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Whoever thought that putting a game involving sharp pointed darts in a pub where people are getting drunk clearly wasn’t worried about safety. Foot Darts—a mashup of soccer and darts played with velcro-covered balls and a giant inflatable target—looks a little safer. Although we imagine it’d be just as difficult to hit the massive bullseye…
Dubai is equal parts engineering marvel and rich person playground. It’s where drones race pricey supercars and skateboarders rent out and drain entire waterparks for their amusement. It’s also where BASE jumpers Chris Douggs McDougall and Jimmy Pouchert shot themselves 300 feet into the air just for the fuck of it. Sure we’ve seen many,…
What’s worse than being alone on a post-apocalyptic Earth? Being stuck with someone you absolutely can’t stand. This short animation, After the End from Sam Southward, shows what happens when the last two men on Earth battle it out for a sex doll, all while doing a bunch of drugs, drinking a bunch of alcohol,…
Is it too hot where you live right now? It’s probably too hot where you live right now. So escape to the fjords of Norway, where you can forget about the muggy weather and imagine the still beauty of seeing inlets surrounded by cliffs, and pretend you’re in a different world where awful, muggy summers…
Sorry, I don’t care if you caught a Squirkachu on Pokemon GTFO, because the only video game that will matter after today is Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. It pits hilariously brainless putty humanoids in red versus hilariously brainless putty humanoids in blue in the most ridiculous battle sequences. The two armies are armed with medieval…
If you didn’t grow up in the American Midwest, you’ve probably never truly experienced the fury of a tornado-spewing summer thunderstorm. Storm chaser and wedding photographer Mike Olbinski edited 60,000 frames worth of timelapse sequences into this six-minute montage called Vorticity that will leave you with a new respect for Mother Nature. If the Independence…
As far as complicated clocks go, it’s going to be hard to top Felix Vorreiter’s FLUX 1440, which displays the time using a simple pulley system, and over 3,900 feet of white string covered in what looks like random marks. However, as layers of the string align inside the clock’s various pulleys, so do those…
It’s a lot of freaking weight. The stress test on this cheap Olympic bar reveals that the straight metal bar can lift an immeasurable amount of weight before it buckles and permanently bends itself out of shape. When it’s just lifting normal plates and the like, Beyond the Press counted nearly 1,500 pounds of weight…
College is expensive. Students are in debt. Why? Wendover Productions analyzes what makes higher education so expensive in this country, and some of the reasons he cites you can assume: professors cost money and new facilities are expensive. But a surprising reason why college costs so damn much is that there are more people attending…
This is a really captivating look at how wooden objects are made in small villages across China. This video shows how residents of Shawo Village—a community with only 270 households—use foot-powered lathes to make their wooden bowls, utensils, tools, toys, and more. It’s just fascinating to see the process of it all: from the selection…
Can you imagine if buildings in a city could grow and bend on a whim as if they were living, breathing organisms? This short film, Spatial Bodies by AUJIK, plays with that concept, transforming the cityscape of Osaka into a totally trippy world where the laws of physics and gravity don’t really exist and buildings…
That little bead right there? That’s all the gold in four and a half pounds of electronics waste. And it took so very much work to get there. Here’s what YouTuber is no stranger to the refinement of precious metals. Previously he’s gotten silver from shit-tier fireworks and found platinum dust on the side of…
Life is all about compromises and trade-offs. The Useless Duck Company is back with a new and improved version of its automatic Toilet Paper Machine that’s sure to save you a few precious seconds while in the bathroom, but the trade-off is there’s a very real chance you’ll lose a finger or hand with this…
Since March 2011, a 30-mile radius around the ruined Fukushima Daiichi reactor has been a designated exclusion zone, unsafe to travel. Over 100,000 evacuees left in a hurry and left behind a snapshot of what life looked like in the moments just before they fled. A brave soul recently snuck in to photograph the apocalyptic…
Here’s an E-2C Hawkeye trying to land on the USS Eisenhower. Everything seems normal until the arresting cable on the carrier—which is supposed to snare an aircraft as it lands—suddenly snaps. The airplane almost looks like a runaway car until it drops and disappears out of view, off the carrier. Luckily, the aircraft managed to…
Or I guess, since the glass skateboard hilariously shatters into pieces right in the beginning, skating on a glass skateboard starts exactly how you’d think it’d start, too. Watch as Braille Skateboarding gets a glass skateboard deck, installs the trucks, sets the wheels, and then takes the glass board for a spin… only to break…
It’s been a wild couple of days and we’re not going to talk about it at all here. This is a space for silent reflection—respite from one popular mobile game which will remain nameless, and the viral content encircling it like so much frothy scum on top of a simmering pot of chicken stock. Why…
Considering all the complicated weapons that Man at Arms has made in the past, I thought forging Aquaman’s Trident of Neptune would be relatively easy for them. But then I realized that Aquaman’s trident is actually more of a quincident since it has five points welded together and that making all those individual harpoon points…
Few movie scenes capture the horror of war like Saving Private Ryan. Seeing the storming of the beach in all its ugliness—the fear, the seasickness, the bullets, the desperation, the death—gives us a cold look at the reality of D-Day and how terrifying it must have been. But just how historically accurate is that scene?…
I didn’t think I was scared of heights until I watched Clem Newell base jump off the side of this impossibly steep mountain in Switzerland and then glide miles above a small town while wearing a wingsuit. But after watching him skim across these peaks with his artificial wings I’m hesitant to even climb a…
