This is a video of Tom Scott riding a hovercraft developed by Hideyasu Ito, a single person unit that floats on four very precisely created bubbles of air. It’s definitely impressive, but still — if this is as advanced as personal hovercrafts can get, I think it’s time we ditch
To mark the 25th anniversary of the incident, this is a video of the infamous 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in which high winds caused Barney to rip himself wide open on a light pole. I remember it well: one minute I was stuffing my face with Thanksgiving morning cinnamon
This is a short video of the Stranger Things inspired floating Max Halloween yard decoration set up by Chicago-based Dave and Aubrey Appel. Apparently Max is made out of pool noodles, and really is floating, although the couple won’t reveal how exactly they made it ahead of the Halloween holiday.
This is a video of Tom Scott taking flight strapped to a personal blimp. The experience, available at Aéroplume Écausseville in Écausseville, France, costs about €60, for which they’ll strap you to a dirigible filled with 70,000 liters of helium and let you float around an airplane hanger. That’s fun.
This is some POV footage captured by a GoPro camera attached to a LEGO City Ocean Exploration Ship built and sent out to sea by the folks at Youtube channel Canvas 23 Studios to see how the ship fares in a real ocean environment. SPOILER: Not very well. So, the
This is a video of scientific experimenter and Youtuber NightHawkinLight levitating a hotdog by suspending it in a stream of compressed air (an example of the Coandă effect) and cooking the dog via a heating coil in what is arguable the coolest fashion ever, followed distantly by those hotdog carousels
This is a short video of a German Shepherd launching itself over a wide canal, almost appearing to float as it easily clears the water and lands on the other side. For reference, my dog Ellie tried to leap over a small mud puddle on our walk this morning and
Because going nowhere fast is a real thing that happens, this is a video of glider pilot Brent Davidson traveling at 46 knots (~53MPH) in an equal headwind of 46 knots created by an air wave lifted by a mountain range below, causing the glider to just float stationary in