This is the video of the Slow Mo Guys banging a drum covered in a rainbow of paint powder to capture the movement of the pigment in ultra slow motion as the shockwaves blast it all over the place. I can’t imagine this being a rainbow anybody would want to
This is a video of the Great Ball Contraption (GBC) of Japan Brickfest 2025, constructed using 49 different ball-moving LEGO modules from eight master LEGO builders. The machine spans a very respectable 31 meters (102 feet). Damn, that is a lot of ball moving! Me? When I’m uncomfortable at the
Developed by researchers at the Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia along with researchers from Centro E. Piaggio at the University of Pisa (teamwork!), the SoftFoot Pro is a flexible artificial foot designed to mimic a human foot in order to adapt to the terrain it’s standing on. And it requires no
Because time is moving at warp speed and Christmas is just 15 days away (despite my best efforts to slow it down so I have time to make meaningful gifts instead of grabbing a bunch of gift cards at the grocery store checkout like I’m going to do), this is
This is a video of acrobat and glizzy performance artist Jacob Grégoire performing a series of hot dog tricks. Apparently Jacob is one of Peter Pan’s Lost Boys and never grew out of playing with his food. I respect that. Damn he make them wieners look good! I can’t even
Because…okay I have absolutely no idea why (but hopefully just a college design project), this is a video of a cat carrier that unzips from the rear of a pair of pants, allowing a cat to be carried directly behind the owner’s ass. “But what did you have for lunch?”
This is allegedly a video of a tele-operated Optimus (Prime is insulted) humanoid robot from Tesla serving water bottles at an event when it appears to mimic the movements of the person operating it by taking off its invisible tele-operator headset, collapsing in the process. Whoops! Still, I do find
This is a video from photographer Vadim Makhorov, who used a drone to capture footage of a group of polar bears who have claimed the abandoned weather station on Koluchin Island (located in Russia’s remote Chukotka region) as their own. I say let them have it! Apparently the weather is