Brickit is a smartphone app (currently available for iOS, Android coming soon) that can analyze any photo of spread out LEGO pieces (aka a LEGO minefield), identify the different pieces present via machine learning, suggest things you can build with them, and provide the step-by-step instructions to build those things.

This is a rather erotic timelapse of king oyster mushrooms growing as captured by Youtuber Another Perspective (previously, including a shitake mushroom timelapse), whose automated system took a photo every four seconds for ten days. You know, it’s well documented mushrooms actually came to earth from outerspace, provided what I

These are a couple beautiful timelapse videos released by the European Space Agency (ESA) of astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough spacewalking while installing new solar arrays on the International Space Station. Thank goodness neither one of them got hit by one of those rotating arrays and got booted out

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill demonstrating how to use a vacuum chamber to easily separate the filling from both sides of Oreo cookies. Don’t have a vacuum chamber? No worries, just dunk and stuff four Oreos in your mouth and eat them all at once

This is a video from a birdwatcher in Methuen, Massachusetts who attached a suction cup hummingbird feeder to the back of their phone and was pleasantly surprised when a hummingbird came to eat. It doesn’t even look real, it looks like a scene from a Pixar movie. And while the

This is a video of maker of things The Q constructing a hubless, chain-driven bicycle that cleverly turns the rear wheel via a chain that goes all the way around its geared outer rim. Pretty cool, but if a bike doesn’t have spokey dokeys, I’m not riding it. I’m also

Because secret passages are the best passages, this is a video of pilot and Youtuber bjornpilot giving a tour of the flight deck crew rest bunk and the electronics compartment below the cockpit of an Airbus 350. I guess they’re technically not secret areas, they’re just areas normal people don’t

Because sometimes a dinky paring knife just isn’t going to cut it *ba dum tss* this is a video of metalworker and Youtuber Faraway Forge crafting a giant gyutu chef’s knife out of what appears to be an automotive leaf spring. The whole process was pretty satisfying to watch. As