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The Skittles Mini-Factory, A Cardboard Machine Capable of Sorting and Bagging Skittles by Color
The Skittles Mini-Factory is a project created by Cornell School of Electrical and Computer Engineering students Alice Kassar, Jesse Checkla, and Mikhail Rudinskiy that is…
‘Boys Latin’, A Trippy Computer-Animated Music Video That Follows a Young Woman’s Hike Across a Tide Pool
“Boys Latin” is a trippy computer-animated music video by founding Animal Collective member Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox and directed Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch. The…
Making a Smartphone Case Using a Deflated Balloon
curtisnstacey shows how to make a smartphone case using a deflated balloon.
An Automated Platform That Can Balance a Rolling Metal Ball Without It Falling Off
The Full Motion Dynamics mechanical engineering team at San Jose State University created an automated platform capable of adjusting to keep a moving ball bearing…
‘Final Cut 2014’, A Supercut Celebrating 330 Films Released in the Past Year
Film site JoBlo Movie is celebrating the cinematic year that was with a supercut of 330 films that were released in 2014, from Boyhood to…
An Elaborate Christmas Light Display Synced to the Music of ‘Star Wars’
A beautifully elaborate Christmas light display built by Tom BetGeorge syncs up roughly 100,000 lights to a collection of music from the Star Wars franchise. Besides…
A Memory Chip Coffee Table With an Illuminated Infinity Screen
reddit user DarrenDK created a wonderfully nerdy coffee table based on a UV erasable EPROM memory chip. In place of the chip’s quartz window, the…
Rescue Worker Hops Quickly Around on Quicksand to Make It Ripple and Bounce
Staff of the Bay Search & Rescue captured fascinating footage in 2009 of the surreal rippling effect of walking on quicksand at Morcambe Bay in…
‘Best of Web 7’, A Supercut of Some of the Biggest and Most Incredible Viral Videos of 2014
“Best of Web 7” is the latest in a series of supercuts by Luc Bergeron, who also goes by Zapatou, that combines some of the…
‘Margaret’, An Album and Book Inspired by the Abandoned Scrapbook of Poet Margaret Rucker
Margaret is a multimedia project based around the life and writings of an enigmatic poet–Margaret Rucker–who died decades before the project was ever conceived. Born…