Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

How to Maybe Stop Procrastinating

Everybody procrastinates. Well, every sane person does. That’s because it’s nice to not think about what we have to do and it’s so much funner to just play video games and distract ourselves from reality. But then eventually we still have to do the thing we had to do and we now have less time…

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Brilliant Short Film Tells the Memories of a Family with a Tour of Their Empty Home

This short film, Hiraeth by Trent Jaklitsch, is absolutely wonderful. Without seeing any actors and without seeing any relationships on screen, you’re still able to develop an emotional attachment to the family through a tour of their empty home. Each room represents a memory in their life and hearing those memories and feeling their progression…

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A Lovely Ode to the Sounds of a Mechanical Keyboard

Clickety Clack. The sounds of a mechanical keyboard are just so soothing. There’s such a satisfying audible (and physical) reaction whenever you hit the keys, like hey, press this button and you’ll feel good. Here’s Pseudorandom using the mechanical keyboard as an instrument for a song. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook,…

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What’s Inside a Record Player and How It Works

A record player is always going to be a little magical. How it sounds, the nostalgia of it, the vinyls, the needle, and so forth. This exploded view of a record player plays down the specialness of its sound and breaks down what’s inside and how it works. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

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You’re Washing Your Hands Wrong. Here’s How to Wash Your Hands the Right Way

Apparently, there are two schools of thought when it comes to washing your hands. There’s the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) approved way, which we all do already. Which is wrong. And there’s the WHO (World Health Organization) method, which is better and cleaner and “microbiologically more effective”. Which is right. The CDC…

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This Is How an Airplane Picks Up a Banner While Flying in the Air

Ever wonder how those advertising airplanes that annoy you at beaches get their flying banners attached to the airplane? Me neither. I thought the planes just had those banners attached when they took off. Not the case! Apparently, the planes have to first be flying before they hook onto a specific target in order to…

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Short Film Tells a Touching Story About a Father and Son’s Relationship with Video Games

People leave memories in the most unexpected ways and when you run into them, you want to hold onto it forever because you don’t know when you’ll ever get it back. Here’s a sad but touching short film about a son re-discovering the Xbox he shared with his late father and the racing game that…

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Interesting Animation Explains How Airplanes Are Able to Fly

Drag. Thrust. Lift. Jet engines. Propellers. Wings. This animation breaks down just exactly how an airplane flies and it’s pretty damn interesting. Each design element of the plane basically solves a law of physics and is part of the reason how an airplane can fly. Take the shape of a wing, it produces lift from…

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Watch What Snake Venom Does to Human Blood

Blood isn’t supposed to plop out like a solid like that but that’s what happens when a snake’s hemotoxic venom gets mixed in with human blood, it thickens liquid blood into this congealed jelly substance. It’s pretty gross. But this is how a venomous snakebite affects the body of its prey, a lot of tiny…

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Why Time Is One of Humanity’s Greatest and Most Important Inventions

Without the pendulum clock, the Industrial Revolution doesn’t happen. Without the quartz clock, the technology in the digital revolution doesn’t happen. It’s time, weirdly enough, that advanced our world. How? The pendulum clock (conceived by Galileo, made by Christiaan Huygens) was useful for accurate timekeeping because the time it takes for a pendulum to swing…

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Seeing These Card Tricks Up Close Almost Makes You Believe in Magic

Magician Patrick Kun isn’t breaking the wheel when it comes to these magic tricks but the way he packages them: short and sweet and right in front of the camera with little to no explanation, it makes watching magic sso much more fun. There’s no long build up, there’s no need to weave a senseless…

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Words That Were Invented Because We Actually Just Got Them Wrong

The lesson, as always, is that we’re dumb. All of us. Even the smartest among us can never save us because we’re all so dumb. Why? Because when we hear the wrong words, we don’t bother to fix ourselves but instead adopt those wrong words into our language even though they’re clearly wrong. It’s great!…

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Recreating Food Emojis in Real Life Is a Lot of Fun

Here are picture perfect recreations of the food emojis we all love to drop in our text messages. You know the ones: the pizza slice, the taco, the foamy beer, the donut. Bon Appetit used a food stylist to recreate these popular emojis and it’s crazy how exacting their methods can be. To get the…

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Here’s a Blasting Cap Blowing Up Ballistics Gel in Slow Motion

Some really cool things happen when FullMag decided to blow up ballistics gel with some blasting caps. First, when the blasting cap detonates, the gel basically erupts and explodes into this dancing substance. But it doesn’t break! The flubber gel just expands wildly until it withstands the blow and then just traps the remnants of…

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Watch Six Bulldozers Battle Each Other on the Streets of China in the Craziest Fight Ever

This is madness. Like, seriously what in the hell is going on. In northern China, multiple bulldozers apparently got so mad at each other that they started one of the craziest demolition derbies I’ve ever seen on a public road. It’s a legitimate royal rumble between heavy machinery. There are normal cars on the street…

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Honest Short Film Exposes the Lies People Tell on Social Media

Everybody lies. We can’t help it. We exaggerate details to seem more fun, we highlight specifics to get more sympathy, and we fish for other people’s reactions to make us feel better. And with the social media handcuff we lock onto ourselves everyday with our phone addiction, we lie even more on the Internet to…

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Lovely Animation Illustrates Life Using Different Circles

It’s the circle of life! Well, not quite but sort of. This great short animation from production company Chromosphere highlights the world we live in and the worlds beyond our world through the clever use of circles. Right smack dab in the middle of the frame, watch as the circles transform into animals and planets…

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Forging This Beautifully Intricate Sword Is So Damn Impressive

Do you remember the Green Destiny sword from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I didn’t. But that damascus steel blade finished with jade is so damn gorgeous and stunningly detailed that after seeing the guys at Baltimore Knife and Sword make it, I don’t think I’ll ever forget it again. The whole build process is so…

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Making Traditional Wooden Lacrosse Sticks

Here’s how a traditional wooden lacrosse stick gets made. You get to see how it’s done from the search for the right type of hickory tree to the splitting of the wood in halves and quarters and eighths to the steaming and bending and knitting and everything in between, it’s actually a humble process to…

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Incredible Views of the Aurora Borealis from Space Makes the Earth Look Like an Alien Planet

We expect the Earth to always be this beautiful blue marble but at some angles and at some times, it glows differently. Like if you just looked at the glorious Aurora Borealis from space, the planet would have this eery alien green glow to it. This stunning footage from NASA of both the Aurora Borealis…

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Casey Chan

How to Maybe Stop Procrastinating

Brilliant Short Film Tells the Memories of a Family with a Tour of Their Empty Home

A Lovely Ode to the Sounds of a Mechanical Keyboard

What’s Inside a Record Player and How It Works

You’re Washing Your Hands Wrong. Here’s How to Wash Your Hands the Right Way

This Is How an Airplane Picks Up a Banner While Flying in the Air

Short Film Tells a Touching Story About a Father and Son’s Relationship with Video Games

Interesting Animation Explains How Airplanes Are Able to Fly

Watch What Snake Venom Does to Human Blood

Why Time Is One of Humanity’s Greatest and Most Important Inventions

Seeing These Card Tricks Up Close Almost Makes You Believe in Magic

Words That Were Invented Because We Actually Just Got Them Wrong

Recreating Food Emojis in Real Life Is a Lot of Fun

Here’s a Blasting Cap Blowing Up Ballistics Gel in Slow Motion

Watch Six Bulldozers Battle Each Other on the Streets of China in the Craziest Fight Ever

Honest Short Film Exposes the Lies People Tell on Social Media

Lovely Animation Illustrates Life Using Different Circles

Forging This Beautifully Intricate Sword Is So Damn Impressive

Making Traditional Wooden Lacrosse Sticks

Incredible Views of the Aurora Borealis from Space Makes the Earth Look Like an Alien Planet

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

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