This is a clip of the painted eyeballs being applied to dolls during a multi-step process at a toy factory in Adana, Turkey. They start with a base of white (sclera), then add a ring of blue iris before completing the look with black pupil and eyelash on the side.
Because the things you can do with the human body are nothing short of astounding (I’m a bad example, sloth is not that astounding) this is a video of the performers of Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Kurios’ show practicing their human jump launches backstage. They make it all look so smooth
The brainchild of maker of things Ivan Miranda, this is a giant 3D printed marble clock that tells time using black and white marbles as a dot matrix display. The clock features a marble elevator, at the top of which it uses an array of infrared sensors to determine black
Captured by nature photographer Fernando Maidana, this is a video of a capybara (a giant rodent, like my previous roommate turned out to be) smoothly running across the bottom of a river at the Recanto Ecológico Rio da Prata in Jardim in Brazil. I assume it opted for the underwater
Because everybody’s idea of a fun weekend with the boys is different, this is a video from Destin of Youtube channel Smarter Every Day (I’m the opposite) getting a group of his buddies together to pit eight different brands of string trimmer line against each other, tournament style. That slow
This is a video of object manipulator and prop designer SHAO performing a routine using a morphing cube prop developed by fellow prop designer Thomas Foyk. It was pretty fun to watch. How about all those faces he has though?! I’ve heard of people being two-faced, but four? That’s a
This is a video from the recent Adobe MAX 2023 conference of researcher Christine Dierk unveiling Project Primrose, a dress covered with reflective LCD scales that can change patterns instantly, or even be animated. Adobe imagines designers “layering this technology into clothing, furniture, and other surfaces to unlock infinite style
This is a short video of a model rocket replica of Space X’s Falcon 9 reusable rocket blasting off, then coming back down and using its thruster to make a soft landing on its feet. It’s like a cat in that regard. Me? I’m also like a cat, but in