Because one of the benefits from working from home is working pantless, a lot of people join virtual meetings in their underwear. OR LESS. Me? I always keep my camera off because my coworkers do NOT want to see what I’m doing, which is usually eating cereal out of the
Note: Video is not for the easily motion sick. This is a first person POV video from a projectile launched by SpinLaunch, an upstart company that aims (for the heavens!) to shoot small satellites and other space-bound equipment into the atmosphere using a giant centrifuge (aka suborbital mass accelerator). The
Because the future looks bleak, this is a video of a Xiaomi Cyberdog with a loudspeaker mounted on (read: taped to) its back patrolling the streets of Shanghai and broadcasting a COVID lockdown announcement. The Cyberdog, not to be confused with Boston Dynamics’ Spot, is able to navigate the city
This is a video of a small herd of baby goats being fed their bottles via a cleverly designed milk rack made especially for them. And speaking of milk-filled racks– “Here it comes…” The dairy section at the grocery store. There’s always that one gallon of 2% at the very
Because you don’t know until you try, the Trentham Monkey Forest in Stafford, England hired Marvin Gaye impersonator David Largie to sing to their endangered Barbary macaques in an attempt to get them in the mood for loving>/a>. I mean we are both primates, what works for humans must work
Because this world is probably the strangest place you’ll ever visit, this is a video of someone in Hangzhou, China lowering a mitten crab (named because of their furry claws) down on a rope to retrieve a shirt that fell from their balcony while drying. That’s pretty wild. “Quick —
This is a video of a baggage carousel at Singapore’s Changi Airport that can identify when a piece of luggage is passing and makes incoming bags wait their turn to drop onto the conveyor to prevent potential pile-ups. Clever. Granted I didn’t know baggage pile-ups were an issue, but I
This is a video from (I believe) Russia of an elderly man using a homemade motorized pulley system operated with a remote control to access his 3rd floor apartment via the unit’s balcony. That…does not look like it would be up to code around here. But hey, whatever works. Although