Robot Trash Cans That Automatically Move To Catch Your Garbage
Built by the folks at HTX Studio, this is a video highlighting the robotic trash cans they modified to move and catch any garbage thrown in their direction. That’s cool. That way the next time you’re tossing a pink overdue bill in the trash and yell “Kobe!” you don’t embarrass
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New Gigantic Stick Insect Discovered In Rainforests Of Australia
This is a video of a newly discovered stick insect in the tropical rainforests of Queensland, Australia. The Highlands Giant Acrophylla (Acrophylla alta), measures up to 40cm (~16″) long, and appears to be what many would describe as a big no thank you. This particular species lives in the rainforest
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Building A Skateboard Park For The Visually Impaired
This is a video of visually impaired skateboarder Dan Mancina of Keep Pushing Inc. discussing the features of The Ranch skatepark he built for fellow visually impaired skateboarders, as well as for wheelchair use. The key to most features is making them extra long so that a skater still has
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Paintballer Demonstrates His Precision By Completely Outlining Friend
This is a video of a paintballer demonstrating his skills by perfectly outlining a friend with paint like a circus performer throwing knives during a wheel of death act. He finishes the performance with a headshot and trio of buttshots. You can see his assistant tense up as the paint
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Dancers Share Electricity Atop Two Giant Tesla Coils
This is a short video from Shandong, China during the recent Qingdao International Beer Festival of twin Raidens dancing atop giant Tesla coils and sharing some lightning between them. Whatever happened to not crossing the streams? I have to admit though, this is the exact sort of entertainment I would
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Attempting To Build An Automatic Trick-Performing Skateboard
Because dream it and you can kinda sorta make it happen occasionally, this is a video of mad inventor/engineer Allen Pan (previously) building two different versions of automatic trick-performing skateboards. The first is powered by drone rotors and isn’t great (note: he should revisit this build for making a hoverboard),
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Cartwheeling, Fighting Humanoid Robots Now Available For $5,900
This is a hype reel for Unitree’s R1 robot, a 4-foot tall (don’t let the perspective fool you) humanoid robot that’s capable, based on what I gathered from the video, of cartwheels, handstands, and a ton of punching and kicking. The R1 starts at $5,900 (options like moveable hands instead
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Octopus Exhibits Self-Awareness In Fake Hand (Tentacle) Experiment
After performing a modified version the classic rubber hand experiment on octopuses, Japanese researchers Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda at The University of the Ryukyus have suggested octopuses may experience a sense of body ownership similar to humans. In the experiment, a partition and fake tentacle were used to cover
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