This is a video of a dynamic bar graph detailing the most used instant messaging services as measured per monthly users from 1998 – 2024. God, I remember when AOL Instant Messenger was all there was. I am old. Before that we sent messages tied to a bird’s foot. So

Because this is the internet, here’s a video of artist Pablo Rochat recreating the nearly bygone bouncing DVD logo in a hot pan with a block of carved butter. I can’t even remember the last time I watched a DVD, but it definitely wasn’t in the 2020’s. I know because

These are a couple clips of the latest iteration of the Jetson One personal electric VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) vehicle. Apparently they’re happy enough with its current state that the company will begin delivering to customers later this year ($128,000 — no pilot’s license required in the US!). Exciting

Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, these noise-cancelling headphones are able to cancel all outside noise except for a person’s voice through the power of AI. You just push a button on the side of the phones to train the AI on a person’s vocal patterns, and BOOM,

This is a video from the recent Adobe MAX 2023 conference of researcher Christine Dierk unveiling Project Primrose, a dress covered with reflective LCD scales that can change patterns instantly, or even be animated. Adobe imagines designers “layering this technology into clothing, furniture, and other surfaces to unlock infinite style

This is a video of mathematician Ashley Christine (aka Modern Day Eratosthenes) explaining why wormhole style teleportation would be much preferred to Star Trek style beaming, although we’re technologically closer to the beaming. Basically, Star Trek teleportation involves scanning a body, disintegrating it, then reassembling it somewhere else with the

Floppy disks: they’re a thing of the past. And space: it’s the future. And, okay, my past, but I did grow up there. But enough about how stars are born, these are a couple enhanced videos of astronaut William Shepard ejecting floppy disks in space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery

This is ‘Bob Ross and his crazy AI painting’, a video created by Miha Mastnak with the help of artificial intelligence that imagines a series of canvases on Bob’s easel that gradually follow a river upstream. The future: it’s terrifying. I mean the past is pretty terrifying too, and the