This is a video of fun-loving Finnish crushers Lauri and Hanna of the Hydraulic Press Channel pitting a 10,000 brick LEGO block against their 300-ton press. Obviously, hydraulic press has quickly moved to the #1 spot on my Christmas list this year. Will Santa be able to fit it down
- December 4, 2024
This is a Tesla Cybertruck that somebody had wrapped in the dog (Kabosu) from the doge meme. I’ve seen it all now. We’re certainly headed in a direction, aren’t we? Sure the signs all say WRONG WAY, but we just keep driving, don’t we? “Technically the car is self-driving.” We
- December 4, 2024
This is a clip from TikTok user Tara Henderson, who ordered a custom wedding guestbook from one of those online shops that make photo books with the photos you upload, but received somebody’s ‘Shoulder Meat’ book instead. What’s a Shoulder Meat book? Apparently a photo book of people with different
- December 3, 2024
This is a video of Sean Hodgin’s latest iteration of his ‘Become Anyone’ project, which involves developing a face mask that could, potentially, replace your face with anybody else’s. In case you couldn’t tell by the screenshot, the project clearly has a long way to go, because that face is
- December 3, 2024
This is a clip of Sanrio characters interacting across two 3D billboards outside of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Is this the best use of 3D display technology? There’s no question, and I don’t expect to see anything more impressive until 4D billboards, which, let’s not kid ourselves, Japan probably already
- December 3, 2024
This is a chart created by Visual Capitalist detailing about how much longer you have to live according to your age and the U.S. national average. The chart leads me to believe I still have a ways to go, but I feel like I’ve been running on lawnmower fumes (admittedly,
- December 2, 2024
This is a video of a Swede showing off the glorious stick he found, which is quite possibly the finest stick Mother Nature has ever grown. Just look at that thing! As several people pointed out, it doesn’t even look like a stick, it looks like the magical staff you
- December 2, 2024
This is a video from runner and filmmaker Duncan McCabe, who ran precise patterns around Toronto and tracked his routes with the Strava fitness app to create a flipbook style animation from the 121 runs, totaling 1,105km (687 miles) of drawing. That’s impressive. Strava must be pretty accurate to be
- November 27, 2024