This is a video of PPSS Group’s CEO donning one of the company’s stab-proof vests for a live demonstration at a trade show. The vest is made of a carbon fiber composite, and differs from bulletproof vests which are designed to flatten bullets but can allow a knife blade through.

As part of my ongoing commitment to public health, this is a video from emergency medical service provider Kieram Litchfield detailing what different colored urine means about your health, adding food coloring to toilet water and stirring the faux-pee with what I assume is a roommate’s cereal spoon. From kidney

This is a video of what appears to be a homemade tow-behind snowplow doing its thing. Its thing being plowing snow, just to be clear. I’m not entirely sure what it’s made of, but if I had to guess, I’d say 100% ingenuity. Or a brick with a couple long

Because knowledge is power, this is a video of DJ from Youtube channel The Bear Essentials detailing how to get back in a capsized canoe in deep water. It does involve grabbing your thwart and yoke, which I do all the time, capsized boat or not. First you right the

This is a video from a Holiday Inn in San Jose, California of a thieving couple using a Lock Monkey style under-the-door lever opener to try to gain access to one of the rooms after knocking to make sure nobody was home (the woman in the room saw them through

This is a video from driving simulator BeamNG.Drive imagining a car (modeled after a BMW/Mercedes) getting crashed into a stationary bollard at speeds of 30MPH, 50MPH, 80MPH, 120MPH, 160MPH, 200MPH, and 260MPH. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that if you ever have to crash your car, try

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 US map detailing the safest to most dangerous states according to six categories: personal safety, public safety, financial safety, mental health, transportation and infrastructure, and public safety. Each state was ranked 1 – 50 in 39 different metrics, and the findings combined for category rank, and overall