.
We’ve all seen a watermelon wrapped in rubber bands until it explodes, but what about a mirror? What about a laser printer? What about an aquarium? What about a DOOR? This is a video of the fun loving Aussies of How Ridiculous (who must have misplaced my application to join