Floating cardboard sculpture using tensegrity
YouTube channel Things Made out of Cardboard designed this simple cardboard sculpture based on tensional integrity (tensegrity for short) to create the impression that part of it is levitating. There's a bunk bed application here that somebody needs to get on right away. Does it seem safe? Of course not. But if millions of people have to be crushed when it inevitably fails, that's a risk I'm willing to take just so I can pretend I'm sleeping in a floating bed.
Guy plays railway station melodies on his calculators
Calculator musician @atarimae_400 noticed that Japanese railway stations sound similar to certain calculator tones and started playing some of the melodies on his own calculators. I received...
The rise and fall of Blockbuster Video stores from 1986 to 2019
V1 Analytics put together this visualization of Blockbuster Video store locations in the United States between 1986 and 2019. At its peak there were 9000 Blockbuster stores...
Oh Wow: This Beautifully Designed Origami Inspired Folding Chess Board And Piece Storage
This is a short video demonstration of the origami inspired folding chess board and piece storage unit created by mechanical engineer Brian Ignaut (who helped design unfolding...
Guy Builds Robotic Golf Club That's All Irons In One, Can Adjust Itself During Swing To Reach Desired Yardage
This is a video of a robotic golf club developed by Youtuber Stuff Made Here (previously: his never-miss basketball backboard) that with the twist of a dial...
A LEGO Robot That Continuously Builds Itself A Taller And Taller Tower To Climb
This is a video of several different LEGO climbing robots constructed by Japanese LEGO builder muniment Bekkan, who likes to "perform physics experiments using LEGO." First up...
Man Discovers IKEA Isn't Even Particleboard, It's Cardboard
This is a before and after shot of a piece of the IKEA desk that Twitter user James L. Sutter decided to cut in half instead of...