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A LEGO Walking Machine Scaled Up to SUV Size
16-year-old maker Ben Vagle has built an SUV-size version of his LEGO walking machine TrotBot. TrotBot scales obstacles as well as smooth terrain with its…
New Jersey Man Replaces the Lyrics of Popular Songs With the Words From Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’
YouTuber Jon Sudano, a New Jersey man who only films himself from the neck up, has created an entire video series in which he hilariously…
A Beautiful Deck of Neil Patrick Harris Playing Cards
A photo posted by theory11 (@theory11) on Nov 22, 2016 at 8:01am PST Neil Patrick Harris teamed up with the magical artists at theory11 to…
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…