Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, this is a video demonstration of Dutch game designer Giliam de Carpentier’s Carpentopod, a wooden coffee table that walks and can be remote controlled. Carpentopod, fetch me a beer! “Remote controlled, not voice controlled.” Riiiiight. *tossing empty can on floor* Well it could use a

This is a video of a small flashmob performing Nirvana’s 1991 banger of bangers ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a European railway station. Obviously, the woman who requests the song at the beginning is in on the mob, but the rest of the travelers at the station were not. As

These are two videos of the world’s first successful frontside and backside 2160s (six full rotations) on a snowboard. The backside (rotating clockwise if you’re riding with your left foot forward) 2160 was accomplished by Japanese teen snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara in 2023 (he was 16 at the time). The frontside

Because even a hundred wrongs don’t make a right, these are two videos of a man getting his truck towed in Brooklyn for parking in a tow zone, starting just after he tried driving his vehicle off the back of the tow arm. After that failed, he tries to fight

This is a short security cam video that captured the end life cycle of a road sign, from initial accident (sideswiped by a bus) to eventual death (drunk man breaking post, carrying pole away). That poor sign — you almost feel bad for it. Then you remember it’s just a

This is ‘Nanoscapes’ a short video shot by Kristina Dutton featuring butterfly wings captured with an electron microscope at magnifications up to 50,000X. That’s some series magnification. Most of the time I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. “Butterfly wings.” I like you, I really do, but you

This is an Instagram video of a man constructing a “quick and easy” carnival style spinning ride in his backyard using a tree and some lumber (which was also once trees). The ride features seating for four, and is powered by spinning the riders around the tree to build tension

This is a video of Nissan France setting the world record for highest bungee jump for a car, dropping a Nissan Qashqai e-Power from a height of 65m (213’3″). At first I thought it was lame because I assumed there wasn’t a driver inside, but I was wrong. Then I