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

Built by Xiaomi Global, CyberOne is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot capable of, among other things, some basic drumming. It might not be able to perform a face-melting solo that will end with underwear being thrown on stage, but robots have little interest in underwear anyways. Me? Underwear has always

Hopefully named Johnny 5 Appleseed or its creators completely blew it, this is a video of a robotic apple harvester picking about 30 apples in a minute, using the latest in apple-identifying technology and its six suction-cupped hands to get the job done. That’s cool. For reference, I’ve never actually

This is a video of a Tesla in full self-driving mode plowing through a mannequin child (complete with reflective vest) in a crosswalk at 24MPH, the car never identifying the object at all. Apparently Tesla has demanded The Dawn Project (who created the video) cease-and-desist, although I’m not sure on

This is a video of ABC 7 Chicago weatherman Greg Dutra, who discovers the weather monitor is actually a touchscreen, and instantly turns into a big child. Precious moments. Also, you’d really think the IT department would have let him know the weather monitor was actually a touchscreen, but noooooooo,

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