Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

Playing Pong While Climbing a Wall Looks Like a Lot of Stupid Fun

Every work week should end with a quick game of wall climbing Pong. That is, a game of Pong that is projected onto a rock climbing wall that tracks your body parts as paddles so that the ball reacts appropriately to each hit. It looks fun because you’re actively maneuvering your body around to smack…

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Watch a Train Get Assembled for the Subway

Seeing a train get assembled is a lot like watching someone play with Lego bricks, only if that someone was God and the Lego bricks were stupid ginormous. This timelapse of a London Elizabeth line train being built out at Bombardier in Derby is especially cool because it seems like pieces and parts are just…

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10 Famous Movie Scenes That Actually Just Copied Other Movies

It’s not really a secret that filmmakers influence other filmmakers or that movies inspire other movies. That’s just how things work. What’s more interesting is learning the origin story behind famous movie scenes, like how a Nazi propaganda film influenced Star Wars—or how The Shining’s “Here’s Johnny!” scene was a carbon copy of a silent…

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Transforming a Horseshoe Into a Super Sharp Knife Is Pretty Clever

You can basically transform anything made out of metal into a working knife—if you blast it with enough heat, pound it enough times with a hammer, and then sharpen it over and over again. Even an old horseshoe can become an implement of danger. Watch as Miller Knives uses the U-shape of the shoe to…

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Fun Video Edits Together Your Favorite Movie Characters Into One Awesome Bathroom Scene

As a continuation to last year’s classic video edit Hell’s Club, where Antonio Maria Da Silva of AMDS Films stitched together famous movie characters into one tremendous club scene, comes this epic bathroom scene. Characters like Tony Montana from Scarface and Tyler Durden from Fight Club can get into a brawl, while Jack Torrance from…

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The Staggering Evolution of Stop-Motion in Film History

Filmmakers have been stop-motion animation for eons, but holy crap man, people have gotten really, really good at it. This video by Vugar Efendi tracks the evolution of stop motion in film starting with The Enchanted Drawing in 1900, which was really just a drawing of a face changing facial expressions, all the way up…

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Forging a Badass Tomahawk from an Old Wrench Is Really Clever

Every wrench sitting in a toolbox wants to grow up to become a tomahawk. That’s because the locked jaw of a wrench actually makes for a pretty perfect axehead after it gets heated and treated and, well, hammered into shape. The key is to flatten out the U-shape of the wrench into a straight line…

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Why Glass Bottles Shatter at the Bottom When You Smack the Top with Your Bare Hands

There’s nothing quite like using the scientific method to figure out what’s happening in a silly party trick that we’ve seen way too many times (if you’ve been to bad parties, at least): the ol’ smack the top of a glass bottle and watch the bottom burst out in shards gag. The always intrepid Mark…

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Here’s One Brilliantly Tense Movie Scene

I’ve been impressed with the films of director Denis Villeneuve and enjoyed a good amount of Sicario so it’s pretty fun to share this CineFix analysis of a ridiculously tense sequence in the movie. If you haven’t seen the movie, you can still probably enjoy the exhaustive breakdown of the scene but if you have…

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Why Bugs Bunny Is the Ultimate Animated American Icon

Mickey Mouse is obviously more well-known than Bugs Bunny. But there’s a kitschy globalization aspect to Mickey that Bugs has somehow managed to avoid ,even though they both served as mascots for their companies (Disney and Warner Bros., respectively). How did Bugs do it? Kaptain Kristian breaks down the difference between Mickey and Bugs as…

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Watch a Powerful Laser Beam Push a Piece of Foil Forward

A strong enough laser can burn things, clean things, pop things, and most impressively, move things. Yep. Watch this powerful laser shining into a piece of aluminum foil suspended in a vacuum and you’ll see the foil starting to sway back and forth from the ultra light beam. Cody’s Lab says “the light imparts momentum(P=E/C)”…

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Just Look at This Freaking Giant Black Slug

Gulp. Just look at how ridiculous this thing looks. It’s a giant black sea slug known as a sea hare and it’s freaking monstrous. You don’t really hold it in your hand as much as the sea hare, which can grow up to over 3 feet long and weigh over 30 pounds, just swallows your…

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How a Tattoo Gun Is Made in Prison

People in prison are so damn resourceful that they can turn a pen, a Walkman, a couple of paper clips, a few rubber bands, and a set of batteries into a fully functional tattoo gun. The motor, battery pack, and switch come from a Walkman that’s torn apart, the ink obviously comes from the pen,…

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This Is What it Must Feel Like to See the Invisible

It’s called the Schlieren effect and it means that you can see stuff that’s invisible to the human eye, like changes in air density. So when you turn on a hair dryer, you can see the blast of air it shoots out. When you open a can of Coke, you can see what’s escaping into…

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This Tribute to Touching in Movies Isn’t Too Creepy

I totally expected a supercut of touching in movies to be a bit on the creepy side but this compilation actually handles it with a surprising amount of grace. It includes some meaningful touchy scenes like Finn holding a light saber for the first time in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fingers grazing the ring…

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Trying to See All the Art in All the Museums in London in One Day Looks Like a Fun Time

Okay, it’s probably hell if you actually tried it. Alex Gorosh visited 13 museums in London, saw more than 140,000 works of art, and walked more than 22 miles in one day in an attempt to see all the art there is to see in London. He didn’t even see more than 1 percent of…

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Why the Heck Do Some Countries Have Weird Panhandles?

If you look closely at a map, you’re bound to find some really weird shit. Countries you never knew existed pop up, bodies of water reveal themselves, and the borders of countries look totally random. What’s more random about those borders is when they have weird panhandles or salients, basically appendages of land that have…

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Playing Ping Pong with Random Objects Is Totally Goofy

Sure, some random objects like a frying pan and a shovel make some sort of sense to use as a ping pong paddle replacement. But an iron? A kitchen knife? A wooden spoon? A rolling pin? Just watch these two dudes get wild with their paddle ideas. Even though they’re doing it as a goofy…

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Actors Playing Presidents, From FDR to Obama

Of all the movie presidents—not fictional presidents like Morgan Freeman’s President Tom Beck in Deep Impact, but rather, actors’ portrayals of real presidents—which one did his best? To help you decide, Candice Drouet put together a quick video showing actors playing presidents, including Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kevin Spacey as Richard Nixon, Jon…

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Making Stop Motion Animation Looks Really Hard

I mean, the animator in the gif above changes his shirt at least four times before he’s able to make the Ninja Monkey doll walk, like, a couple of steps. That’s a lot of time spent animating the most basic of motions lasting just seconds. Imagine all the elbow grease that goes into the more…

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Casey Chan

Playing Pong While Climbing a Wall Looks Like a Lot of Stupid Fun

Watch a Train Get Assembled for the Subway

10 Famous Movie Scenes That Actually Just Copied Other Movies

Transforming a Horseshoe Into a Super Sharp Knife Is Pretty Clever

Fun Video Edits Together Your Favorite Movie Characters Into One Awesome Bathroom Scene

The Staggering Evolution of Stop-Motion in Film History

Forging a Badass Tomahawk from an Old Wrench Is Really Clever

Why Glass Bottles Shatter at the Bottom When You Smack the Top with Your Bare Hands

Here’s One Brilliantly Tense Movie Scene

Why Bugs Bunny Is the Ultimate Animated American Icon

Watch a Powerful Laser Beam Push a Piece of Foil Forward

Just Look at This Freaking Giant Black Slug

How a Tattoo Gun Is Made in Prison

This Is What it Must Feel Like to See the Invisible

This Tribute to Touching in Movies Isn’t Too Creepy

Trying to See All the Art in All the Museums in London in One Day Looks Like a Fun Time

Why the Heck Do Some Countries Have Weird Panhandles?

Playing Ping Pong with Random Objects Is Totally Goofy

Actors Playing Presidents, From FDR to Obama

Making Stop Motion Animation Looks Really Hard

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