30-year old Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created a virtual reality headset that kills a user in real life if they die in-game, by exploding their head. Finally, the high-stakes video gaming I’ve been waiting for! Some more information about the headset while I wonder what Facebook’s next move will
In what is arguably the most important time capsule of all time, TikTok user Sunday Nobody built and buried a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus not to be reopened for 10,000 years containing a single snack size bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin for future civilizations to discover, and, presumably,
Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off!
New York City 1, a 1942 piece by famed abstract artist Piet Mondrian, was unknowingly hung upside down (left) at its initial public display in 1945 (Mondrian died in 1944), and has been rehung the same way ever since. Well that’s embarrassing. Get it together, art nerds, those art history
These are several videos of tinkerer Kyle Krueger demonstrating the $679 Imalent MS18 LEF flashlight, the world’s brightest LED flashlight. The 100,000 lumen light has a reach of 1,350-meters and is definitely not a toy, although I would certainly still treat it like one. In the videos, Kyle shines the
Because dream it and, with enough people willing to risk broken bones you can achieve it, this is a video of Spain’s Castellers de Vilafranca setting a human pyramid record with a tower nine people high. Granted the very top floor of the tower is really only a half story
Even though rich people’s exotic cars are at the very bottom of my list of things to to worry about during natural disasters, these are several photos and videos from Naples, Florida of a $2.3-million McLaren P1 that, along with its garage neighbor Rolls-Royce Phantom, succumbed to storm surges caused
Note: Check your volume, wind. Also a little appropriate cursing. This is a video of a man filming some pelicans (first trip to the beach, huh?) when a dolphin decides there isn’t enough shit in the water already and races towards him like a shark during a feeding frenzy. That