Because even Usher has birthdays, this is a video of multiple limbo-related world record holder Shemika Campbell limboing under a pole the height of a champagne bottle (it’s resting on the tops of two champagne bottles) carrying a drink tray in each hand, WITH drinks, to celebrate the singer’s birthday.
Because soon all sports will be played entirely by robots, this is a video of Google’s i-S2R ping pong playing robot completing a 4-minute, 340-shot rally with a human before it nets a ball because clearly there’s still work to be done. That’s cool, but why did they name it
Note: Check your volume, yelling. Because Mother Nature is everywhere and she’s pissed, this is some helmet-cam footage from a climber in Japan being attacked by a bear. If you watch the footage closely you may notice the bear has a cub with it, so it probably felt it was
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
Because why should you be inconvenienced after making a mistake when you can just inconvenience and/or seriously injure other people, this is a video of a motorist who missed their exit on a highway stopping in the middle of the road in order to make the return to the exit,
Because dream it and you can achieve it (in this case through trial-and-error), this is a video of Joseph of Joseph’s Machines and his friends being fed a five course meal by a conveyor belt powered Rube Goldberg machine. It’s pretty awesome, and if I could be fed all my
This is a video of two fitness buffs demonstrating ‘a double front lever walk with a friend.’ That’s cool, I could do that. I mean, if I had a friend. And arm muscles. And a core that isn’t just chocolate fudge. Thanks to Erica, who agrees these guys must kill
Because killing two birds with one stone is actually much more traumatizing in real life (remember that Andy Griffith episode?) than it is in proverbial form, this is a video of a home full of transforming furniture that all serve double-duty. There’s a sofa that transforms into bunk beds, lounger