Because who hasn’t dreamed of piloting their own AT-AT walker through the side of a neighbor’s house, this is a video of engineer James Bruton constructing his own roughly 7-foot tall rideable AT-AT. It moves at a snail’s pace (even slower than in the movies), but I would still proudly
This is a video of Dutch kinetic artist Theo Jansen and four of his Strandbeests he lashed together to move along the beach as one giant beest, powered by the breeze. Just look at that thing go! Next stop: training it to wave a metal detector. Pirate treasure, here I
This is a video of pianist Lord Vinheteiro playing the piano via two old manual typewriters with their keys attached to the piano’s keys via string. That’s something. Now play All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! Sometimes I wish I could play the piano. Nothing crazy,
This is a video of Youtuber Frankie Lapenna riding what he touts as “the least likely to be stolen electric bike of all time,” an e-bike that looks like an assembly of high voltage electrical boxes when not in use. The bike lowers itself down on its wheels when parked
This is a deck of cards that, when properly stacked and treated like a flipbook, show a sort of CT style scan of the human body from front to back (available HERE in some sort of quarterly science mystery box). That’s cool. And while the cards have to be in
Because dream it, and, with enough Youtube views, you can recoup the money it cost to build, this is a video of Youtuber Mr. Ho Thanh Che constructing a UFO inspired jet boat. The flying saucer shaped watercraft is powered by the same sort of motor as a jet-ski, and
Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, this is a video demonstration of Dutch game designer Giliam de Carpentier’s Carpentopod, a wooden coffee table that walks and can be remote controlled. Carpentopod, fetch me a beer! “Remote controlled, not voice controlled.” Riiiiight. *tossing empty can on floor* Well it could use a
This is ‘Nanoscapes’ a short video shot by Kristina Dutton featuring butterfly wings captured with an electron microscope at magnifications up to 50,000X. That’s some series magnification. Most of the time I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. “Butterfly wings.” I like you, I really do, but you