This is a brief video of an automated lemon-stickering machine (I know it was on my Christmas list) doing its thing. Its thing being applying the stickers to lemons so both you and the cashier can identify them at the supermarket. Oh is that a lemon? Shoot, I meant to
This is a video of the Guinness World Record holder for largest Rube Goldberg machine, an entirely overcomplicated machine that takes four and a half minutes and 427 individual steps to turn on a light. For reference, I usually get the job in a single step by yelling, “Hey —
This is another 3D size comparison visualization from MetaBall Studio (previously), this time comparing the sizes of various fictional land vehicles from pop culture. Which vehicle is your favorite? Anything is better than my car, mostly because I don’t have one and my girlfriend has to drive me everywhere. I
This is a short video of TikTok user Shar Aguilar’s father sitting on the floor in her laundry room scratching his leg and watching how the washing machine works because they never had one growing up in the Philippines. Really makes you reconsider all the things you take for granted,
This is a video of the fun-loving Finns of the Hydraulic Press Channel using a 150-ton hydraulic press to drive a bunch of nails simultaneously, culminating with the pressing of 300 nails all at the same time, requiring some 100-tons of pressure to do so. For reference, that’s a lot
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