This is a video demonstration of a Sparck Technologies packaging machine creating a perfectly sized box for a product (in this case a loose Peppa Pig plushie), using 3D imaging to calculate its precise dimensions. It then packages the item in the box for shipment. How about that! Of course
This is some wing-cam footage of pilot Vincent Fraser making an emergency landing on a North Carolina mountain highway following the failure of his Aero Commander 100’s engine. He does a great job, and it looks like a textbook emergency landing. Of course he’s lucky that happened in the mountains
This is a video of Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Jonathan David making a spectacular diving catch at the outfield wall, going headfirst into the padding and popping his hat off in the process. Nice work! Related: I used to drink a lot of Milwaukee’s Best Ice. Probably too much.
These are a couple Instagram videos (swipe the embed to see the other) of very lively Chinese artist 超哥的烧火棍 (aka Super Brother’s Fire Stick) creating a couple sketches (including an upside-down one!) with the charred end of a burning stick. Is this the same technique used by early humans to
Presumably trying to piggyback on the previous performer’s trash inspired performance art, this is a video of environmental activist Rob Greenfield wearing a suit he made containing all the trash he allegedly accumulated over the course of 27 days, totally 62 pounds. Honestly, it’s a better look than some of
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