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Nate from the Internet originally titled his video “Opening Cans as Fast as Possible!,” but that’s another way of saying “Shooting at Cans.” Still, it’s always fun to watch things explode in slow motion, and that’s what you’ll get here, as Nate and his pals take aim at pressurized cans of spray paint, expanding foam,
Inspired by a quirky 1990s Mazda concept vehicle, the guys from Bucket decided to make their own suitcase car. The original was designed for zooming between airport gates. Like Mazda’s version, it folds up into a hard-shell Samsonite suitcase and runs on a noisy gas engine. It has a custom-welded frame and a front wheel
When you look at the reflections on office building windows, they often look wavy and distorted. But why is it that they don’t look this way from the inside? Henry Reich from minutephysics explores how reflected and refracted light behave differently, resulting in very different experiences depending on which side of the window you’re standing
After his 2010 appearance at NPR’s Tiny Desk, “Weird Al” Yankovic is back. Still going strong decades after musicians he’s parodied, Al and company performed his Weezer-esque “Skipper Dan,” his “eBay” take on Backstreet Boys, the Weird: The Al Yankovic Story hilarious closing credits song “Now You Know,” and the “American Pie” parody “The Saga
Lasernut is an industrial laser cutting and welding shop in California. In this video, we get a brief glimpse at an amazing flying dragon swing created in the workshop by Matt Taylor from American Standard Design. Matt mostly builds desert race cars, but his swing is a masterpiece that deserves some serious applause for its
Epic Spaceman shows what it might be like to travel to Challenger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench by riding on the Titanic’s anchor. The real-time journey illustrates how far it is to the deepest known point on Earth, while learning about the fascinating marine life that dwells in deep water. We love
A normal kitchen blender is powered by an electric motor. Mister Patina thought it would be much cooler to fix his blended drinks using a gas engine. He started by building Toyan’s V8 engine kit, then engineered a drivetrain to spin the blender’s blade. The 4 hp engine works just like the real deal, and
A trebuchet launches projectiles using a counterweight and swinging arm, but its speed is limited by the distance its weight travels. Tom Stanton engineered a compact trebuchet with a carbon fiber arm and a tapered drum to store energy and release it when its weight drops. It builds up so much speed that its projectiles
In the mid-1970s, daredevil Ken Carter planned to jump a rocket car a mile across a river. But after years of false starts, things didn’t exactly go to plan when the rocket car eventually headed up the ramp. The Stunt Driver offers a lighthearted retelling of the story, starring Jay Baruchel as Carter, a man
Hailing from Chicago, JJQ is a young man with an impressive talent. At age 12, he’s the youngest member of the Q Brothers. He recently hit the stage at Lollapalooza, where he was given a series of keywords to incorporate into a freestyle rap. We doubt he’s familiar with Finnegans Wake, but he still blew
Apparently, putting a potato under extreme pressure and steam, then rapidly releasing the pressure, makes its skin instantly come off. Shane from Stuff Made Here wanted to see it firsthand, so he engineered a high-pressure vessel to replicate the result. This explosive decompression also works on apples and other produce. Danger: don’t try this at
Filmmaker Louis Skupien took an incredible F-16 Viper fighter jet flight with Air Force pilot “Hash”, hitting speeds over 1300 MPH over the Mojave. This surprisingly chill cockpit footage comes from a Full Throttle episode about Edwards Air Force Base, the 416th Flight Test Squadron, and the F-16 – well worth a watch for anyone