Previously seen letting mushrooms play a keyboard, Youtuber BionicandtheWires is back with another video, this time allowing a colony of oyster mushrooms to paint a picture. The mushrooms’ natural fluctuations in electrical activity is transformed into brush movement via attached solenoids. That painting, wow — way better than anything my

Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?

With Halloween only 10 days away (and Christmas already in full swing at most retailers), this is a video of engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli’s quartet of Tesla coils performing the Halloween standard ‘Spooky Scary Skeletons’. Should he have called it ‘Shocky Sparky Skeletons’ instead? Yes, and I should have been

This is a very brief video of Zeus adding his own bit of flair to a 4th of July fireworks show in Mustang, Oklahoma (never been, but I can imagine what it’s like). That’s cool, I love fireworks AND lightning. Is anybody working on a way to harvest lightning energy?

Figuring it still has lives to spare, this is a short video of a clever kitty demonstrating its ability to unplug an automatic food dispenser without the plug falling out of the outlet, then plugging it back in so it dispenses some brown and crunchy. I feel like an automatic

This is a video from the Diesel House museum in Denmark of its still functional B&W 2000 8-cylinder diesel engine starting, which was the world’s largest when it was built in 1933 through the 1960’s. The gigantic engine measures approximately 81 feet long, 41 feet tall, weighs 1,400 tons (almost

This is some security cam footage from Dale Earnheart Jr.’s JR Motorsports in Moorsville, North Carolina that captured Thor throwing a lightning bolt at a truck parked there, causing a shower of sparks and the truck’s headlights to stay on. Unlocked: PERMANENT HIGH BEAMS. Or, who knows, maybe windows that

This is a video of a precious lil Yorkshire Terrier that’s become a science experiment after repeatedly rubbing itself on the sofa and building up static electricity. It reminds me of myself after sticking my hand on the Van de Graaff Generator at the science museum. Good times. Not nearly