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A Fascinating Video of a Fully Automatic Machine Quickly Twisting Wire Into Chain Link Fencing
A fully automatic machine quickly twists wire into chain link fencing in a fascinating video by Polish fencing company Diilmet. via The Awesomer
A Man Reenacts Jerry Lewis’ Hilarious Invisible Typewriter Scene From ‘Who’s Minding the Store?’
MFICPrometheus shared footage back in 2009 of a man, who was traveling with a bunch of his drinking buddies, brilliantly reenacting the great Jerry Lewis‘…
A Lesson on How to Solve the Airplane Riddle, A Complicated Problem About Fuel and Time
A TED-Ed lesson by Judd A. Schorr explains how to solve the airplane riddle, a complicated problem about fuel and time. Three planes with enough…
A Coordinated Cat Climbs To the Top of an Indoor Climbing Wall at a Japanese Bouldering Gym
A very coordinated tortoiseshell cat named Lalah logically negotiated the plastic finger holds along an indoor climbing wall at the Boulbaka2 Bouldering Gym in near…
Retro DIY 3D Printed Mini Replica of a Commodore PET Computer With LED Matrix
Adafruit Industries demonstrates how to make a retro DIY 3D printed replica of a Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) computer with LED matrix from the…
An Uncooperative Mole Cricket in South Texas Refuses to Burrow for Coyote Peterson
While on location in South Texas, the very curious Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness found that he was intrigued by the repetitive stridulating sound that…
A Test to See If a Hot Wire Can Cut Through a Large Block of Dry Ice
Grant Thompson “The King of Random” tested his hot wire “Styro-Slicer” to see if it can cut through a large block of dry ice. The…
Optical Illusions That Make Plainly Visible Objects Disappear and the Science of How They Work
AsapSCIENCE demonstrates some optical illusions that make plainly visible objects disappear while explaining the science behind how they work. They also created a playlist that…
Red D20 Dice String Lights
ThinkGeek has created a 9 foot long set of 10 red D20 String Lights that will illuminate any party or Dungeons & Dragons session.
UCSC’s Trainwreck Games Wins $10,000 Prize for Creating the Best Social Video Game at E3
AARP and Entertainment Software Association (ESA) hosted the first ever Social Connection GameJam at E3 in Los Angeles earlier this year. 28 teams of college…