Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found that adding robotic googly eyes that turn to gaze at pedestrians the car has identified help make them safer, by letting humans know the car has recognized them and (hopefully) won’t run them over. Plus the cars look way friendlier too —

This is a short video of an incredibly fast conveyor belt sorting machine doing its thing, its thing being sorting objects into specific cardboard boxes, presumably to still get sent to the wrong address or lost in the mail after all its hard work. Where are the sex toys I

Because why not make mowing the lawn as enjoyable as possible, maker of things Matt Thompson created this custom push lawnmower upgrade, featuring a beer holder (and bottle opener), as well as places for his chips and salsa, and a phone holder for watching sports. There also appears to be

This is a video showing the movement of the Taipei 101’s tuned mass damper during the recent 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the country. The tuned mass damper is a massive 16-foot, 660-metric ton sphere suspended between the 88th and 92nd floors of the building that swings to counteract any movement

Because it’s Taco Tuesday, this is a video of design and useability expert (I’m just an amateur myself) Dan Formosa discussing and rating five different taco related cooking gadgets based on their functionality. The results may surprise you. Especially if you expected them to all be useless turds. As a

A 17th century female ‘vampire’ was found buried in Poland with a sickle across her neck in order to prevent her from rising from the dead and feasting on the blood of the living. She also had a padlock attached to her big toe. Now I’m not sure if the

This is a video of an enterprising Yankees fan at a recent game against the Mets coring his hot dog with a straw, then using the hot dog as a straw to drink his beer. How about that! Admittedly, hot dogs and beer are a match made in heaven, and

This is a video of a dinner table for eight being set with the help of a large spinning glass platter in the center. Is this the most practical way to set a table? I guess that depends on how many plates you’re cool with me breaking spinning the platter