Inspired by AI slop images, engineer Allen Pan (previously) decided to try building an aquarium toilet in real life. The result? A surprisingly functional aquarium toilet. If I’d tried building it? An unsurprisingly unfunctional aquarium toilet and $18K of water damage in the basement. BONUS AI slop beer boots made

‘Are You Dead Yet’ is an app recently released in China that asks a user daily if they’re still alive. After two missed button-press confirmations, it notifies the emergency contact they entered when they signed up via an email. I want to read that email. [App developer] Guo and his

This is an entirely non-CGI video created by He Tongxue of HTX Studio featuring a piano keyboard attached to a tank filled with bioluminescent algae. As the piano is played it releases air bubbles, disturbing the algae and making them glow around the bubbles as they travel to the top.

Because the robot apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video of a T800 (yes, seriously) humanoid robot built by Chinese robotics company Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. (EngineAI for short) kicking the company’s CEO to the ground to prove previously posted videos of the robot weren’t CGI. How

This is a video of laser and high-voltage experimenter StyroPyro (who I don’t wish lived next door, but do wish lived in the neighborhood) constructing the most powerful handheld laser — a liquid-cooled blaster 50,000X more powerful than a typical laser pointer. Damn! He then tests to see what it

This is a cross-section of a chainsaw doing its thing filmed at 20,000 frames per second. It’s so mesmerizing to watch it’s almost easy to forget that thing will take my leg off. Won’t you, chainsaw? WON’T YOU?! It really wants to, I can tell. I made the mistake of

This is a video of comedian Daniel LaBelle attempting to sled down a hill on anything he can find that isn’t a sled. Objects include a frying pan, dual baking sheets, a laundry basket, an air mattress, a kid’s mini bicycle, rollerblades, a suitcase, shoes, a snow shovel, a roll

Because the 2026 internet is clearly off to a strong start, this is a video from There I Ruined It (previously) and Griefcat reimagining the Fleetwood Mac classic ‘Landslide’ about actual landslides and not Stevie Nicks contemplating her romantic life with or without bandmate Lindsey Buckingham. I’m not sure if