Because the end can’t come soon enough, this is a video of Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot performing some kung-fu on the sidewalk (previously: the G1 doing some jumping around like House Of Pain). You can buy your own G1 for around $16,000, although no word from Unitree if they’ll offer
This is a video from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which studies wolf behavior in Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota, of a rock that was intentionally sprayed with skunk essence (eau de La Pew) in order to get passing wolves to stop in front of the trail cam. It works
This is a video of Fingerbirgit, an automaton built by Hknssn, who describes himself as “creator, inventor and slightly insane.” I trust him. The automaton is powered via hand crank or lowering weight, and uses 1,170 pieces to delicately spin a globe in its five talons while the fingers take
This is a video of jump roper Cen Xiaolin setting a new world speed record with an astonishing 228 jumps (technically alternate leg skips) in 30 seconds. That’s 7.6 jumps PER SECOND. Cen has been speed jumping for a while, and his record 8 years ago was only 108 jumps,
Because things stopped making sense a long time ago, Atari and UK-based Shed Sauce teamed up to produce Atari Sauces, a line of “hot and BBQ sauces inspired by Atari classics.” Come on now, were the sauces actually inspired by classic games, or did you just loosely match existing sauce
This is a video of tuxedo cat Gus catching a ride on his caretaker grannysday’s walker as she takes it for a spin around the room. Apparently Gus insists on a ride whenever she uses the walker, which should come to no surprise to anybody who’s ever had a cat
The Red Bull Hardline is considered one of the most difficult downhill mountain bike races in the world. And, after watching this video (three and a half minutes of near certain death), I can see why. This is the helmetcam footage of Canadian mountain biker Jackson Goldstone’s winning run at
This is a video of heavy breather Sergey Tsyrulnikov setting the Guinness World Record for most hot water bottles burst in 1 minute via overinflating with breath, with a respectable nine. Of course that’s all the water bottles there were on the table, so thank goodness he didn’t finish them