This is a video of Gracie Scullion demonstrating a very clever delayed/lagging voice trick that basically involves mouthing the words you’re going to say, then saying them a moment later ventriloquist style. She recommends starting with words that don’t involve your lips needing to touch in order to pronounce, so
Because music is everywhere, this is a video of Spanish musician Xavier Lozano performing a lovely melody on a metal street barricade. Are there cars going down a street they aren’t supposed to right now thanks to Xavier? Quite possibly. Should you go around blowing into everything you come across
This is a clip from WIRED’s ‘A World of Difference’ of Korey Kiepert, engineer and owner of wooden roller coaster design firm The Gravity Group comparing and contrasting the eight main types of roller coasters, how they operate, and what decisions lead to building one style of coaster instead of
Just like in the previous post, this is an amazing video, this time of Baltimore Orioles prospective pitcher Mickey Jannis throwing a 70MPH unspinning knuckleball with the skill of a surgeon. I mean, provided surgeons actually had skills instead of just constantly refusing to perform my penis reduction surgery because
This is a video of lover of unusual instruments Nicolas Bras (previously) constructing and playing a mouth violin based on the k’ni (aka Vietnamese mouth violin) used by the Jarai people of Vietnam. The instrument uses the player’s mouth as a resonator, “which enables the instrument to imitate certain qualities
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 short video demonstration of the ‘Maglev Sushi Conveyor’ manufactured by Furex Solutions. The unit is advertised as being both easier to maintain and clean than traditional conveyors (or trains or boats), which I believe. Plus it looks like magic, and you know how I feel about magic.
In the future humans won’t even wear shoes, we’ll all have rocket boots that come out of our legs like Iron Man’s suit. Or we’ll evolve to have hooves like horses, it could go either way. This is the Nike GO Flyease, a shoe that can be put on and