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Daft punk is a popular band – for example, over 2 million fans on their Facebook page. Part of their look is the helmets, as seen in this interview: What if you would like to create one of the helmets yourself? Not an easy task, but it has been done through an amazing and painstaking [...]
You will look at this blog and you will never think about pancakes in the same way again:
In the following video he demonstrates how to make bacon and eggs pancakes (that is, pancakes that look like bacon and eggs using 3 different colors of pancake batter)…
It’s funny… and it’s brilliant. The thing that makes it brilliant is the amount of design talent and knowledge needed to create the mechanics of AND the electronics AND the printer driver for this unorthodox printer. See it in action in this video…
What does it look like when baseball-size hail falls from the sky? What does it look like if a thousand dump trucks in the sky, all full of baseball-size hail, all let loose at once? Here’s the answer in the form of an unbelievable and amazing video…
Just watch this video – it is both amazing and unbelievable (until you see it with your own eyes). People have learned how to run on water, and they are calling it Liquid Mountaineering: So you watch the video and you may think that it is impossible. Or maybe it is an elaborate hoax, with [...]
This video shows you seven fascinating robots: At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success. More robots here: [...]
In the following video, a guy demonstrates that he has Android dual-booting on an iPhone: See also: Android running on iPhone! When you think of how much knowledge, talent and time it must have taken to pull that off, it just boggles the mind. It is not something physical like a Dash-mounted iPad or a [...]
There are several fascinating quotes in the following video, including: “Amazingly, the Census of Marine Life estimates that all microbes in the global ocean collectively weigh the equivalent of 240 billion African elephants.” An African elephant weights approximately 10,000 pounds, so let’s say they weigh as much as 70 average people. So the microbes weigh [...]
If you watch this video, you will be able to witness for yourself a very interesting property of smoke: What you can see here is that smoke is flammable. You can light a trail of smoke several inches away from the wick and a flame front will burn down the smoke to reignite the wick. [...]
We have seen people building some amazing things: Amazing – what people can build Here is another one – a person who has built his own complete pinball machine pretty much from scratch, and then describes the whole process: Bill Paxton Pinball “Making Of” part 1 If you have ever thought of building your own [...]
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