Note: Photo above is a lie, does not use finger lightning. This is a video of Nate From The Internet (I thought I recognized him from somewhere!) attempting to bake edgeless brownies (plus bread and angel food cake) using electricity. The concept is simple: place the batter between two conductive

This is a short video from Shandong, China during the recent Qingdao International Beer Festival of twin Raidens dancing atop giant Tesla coils and sharing some lightning between them. Whatever happened to not crossing the streams? I have to admit though, this is the exact sort of entertainment I would

This is a video of electrical engineer Greg Leyh of Lightning On Demand (same here but mine requires black magic and a ton of mana) blasting watermelons to pieces with currents equivalent to those found in lightning (25,000 – 100,000 amps). Allegedly Greg performed these experiments to test a new

This is a video of the custom plasma speakers built by engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli from two CRT television flyback transformers playing the classic Popeye theme. Now those are some sexy speakers. I thought my Yamahas were nice, but they don’t look anything like two robot nipples shooting musical lightning.

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?