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 from explainer of things Tom Scott taking a tour of and discussing the last aerial ropeway in England, one built in the 1920’s that’s operated by Claughton Brickworks in Lancashire. The ropeway is about 1.5-miles long, hauls 300-tons of shale every day, and does it all
This is a video of a woman who left a zero-turn lawnmower doing donuts in the yard and is trying smack its handle with a rake to stop it. Shouldn’t there be some sort of failsafe that prevents this from happening? I feel like somebody tampered with this machine to
This is a video from Valencia, Spain of a front end loader with an orange harvesting attachment spreading its cape around an orange tree planted on the sidewalk and shaking and catching the fruit as it falls. Well, some of it at least. Apparently these particular orange trees produce fruit
This is a video released by LEGO and pizza lover The Brick Wall to celebrate five years on Youtube by presenting his latest creation: a LEGO assembly line capable of putting uniform amounts of sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and peppers (or any other small ingredient) on an uncooked pizza. Unfortunately it
Seen here looking like it ran over a body, this is a video of a Zamboni resurfacing the ice at Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex at Monroe Community College’s campus in upstate New York when it decides it’s had enough of its cold lifestyle and catches fire. Impressively, the operator manages
This is a video of a remote controlled robotic coconut harvester being developed in India as a result of a shortage of current model coconut harvesters, which are actual human beings who climb 50-feet into a coconut tree, then hold on with one hand while hacking off coconut stems with
This is ‘What Door Will The Ball Hit?’, a fun video created by Rube Goldberg machine aficionado and Youtuber Joseph’s Machines. If the title wasn’t hint enough, it’s your job to guess what door the ball will hit in increasingly complex Rube Goldberg machines. There’s also one round each of