Constructed by engineer James Hobson of The Hacksmith, this is a functional replica of the Level 2 Sentry Turret seen in multiplayer first person shooter Team Fortress 2. The turret is built around two Nerf knock-off X-Shot Insanity Motorized Rage Fire guns capable of firing 200 darts/minute and has AI-powered

This is a video from filmmaker Tyler Johnson, who modded a cat exercise wheel with an Insta360 camera to capture some unorthodox footage of his cat exercising. Not exactly what I was hoping for from Santa, but I suppose it’s better than coal or taking turns with the reindeer pooping

Sold by the Anvy Luna Store on Amazon (affiliate link), this wine bottle aerator looks like a skull puking blood as you pour. Available in silver and gold finishes, if skulls aren’t your thing (they should be everybody’s thing is the thing), they also have deer and lion head models

This is a video edited by game developer John C. Worsley, who used a bunch of clips from Star Trek: The Original Series to have the characters perform John Lennon’s ‘Happy XMas (War Is Over)’. And while the Vietnam War is over, war as a whole most certainly isn’t. And,

This is a video of ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctor Gustavo Gosling of Rio de Janeiro demonstrating his exoskeletal legs, which provide a seat simply by squatting. That’s handy. Especially for surgeons and people like me who hate standing. Every chance I get and I’m sitting, and, if there’s

This is an 8-hour Youtube video just released by NASA in the form of a traditional yule log video, except it’s an untraditional rocket engine instead. I’m already warming my hands against my computer screen! Just what you need for the holidays… the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket

Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?

This is a video of Japanese guitarist/composer/producer Masayoshi Takanaka performing jazz pianist Mal Waldron’s ‘Left Alone’ on a guitar that has a functional model train running around it. How about that! The train only goes around the outside of the body then stops and reverses though, it doesn’t actually cross