This is a video of ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober (previously: his new and improved anti-porch pirate glitter bomb) constructing the world’s most powerful t-shirt cannon at the request of Jimmy Kimmel for use at the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl game of Oregon State vs Utah State. Mark enlisted the help

This is a video of ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober discussing, building, and putting his Glitter Bomb 4.0 into action. Improvements to the design implemented this year include a pneumatic system that launches the lid off the package, a car horn blaring, as well as an auto-feeding glitter dispersal system that

This is a video of engineer Shane Wighton of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here constructing and demonstrating an auto-aiming bow that does all the work for you. All you have to do is lift the bow in the general direction of the target (including launched targets, like the thrown ones

Previously seen in 3D rendered form, London’s Sky Pool is now open, and here are a couple videos (including one from inside the pool looking down) of all the terrifying fun to be had. As mentioned previously, the 115-foot high pool is only open to people who own units in

This is a video from the streets of Shenzhen, China of people evacuating and fleeing the 71-story SEG Plaza skyscraper after it began swaying for no apparent reason. The building is the world’s 72nd tallest (21st tallest in China), and measures 256-meters (~840-feet) including its antennae. Officials reported calm winds

Opening May 19th, the ‘Sky Pool’ in London’s Nine Elms neighborhood connects the tenth story rooftops of the Embassy Gardens Legacy buildings with a heated 85-foot pool, 46-feet of which is clear acrylic and ‘floating’ 115-feet above the street below. The clear portion of the almost 10-feet deep pool has

Because structural engineering shmuctural engineering, this is a video from Vitória, Brazil of a condominium building’s raised pool instantaneously collapsing into the parking garage below, flooding it. Man, just think if you’d been going for a night swim at that time — SKINNY DIPPING STYLE. Now you’re naked in the

This is a clip from WIRED’s ‘A World of Difference’ of Korey Kiepert, engineer and owner of wooden roller coaster design firm The Gravity Group comparing and contrasting the eight main types of roller coasters, how they operate, and what decisions lead to building one style of coaster instead of