This is a video of a trained vulture landing on the selfie stick of paragliding instructor Scott Mason while parahawking (a discipline he developed back in 2001), a real activity that exists combining paragliding and falconry, in which a trained bird of prey leads a paraglider to thermal updraft columns

This is a video from Australia (where else?) of a large huntsman spider on a woman’s car that eventually gets picked off by a magpie while she’s filming it. I like how the spider looked like it was trying to gain access to the vehicle through the rear window, that

This is a ‘best of’ hornet flight video compiled by nature videographer Luthar Lenz using footage he’s shot in the past. It looks so wild it’s almost hard to believe it’s real and not just a modern remake of Honey I Shrunk The Kids. At 2:00 some other species of

This is a video of aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth building and demonstrating the toy hover pod he built that actually flies with the help of parts salvaged from a tiny quadrocopter toy. Pretty cool. Granted in this video The Child flies the thing like they’ve been serving unders at the

This is a short video from artist and creative director Pablo Rochat, who taped up a ‘Tired Of Being A Bird?’ flyer at the bottom of a pole in San Francisco and caught numerous pigeons tearing off the phone number tabs at the bottom. Now why on earth would you

These are the Icon Trolley Suitcases designed by Crash Baggage and for sale on Amazon. They’re available in three different sizes (carry-on, $340; medium, $380; large, $420), eleven different colors, and look like every other suitcase after a few flights. If they were really going for authenticity they should also

In imagine that thing getting dropped in your lap news, this is a video captured from a hotel balcony at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina of an osprey soaring above the beach with a fish as big as it is in its talons. Now that was a good catch. You could

This is a video of thrillseeker and paraglider instructor Hasan Kaval taking to the wild blue yonder on the custom sofa and television paragliding rig he built. I dare say the thrills Hasan was seeking were successfully located. Still, can you believe he forgot– “A safety harness?!” What? No —