‘Are You Dead Yet’ App A Viral Hit In China
‘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
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Piano That Lights Up Bioluminescent Algae As It’s Played
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.
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Humanoid Robot Kicks Man To Ground
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
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Building And Testing The World’s Most Powerful Handheld Laser
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
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Secret Door To A Secret Mini Library
This is a video of Morley Kert building a mini library in the wall of the landing of his stairs (technically his landlord’s stairs), complete with a secret door that takes a special combination to unlock. That’s whimsical. And you know how I feel about whimsy! “It’s your middle name.”
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A Chainsaw Chainsawing Filmed In Ultra Slow Motion
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
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Sledding Down A Hill On Anything But A Sled
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
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Lottery Every Second Website Is A Fictional Lottery Drawing Every Second
Lottery every second is just what it sounds like (well, minus any actual money — not that you were going to win anyways), a Powerball and EuroJackpot style lottery drawing every second. It’s tagline? “Why wait a week for disappointment when you can have it every second?” Ha, I’ve got
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