This is a vintage video of truth-telling hip owner Shakira seeing a camera phone for the first time while on tour in Japan circa 2000. She says she’s thankful that the Japan-only phone model won’t work in America because otherwise the paparazzi would be going nuts. Little did she know
This is a video of several crash tests being conducted, pitting older model cars versus newer ones. Some more info while I remember to tape my bumper back on before my next state inspection. It’s all a racket! Unfortunately, as a vehicle ages, a number of factors come into play
This is a sizzle reel (think fajitas at Chili’s) for Hyundai Motor Group’s new Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a flat robotic platform on wheels that uses smart suspension and “eccentric wheel drive” powered by three motors in each wheel to keep its payload stabilized no matter the terrain. Some more
This is a video of engineer Shane Wighton of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here constructing and demonstrating an auto-aiming bow that does all the work for you. All you have to do is lift the bow in the general direction of the target (including launched targets, like the thrown ones
This is a video of virgin Facebook live-streamer Sharon Bunch Skipper (great name for a fisherwoman, btw) capturing the successful return of a beached hammerhead shark to the ocean by local fisherman when she realizes she doesn’t know how to end her live-stream, and proceeds to just film herself and
This is a video discussing and demonstrating a method for rendering a much more photorealistic version of Grand Theft Auto V using an artificial intelligence powered convolution network that produces images frame-by-frame at speeds fast enough to be run at interactive (read: playable) rates. Some more info that’s so far
This is an animation created using several real satellite images captured by the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope as the moon transitions earth. The images were taken at a distance of approximately 1,000,000 miles from the planet and feature a glimpse of the far side (aka
This is a video demonstration of MIT’s ‘LaserFactory’, a laser cutter that’s been modified into an fabrication platform capable of producing functional devices. In this video, it cuts the pieces necessary to build a drone, then pours silver into the circuit traces, attaches its electronic components, solders the silver in