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The Best Tech YouTube Channels You Don't Know About

There are thousands of smaller YouTube channels worth following, and these are some of our favorites.

Andrew Liszewski

6/25/21 8:30AM

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Former NASA Engineer Builds Mission Impossible-Style Obstacle Course to Protect His Nuts From Thieving Squirrels

One of the most popular YouTube videos of 2020 was from former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Mark Rober…

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Former NASA Engineer Builds a Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course to Stop Nut-Stealing Backyard Squirrels

If you’ve ever installed a backyard bird feeder in hopes of peacefully observing your fine feathered friends, you’re…

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A Former NASA Engineer and an Ex-Toy Designer Made a Steerable Bowling Ball That Always Gets Strikes

Mark Rober, a former NASA JPL engineer, recently teamed up with James Bruton, an ex-toy designer and all-around…

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What Kind of Sorcery Lets People Swim In This Sand-Filled Hot Tub?

You can try as hard as you want, but you’ll never be as cool an uncle as ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober. Using…

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Science Helps Reveal Which Carnival Games Are a Scam, and Which Ones You Can Actually Win

The prizes, the lights, the sounds, and a quick-talking barker make it hard to resist playing carnival games, but is…

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The World's Biggest Super Soaker Is Powerful Enough to Shatter Windows

Last summer, Mark Rober built the world’s largest Nerf dart gun, capable of blasting foam at 40 mph. Sure, that…

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The Greatest Hot Wheels Track Ever Built Ends With an Explosive Finale

Mark Rober, who we last saw engineering a dart board that guaranteed a bullseye with every throw, has just built…

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Brilliant Motion-Tracking Dart Board Guarantees a Bullseye With Every Throw

A night at a local pub isn’t complete without a few rounds of darts, but as your blood-alcohol level rises, your…

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Shooting Crazy Super Soakers Filled With Paint Is a Lot of Silly Fun

If you crossed a Super Soaker with a paintball gun, you’d get this wild creation from our friend Mark Rober: a crazy…

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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…

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What Happens When You Dive Into a Pool Filled With 25 Million Squishy Waterballs?

Would you sink or float if you were tossed into a gigantic vat of squishy gelatinous spheres, more popularly known…

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The World's Biggest Nerf Gun Can Shoot Darts at 40 MPH

Every child and every adult who wants to be a child again loves a good Nerf gun. They’re fun to shoot, whether…

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Bouncing On a Trampoline With Water Balloons Is the Best Way to Feel Like a Kid Again

Here’s how you spend a good summer day: find a giant trampoline, fill up 1,500 water balloons, and then bounce…

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Are Grenades Deadlier on Land or Under Water?

YouTube scientist Mark Rober and molten metal obsessive BackyardScientist teamed up to answer a simple question: is…

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This Easy to Understand Scale Model of Our Solar System Shows How Far Planet Nine Is

Using a football field, a drone, some peas, a few pepper flakes, grapes, and some people playing soccer, Mark Rober…

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Here's the Fastest Way to Defrost Your Car Windshield According to Science

It’s winter. If you drive a car that’s parked outside, you know what that means. It’s frigid as hell inside your car…

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How to Win Your Physics Class Egg Drop Competition

The problem is simple enough. You’ve got a raw egg, and it’s going to be dropped from a high place. You have to…

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Ingenious Infrared Microwave Shows Your Food Change Color As It Heats Up

After watching this video I feel like the best microwave I've ever used sucked very badly. What you see here is a…

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The Ugliest Christmas Sweaters Use a Little Pixel Magic

Last year, our pal (and former NASA JPL engineer) Mark Rober whipped up the first digital ugly Christmas sweater.…

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