Roller skate sword fighting: apparently it’s a real thing that people are doing, as evidenced by these videos from the CRABS Historical Fencing society in Nova Scotia (there must have been some pretty wild sword battles in Nova Scotia’s past). I’m a great roller skater, but there’s no doubt in

A partnership between biotech startup Lab-Grown Leather, genomic engineering firm The Organoid Company and creative agency VML, T-Rex Leather is lab-grown leather created using the reconstructed collagen sequences of a t-rex. Some more details while I speculate how long until Texas Roadhouse is grilling dino steaks. To engineer leather from

This is a clip from a livestream of the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines (the country’s most active volcano) that captured a meteor speeding by behind the active eruption. How about that! But are we SURE it was a meteor? Because MAYBE– “It’s not Frodo trying to throw the One

This is a video of Unitree’s $650,000 GD01, a giant 1/2 ton humanoid mecha a person can ride inside. It can either walk upright bipedal human style, or transform and walk on all fours like a terrifying robotic animal. The sound of it clanking down the street — that was

Recently a number of driverless Waymo Jaguar I-PACE taxis have been swarming an Atlanta suburb due to a misrouting issue. Then, when residents put up a ‘SLOW, CHILDREN PLAYING’ sign to prevent more from entering, all the Waymos panicked and created a traffic jam. Waymo claims they’ve seen fixed the

This is some drone footage from filmmaker Devon Massyn of the underwater volcano Kavachi in the Solomon Islands erupting. It’s pretty wild. And the sound! The volcanic activity heats and expands nearby water so quickly it’s the equivalent of a hot tub full of water instantly expanding to the size

This is a hype reel from AI humanoid robot manufacturer Figure, which, in the last 120 days, has scaled manufacturing of their F.03 humanoid robots from 1 a day to more than 1 every hour. They will produce 55 robots this week, and the scaling continues. Presumably until they have

This is a video of a giant switchblade hairstyle created by unorthodox barber laoqiao666. And, I think I speak for everyone in the history of forever on earth and every other planet when I say that haircut looks…sharp. Get it? “Like cheddar.” Exactly like cheddar. I only wish they made