This is a video demonstration of Cellumation’s impressive omnidirectional conveyor system, capable of moving flat-bottomed packages in any direction across its modular hexagonal surface. Each hexagon contains three sets of wheels, which can be programmed to move objects in any non-vertical direction. Very cool, but its practical application? Cheating at

This is a video of a skateboarder ollieing his board through a tire while he goes over the whole thing, reconnecting with his board like two old friends on the other side. Pretty impressive. For reference, at the pinnacle of my greatest skateboarding skills I tried to ollie over a

This is a video of skimboarder Adrien Raza blazing across a wide canal on his board with the ease of a knife through warm butter. Me? I would have fallen immediately and cut my knees up in the sand just like every other time I’ve tried skimboarding. “But there’s no

This is a video of a magician demonstrating his very impressive version of the detachable finger trick. Now as I’m sure you’re all aware, I pride myself in my deftness at the detachable finger trick, so it’s a little disheartening to see somebody so skilled and who probably didn’t even

This is a video of a street-vending chef stir-frying some noodles and performing an interpretive dance to PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ while twirling around with her wok. I’d be lying if I said I’d be standing as close as anybody you see in the video. I’d also be lying if I

This is a video of Mark Rober discussing and demonstrating the five-years-in-the-making robot he and his team built that’s capable of setting up a record-breaking 100,000 dominos in 24 hours. For reference, it takes an experienced team of seven a full week to set up the same number of dominos,

In the spirit of the upcoming Olympics, this is a video of what some consider “the best dive ever,” performed by Greg Louganis as the 1986 World Championships in Madrid. Greg executes a near-flawless swan dive off the 3-meter springboard with almost no splash. Pretty wild, right? Now can somebody

This is a video documenting NYU track star Jon Diáz attempting to exit the New York City 2-3 subway train at Chambers Street and beat it to its next stop at Park Place. Can he do it? SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: Yes, returning to the train (after trying to get on