These are a couple videos of the Hello CARBOT Unity Series Mirinae Prime toys from South Korea (not Japan like it claims in the first video). When the the cars make contact they instantly transform into a unicorn. That’s pretty cool. I located the toys both on Amazon and eBay
This is a very worthwhile video of Twitter user @KaoruGans0 awkwardly walking around Shibuya, Japan like he’s the main character in a 3rd person style video game, with on-screen health bar and mini-map added for extra video game realism. At one point he even accesses his inventory and puts on
This is a chart of every dress worn by Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus, as created by biology student, artist, and future dress designer Laura Ulrich. Some more info while I try to remember anything about 1994 – 1997 besides I was young and dumb, albeit nowhere near
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