This is a video of and from a robotic spy hippopotamus baby built by John Downer Productions (previous spy animals) to infiltrate and film a bloat/pod/herd of wild hippopotamuses, including some exciting underwater action. Fascinating! Did you know hippos don’t swim but actually walk/run along the bottom of the water?
This is a digitized 35mm film from a car cruising the Las Vegas strip in 1975. Those were the days, weren’t they? No clue, I wasn’t even a worried look on my dad’s face yet. It would have been cool to experience Las Vegas back in its heyday though. Especially
In now that would make an awesome middle school field trip news (we went to a waste water treatment plant), this is a video from inside a LEGO factory detailing how minifigs are made, at rates up to 8,000 minifigs/hour. Fascinating. Of course the short answer of how LEGO minifigs
This is a 3D visualization created by Youtuber Jared Owen exploring the Statue Of Liberty. The video includes, in this order with timestamps: 0:00-Intro, 0:24-Geography, 1:37-History and Facts, 2:44-Construction, 5:31-Renovations, 5:48-Tour Outside, 7:17-Tour Inside Pedestal, 8:40-Tour Inside Statue. The tours at the end were the most exciting part though. Of
This is a very clever video from Jessa of Hyperbolium of a MIDI player performing a piano medley of each US state’s shape as roughly drawn in a visual MIDI player. All the states sound so good you almost forget they’re nine-tenths filled with people you can’t stand. Just for
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 and from a robotic spy crab built by the nature photographers at John Downer Productions in order to infiltrate the annual red crab migration on Christmas Island in order to capture some up-close and personal footage. Highlights include a crab trying to cannibalize the robot
This is a video from a couple dudes who spotted a man driving his 90’s GMC truck that was heavily modified to appear that it’s driving in reverse, with the driver’s seat facing the bed in what is traditionally the rear passenger side of the vehicle. Admittedly, a great way