This is a video of maker of marginally useful things Uri Tuchman constructing an auto-deploying tape measure. That’s neat. What would be even neater is if it were a voice-activated SMART tape measure. “Tape measure, give me 4-feet 5-inches!” Yeah…that would really be something.

Because what good is a security camera if it only captures footage of a thief stealing all your stuff, the Paintcam Eve is an autonomous security camera with built-in paintball launcher capable of firing paintballs or UV-ink marking pellets to deter trespassers. The camera can be smartphone controlled, allowing you

This is a video of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield rating various space related movie scenes for realism. Movie include: ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Life,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon,’ ‘F9: The Fast Saga,’ ‘Space Cowboys’, ‘Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi’,

I feel like I posted this or something very on Geekologie back in another lifetime, but that may have just been a fever dream. Hard to say. This is a video of the ‘earthquake bed’ imagined by Chinese inventor Wang Wenxi. In the event an earthquake is detected, the bed

This is a video of Instagram user its.PilotJohn performing a nosedive to allegedly wake up his female passenger with a little weightlessness. It’s true, I’ve found nothing wakes you up in a hurry quite like thinking you’re about to die. Was she actually asleep though? That’s debatable. A debate you

This is a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger presenting Danny DeVito with a marijuana laced cigar at a table read or something for Triplets (the upcoming sequel to Twins, starring the two and Tracey Morgan). Apparently this was in reference to back when they were filming Twins some 35 years ago

In go go gadget ROFLcopter news, this is a video of Ascend Dynamics testing its SkyPak V1 electric powered ‘jetpack’. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I agree, the wood support makes it look that much cooler — like you’re a flying human mailbox. The non-jetpack is actually powered

Because pouring shots takes time (I’m talking valuable seconds here) — time you could spend drinking instead, this is the $26 quick shot dispenser. You just pour into the middle of the bowl above, and it distributes booze relatively evenly into the shot glasses below (which can be individually plugged