This is a video of Youtuber MadHotGlass playing two water hammers that she made, which consist of water sealed inside a vacuum created in borosilicate glass tubes. The resulting metallic ‘ping’ sound is due to there not being any air inside the tubes to cushion the water when it hits
This is a video demonstration and up-close look at the mechanism of the beautiful hand-cranked (motor optional) kinetic sculpture created by artist Ross McSweeney featuring a little row boat bobbing up and down on waves that move vertically both left to right AND front to back. Plus there are a
This is a short video from Youtuber Craft Workbench demonstrating a tiny, finger-mounted crossbow capable of firing wooden darts into a cucumber. So, the next time you find a cucumber trying to pick a fight just load up your little finger crossbow with the end of a kabob stick, look
This is a video tour of the tow-behind camper that Steve Jones modded from an old Royal Air Force VC10 jet engine. The ‘VC10 Caravan Pod’ (links to the project’s Facebook page) can sleep four very close friends and looks like you’re pulling some sort of government weapon when being
Because eccentricity knows no bounds, this is a video of French musician Grégoire Blanc performing Pink Floyd’s classic ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ on “the highly-expressive Haken Continuum, a vintage Elektor Formant modular synth, grand piano, and a theremin taking on Clare Torry’s famous vocals.” I imagine Pink Floyd would
This is a video from a vacationer on Useppa Island, Florida who found a squid on the dock he believes was dropped by one of the ospreys nesting nearby, and captured this footage of its color-changing chromatophores before returning it to the ocean. Pretty wild, right? I wish I could
This is a video of Youtuber Randomonium discussing, building, and demonstrating his homemade invisibility/distortion shield constructed using sheets of lenticular lens. For those of you unfamiliar with how lenticular lenses work, he provides an explanation and diagram at around 2:30. Randomium estimates the cost of building your own shield to
This is ‘Lost In Motions,’ a fun stop motion video created by Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Livschitz using 800 individually laser-cut dancer silhouettes. Perhaps just as cool as the finished product though is the behind-the-scenes footage that plays after the short, showing how the entire thing came together. Still, going with
