You may recall (although I won’t fault you if you don’t) engineer James Bruton previously building an omnidirectional motorbike on two balls. But do you know what’s better than two balls? “Three balls?” Agreed, but James decided to go the less is more route anyways and made an omnidirectional motorball
This is a video of circus performer Wesley Williams riding a unicycle that’s 25 wheels high (technically a quinviginticycle or pentaicosacycle that only balances on one wheel). That’s way up there! Some would argue TOO way up there. Get your head out of the clouds, Wesley! I was more than
This is a video of a young rollerblader demonstrating her incredible balance by skating (and spinning around) on a single wheel. That’s wild! For reference, last weekend I tried riding my bike for a few seconds without holding the handlebars and time traveled to a future where I woke up
This is a video from a Mr Mikes SteakhouseCasual (also great for steak-eating records) in Ontario, Canada of Abbetjes Meindert de Boer’s world record Jenga tower — a total of 3,132 blocks supposed by a single vertical block at the bottom. That bottom block must be feeling so much pressure!
This is a video of unorthodox entertainer Michael Rayner (aka brokenjuggler, previously seen here) rolling a hamburger around a Japanese style parasol until it sheds its burger wrapper and eventually launches its pickles into the parking lot. What a showman! Just don’t tell my girlfriend, she’d fight you for wasting
Constructed by HackADay user mircemk using as many 3D printed parts as possible, this self-balancing cube uses an Arduino Nano microcontroller and MPU6050 gyroscope / accelerometer to control 3 motor-driven reaction wheels to keep itself balanced — even standing on one corner on a slope! Me? I can’t stand on
This is a clip of a man (who I swear I posted on Geekologie back in the day — glad to see he’s still at it) demonstrating his complete disregard for gravity by balancing a number of glass bottles on each other in precarious ways. He also does some blindfolded
This is a clip of a French bulldog balancing a blue ball on its nose and back while running and playing on the beach. It’s almost hard to believe it’s so good it, and I had to zoom and enhance the video for signs of CGI. It’s real though. Most