You really can’t trust your eyeballs. Watch as freerunners Jason Paul and Pasha Petkuns use illusions and perfect camera angles to screw with our perspectives as they slide down bananas, live in an upside down world, become giants and tiny humans, and do a lot more mind trippy stuff. It’s really fun.
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Video: The magical automatic breakfast machine
A 69-year-old retired airplane pilot named Peter Browne has created the most lovable mechanical contraption this side of Short Circuit. Built with pal Mervyn Huggett, who I have to imagine was birthed whole cloth for an abandoned J.K. Rowling novel, the machine prepares the three core parts of a morning meal: the protein (an egg),…
Video: 200W homemade laser bazooka
This YouTuber goes by the name of styropyro, and after scrolling through the videos on his channel, it won’t take you long to figure out why. This guy is absolutely obsessed with lasers, basing a vast majority of his inventions around them, including a laser tornado lamp, a drone with a laser and even a…
Can You Transform Rectangles Into Circles in the Mirror
What in the sorcerous hells is this? Kokichi Sugihara’s ‘Rectangles and Circles’ illusion is a mind-bending visual trip that turns squares into circles and circles into squares right in front of your face. Different shapes are placed at a mirror and what you see in front of you is totally different from what you see…
Man marries his iPhone after falling in love for years
Aaron Chervenak is one of the many grooms who has experienced a quickie wedding in Las Vegas. On May 20th, at the Little Las Vegas Chapel, Chervenak was married to the love of his life, his Apple iPhone. Chapel owner Michael Kelly said, “At first it was like what? And then I was like… Alright…
Obama remembers everyone died on ‘Game of Thrones’
A lot of characters have died on “Game of Thrones,” and it can be hard for any fan to remember all the lives lost in the show’s six seasons. Even President Obama, a well-known fan, struggled. In a video promoting voter registration, the president demonstrated how easy it is to register to vote by comparing it to…
The Spinning Illusion Is Some Sort of Light Magic
I don’t know how these tiny dancers got trapped inside this spinning zoetrope but it’s the only explanation I can come up with for this insane light animation. Their movements are so smooth, and the shining light captures the grace of their dance so well that I’m sure some sort of magic has to be…
The Most Expensive Carousel in the World In 360-Degree
Jane’s Carousel is one of the most iconic carousels in the world, but few people know it’s crazy backstory. Prior to arriving at its new home in a $9 million glass box facing the Manhattan skyline, the carousel sat in Isadora Park in Youngstown, Ohio, where it was constructed in 1922. So how the hell…
This LA Skyscraper Now Features A 300-Meter-High Glass Slide
Earlier this month, China unveiled the world’s highest, longest, and most terrifying glass bridge in the world. With the world’s mental masochists apparently not satisfied, a Los Angeles skyscraper has now opened a glass slide that juts out from the 70th floor. The US Bank Tower, one of Los Angeles’ tallest towers, now features a 13.7-meter-long (45-foot-long) slide made…
The world’s longest, fastest tunnel slide just opened — and it looks insane
A new slide in London takes amusement park rides to new heights. Wrapped around the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture and observation tower, “The Slide” is 580 feet long, which makes it the world’s tallest, longest, fastest tunnel slide, according to the Times London. The daredevil ride opened June 24 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. Check it out. The ArcelorMittal Orbit, which…
Why A Mechanical Calculator Tries To Commit “Suicide” When You Divide By Zero?
Short: What happens when you try to divide by zero on your computer or phone. It gave an error on my computer and showed infinity on my smartphone? But, what if you divide by zero on a mechanical computer? Well, the result is scary and you need to watch it yourself to believe it. do…
Here are the world’s top 10 Female Hackers
Meet the world’s Top 10 Female Hackers It is very surprising to know that a handful of women were bold enough to step into the world of hacking and make their presence felt – a field where the art of writing computer code and manipulating computer hardware is always considered to be traditionally dominated by…