Because some people refuse to let go of the 1950’s vision of the future, this is a video of Slovakia-based Klein Vision’s AirCar prototype taking to the skies on its maiden voyage. The vehicle, which transforms from car to plane in slow-motion Transformer style, features a 1.6-liter BMW engine cranking
This is Vino, a corkscrew/bottle opener combo designed by Adi Kafri for OTOTO Studio (available here on Amazon for $23) that looks like a little bat. The bat’s wings move up and down as a bottle is opened and the cork is pulled out. Speaking of — I think I’ll
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