This is a video of a real-life stag beetle going horn-to-horn with a larger, robotic stag beetle. At first it seems like the robobeetle is going to dominate, but then the real beetle’s killer instincts kick in and he picks that big bastard up and tosses it off the battle
This is a short video of somebody who modded the rear windshield and wiper of their Ford Fiesta with Thor and his hammer Mjölnir. Not the worst design, but Thor does create a blindspot in the rear window and he IS continuously beating himself in the head with his hammer.
This is a video of Fonzie from DipYourCar painting a car with a thermochromatic car pigment that turns from black to clear to reveal the color below when it gets hot (previously: painting a glow-in-the-dark car). Pretty cool, especially watching the color change in slow motion. I’m tempted to get
Because this is the internet, here’s a video of a bunch of different movie characters deepfaked to perform Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’. The video was created by Youtuber ontyj utilizing Wav2Lip, a neural network that uses existing video of human faces speaking to match a different audio source. The result
This is a video of a remote controlled robotic coconut harvester being developed in India as a result of a shortage of current model coconut harvesters, which are actual human beings who climb 50-feet into a coconut tree, then hold on with one hand while hacking off coconut stems with
This is a video of programmer Foone playing Doom on an electronic pregnancy test. Is he really though? Some more info while I run to the pharmacy, buy all the electronic pregnancy tests, then open my own video game cafe: to clarify what I’m doing here: This is a replacement
This is a video of TicTok user aly.sherb’s grandmother showing off the McDonald’s hamburger and fries she’s been keeping alive since 1996. Unsurprisingly to anyone who knows McDonald’s is made with preservative magic and very little actual food, the burger and fries look just like the day they rolled off
This is a video from the San Diego Zoo of flamingos feeding in the shallow water of their exhibit. Some more info about how flamingos feed while I feed the only way I know how– “Eating until you feel like you’re going to puke.” *loosening belt* It’s nature’s way of