This is a video of maker of things Peter Sripol constructing and attempting to fly a single-person plane made almost entirely out of cardboard, hot glue, and tape. The plane is powered by brushless motors but has to be towed behind a car to take off. But does it fly?

I’m on vacation with family this holiday week and the internet is just two rusty soup cans and several pieces of yarn tied together so posting will be very light if at all until Monday. Please reread the archives and I will be back to cyber on Monday.

Because you can never have enough cowbell bass, Philip Kaplan (previously seen reinventing portable music with CD player headphones) went and built a tactical subwoofer. At first I was skeptical, but after watching the video it’s managed to break into the top 10 of my Christmas list. I’m really hoping

This is a video of two rollerbladers doing their best Autobots impression and transforming and rolling out as a car. That looks like a good time. Probably more so being the driver than the car though, because I have no core strength and would have just run over my own

Because everybody dreams of setting a different record (I dream of setting the human hibernation record), this is a video of French cyclist Aurelien Fontenoy hopping his bike up all 686 stairs to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower. I can’t even imagine if it took 686 stairs to

Because ‘Black Mirror’ was actually just a regular mirror all along, AI app 2wai (pronounced 2-way) creates digital avatars that you can interact with, promising to connect the currently living with the currently dead for a monthly fee. Because that’s something we’ve been needing. Allegedly all that’s needed is a

This is a clip from the Tianmen National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, China (previously seen with athletes parkouring down) where a publicity stunt involving a Chery SUV attempting to drive up the 999 stairs leading to ‘Heaven’s Gate’ went horribly wrong. The SUV eventually slips backwards and destroys part of

Because evolution is just an r short of revolution (I don’t know I’m just spitballing here), this is a video featuring a brief evolutionary history of Theo Jansen’s wind-powered Strandbeests, culminating in footage of his most recent species. Do, uh, do these things mate? And do you think they’ll ever