Call in Sick Just So You Can Watch This Lego Machine All Day Long
The wobbly gear on Japanese Lego genius Akiyuky’s latest Great Ball Contraption might be the most hypnotic piece of…
Almost 4,000 Feet of String Wind Through This Pointlessly Complicated Pulley Clock
As far as complicated clocks go, it’s going to be hard to top Felix Vorreiter’s FLUX 1440, which displays the time…
Your Brain Will Want to Watch This Impossible Bundle of Spinning Gears Forever
Occasionally you come across a video that’s so satisfying to watch that your brain never wants you to close the tab.…
Samsung Gear S Review: But I Don't Wanna Be Dick Tracy
Samsung started the smartwatch push in earnest with its over-the-top Galaxy Gear just last year. Now, some six…
Samsung's Gear S—Samsung's first smartwatch that is literally also a phone with a SIM card and a phone number—is coming…
The Samsung Gear S Gets a Smartwatch Keyboard You Might Actually Use
Fleksy has created a keyboard to work with the upcoming Samsung Gear S. Will it make typing on a tiny smartwatch screen …
This mind-bending machine completes one turn every 2.3 trillion years
This machine by Arthur Ganson just blew my mind: its engine runs at 200 revolutions per minute but the last gear of…
Watch these interlocking gears spin at a mindbending 4,500 rpm
Mitsubishi Corporation has developed a set of three interlocking gears that can move around in different movement…
5 Creatures That Have Evolved Into Badass Biological Machines
The natural world might be awe-inspiring, but that’s not to say that it doesn’t share similarities with the…
It's Amazing These Perfectly Synced Gears Don't Shred Each Other
If you've ever shuddered at the sound of the gears grinding on your car's manual transmission, you might have a hard…
This Insect Grows Its Own Microscopic Gears to Move Absurdly Fast
When you think of the fastest accelerators in the animal kingdom, large, muscular mammals will probably be the first…
You'll Go Insane Trying To Understand How These Interwoven Gears Can Possibly Work
3D printing has promised us a future where everything will be available on demand, not just media. But in the…
This Cube Made of Gears Shouldn't Work, But It Does
Watching this cube slowly turn itself inside out as its internal gears mesh together is a mesmerizing and puzzling…
If Google Axes Six Unpopular Brands and Nobody Is Around to Use Them, Does Their Demise Make a Sound?
History is littered with the corpses of failed products—from Edsels and DeLoreans to Zunes and everything on CBS's…
Hand-Cranked Machine Plays Catch with Itself
There's something that's oddly hypnotic about watching this hand-cranked machine slice, drop and catch these small…
Watch These Impossible Gears Turn Anyway
Square gears. Oval gears. Friggin goldfish and squid gears. My brain says none of these should work, but my eyes beg…
Watch How Watches Work
How do those second hands keep ticking off the minutes, and minute hands the hours, and hours the days? The same way…
Working Gear Ring Geared Towards Gear Heads
Sometimes, and only sometimes, a piece of geek jewelry can rise above being tacky and decidedly unwearable to become…
Is Google Gears Dead?
It was over two years ago when Google announced Gears, which promised to make Google services—and potentially lots…
Offline Gmail Gets Attachment Support
According to Google, one of the most requested features for offline Gmail users was the ability to include attachments…