Visual learning: it’s way cooler than just reading a boring textbook and writing dirty words in the margins. And to prove that, this is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill sticking his hand in a vacuum chamber and sucking all the air out. His hand blows up like
This is a short video of man getting a fake tooth slingshotted out of his mouth while riding one of those terrifying Slingshot rides in (where else?) Florida. Should he have taken it out and put it in his pocket before the ride? Probably. Should he have never tried opening
MIT roboticists and Harvard mathematicians have teamed up to solve an age-old problem: how to teach a robot to brush tangled human hair without just ripping it all out and/or killing the person it’s attached to. Per MIT News while I brush my own hair in the mirror and repeatedly
This is a video of 19-year old Corey Bennet demonstrating his unique shoulder-clapping talent as a result of being born without collarbones (he was actually born with Cleidocranial dysostosis, “that primarily affects the development of bones and teeth”). Pretty wild. Me? I was actually born with– “Let me guess, a
Because flying a plane requires at least a middle school level of maturity, this is a video of a pilot skywriting (skydrawing? skydoodlin’?) a giant penis in the sky. Per the guys filming: “That’s pretty cool.” “Oooh what, oooh — you know what he’s making now.” “I know what he’s
This is a video of Japanese finger tutting (aka finger dancing) group XTRAP performing ‘Piano Fingers’, a very impressive synchronized tutting routine featuring their hands clad in glow-in-the-dark gloves. And you know how I feel about glow-in-the-dark gloves. “They make it easier to see what pieces are in the handful
These are several shots of British rapper Slowthai as half man, half cake for the music video for his song ‘Feel Away’ (UPDATE: music video added). His face and chest are his real face and chest, but his arm and legs are realistic cakes carefully crafted by The Bakeking, Ben
Because great ideas come in all shapes and sizes, including the size and shape of a phone with a tongue sticking out of it where you put your ear, the ‘Feel The Conversation’ phone created by designer Xianzhi Zhang translates speech into haptic feedback based on a caller’s intonation and