If you’ve ever been a goalie in hockey, you know that hockey pucks are not soft little discs. In fact, they’re very hard and they really hurt when they’re flying at you at over 100 miles per hour. So I was pretty surprised to see a hockey puck get crushed like a grape in a wild …
The Internet is wonderful because everyone who has a strange hobby can film it and become an instant celebrity on YouTube. YouTube user Tito4re, for example, seems to really enjoy taking food and drenching it in molten copper. We recently highlighted his video showing what happens when you pour molten copper onto a jawbreaker and now …
Lou Reed had Metal Machine Music. Musician and inventor Martin Molin has Marble Machine Music. Molin, who is a member of Swedish musical act Wintergatan, has designed a gigantic machine that is an enormously complex music box that circulates around 2,000 marbles through a series of chutes and directs them to fall on particular vibraphone bars, bass guitar strings and …
We’ve seen not just one but two different videos recently that show off Google’s spectacular robots. The company has gone a long way in improving the design and technology it purchased from Boston Dynamics. But what if the robots decide to fight back, making our worst nightmares a reality?
Eating a jawbreaker is a rite de passage for any kid growing up. Having the patience to keep a giant ball of sugar in your mouth until it’s small enough to bite into is something that everyone should try at least once before becoming an adult. That said, a new video has made me rethink the …
The massive forest fires that engulfed parts of California last summer were terrifying sights that nonetheless also make for captivating timelapse videos. Filmmaker Jeff Frost went inside this horrible fire to film some incredible footage that he’s now used to make a stunning timelapse video that is equal parts beautiful and scary.
There are a lot of products out there that are flat-out ripoffs but YouTube teardown artiste Markus Fuller recently found a real doozy when he spent £500 (~$USD 700) on a rechargeable battery pack that was in reality approximately $30 worth of batteries stuffed into a big case. His teardown video of the battery and his …
We can’t get enough of scary landings caught on camera here at BGR and this morning we found one of a helicopter that made an emergency crash landing into the ocean at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Posted by YouTube user Shawn Winrich, the video shows a tourist helicopter stalling midair and then crashing down near …
The Internet is chock full of videos featuring people doing incredibly stupid things and paying a hilariously painful price for their actions. But don’t you wish there was a one-stop location you could go to see all of the Internet’s stupidest people all in one place? Well wish no more because you’re going to want to follow …
One day in the not-too-distant future we might be able to park our cars with a flick of the wrist or a touch of a button. But while you wait for self-driving cars, you should know Nissan has created an Intelligent Parking Chair concept that parks itself at your desk upon hearing your hands clap. You heard …
