This is a video of an exhilarating trip down the 800-foot roller slide in Tabayama, Japan. It’s Japan’s longest roller slide (with a sliding surface of metal rollers like you’d imagine boxes traveling along in a factory) and opened in 1990. “The slide has no seat belts, helmets or much
This is some footage from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) of Bathydevius caudactylus, aka the mystery mollusc. It lives in the midnight zone (1000 – 4000m) of Monterey Bay, and is recognized as a swimming sea slug. But can it really be a slug if it can swim?
This is some insane GoPro helmetcam footage of firefighter Joseth Abel Espinosa of Santiago, Chile battling a raging house fire. It’s nuts. Thankfully, there were no casualties in the fire except for the house, which burnt to an absolute crisp. Kinda like how my roommate cooks everything. Honestly, I’m surprised
Created by Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions, the Passive-Aggressive Punching Bag affixes to the side of your desk and plugs into your computer, generating a randomly selected passive-aggressive opening line to emails with a simple punch. A great idea, I just wish it continued to compose an angry email the
This is a short but perfect synopsis of the internet in the form of an Iron Man transforming helmet cosplay. How people even come up with stuff like this I will never know, but I suspect it involves having a brain with 4x the imaginative processing power of an average
These are a couple videos from Vancouver Island woodworker Connor Nijsse, who discovered a wall stuffed with 110 stuffed animals to act as insulation in a farmhouse he was renovating. Hey, whatever works. Sure your children are going to be upset when you start taking their Beanie Babies, but would
This is a clip of a recent Wheel Of Fortune contestant incorrectly solving the puzzle ‘GIVE YOURSELF A ROUND OF APPLAUSE’ with his far superior answer ‘TREAT YOURSELF A ROUND OF SAUSAGE’. Now it probably goes without saying, but if this doesn’t replace the original in our vocabulary, we have
This is a video from long-haul truck driver alexnnino demonstrating the assembly of an emergency toilet he keeps in the cabin in the event nature calls but he isn’t near a phone (read: restroom) to answer that call. It’s basically a folding metal stand with a toilet seat on top