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Stinger Vintage Razor Comb

Stinger Vintage Razor Comb
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This might look like a vintage straight razor, but it’s a comb. Its curved handle is made from aluminum alloy with a black finish, and its stainless steel comb is easy to open and close thanks to a thumb flipper and scalloped back. It’s also got an emergency glass breaker in its tail, and its comb can be swapped with a utility blade for opening boxes.

The History of Zip Ties

The History of Zip Ties

There are a few items every maker, mechanic, and technician needs in their repair kit – duct tape, WD-40, a hot glue gun, and zip ties. If you’ve ever wondered where these sturdy plastic ties came from, New Mind is here with the history of this versatile item. While their primary use is bundling cables, they’re helpful for holding many other items together.

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Yashica Color Night Vision Scope

Yashica Color Night Vision Scope

Typical night vision scopes display monochrome images in shades of green. Yashica has developed a scope that can display and record full-color video in the darkness of night. It also has a 3-level infrared illuminator to produce high-contrast black-and-white footage with a viewing distance of up to 1970 feet and a sensitivity of 0.0037 lux.

Lighting Matches with a Bullet in Slow Motion

Lighting Matches with a Bullet in Slow Motion

Over a decade ago, Destin from Smarter Every Day and his pal John Henry tested the idea that you could light a match with a bullet. Now that he’s got a much better high-speed camera, he and John wanted to revisit the experiment. Once they dialed in the aim, they captured some incredible slow-motion macro footage at speeds up to 380,117 FPS.

Satisfying Carpet Cleaning

Satisfying Carpet Cleaning

There’s a whole YouTube sub-genre of carpet-cleaning videos. This one from Change Cleaning Services is quite satisfying. Like most of these videos, it starts with a rug so caked with mud that we assume they did it themselves. After saturating it with water and cleaning foam, then scrubbing it endlessly, two cartoon characters are revealed. Best watched at 2x speed.

Steamboat Willie in MS-DOS

Steamboat Willie in MS-DOS

Here’s a different take on Disney’s Steamboat Willie now that it’s in the public domain. d o g took Ub Iwerks’ 1928 classic cartoon and converted it into retro pixel art animation. You can play the video now, or, of you’re feeling more ambitions, load up the DOSbox emulator and load this XDV file into XDC Play.

Making a Long-Range Laser Blaster

Making a Long-Range Laser Blaster

Inspired by the Backyard Scientist’s industrial laser experiments, YouTuber Styropyro got a cheap but powerful industrial fiber laser of his own. He started by testing the 2-kilowatt laser’s cleaning and burning capabilities; then, he attached a beam-spreading lens to help light things on fire from a long distance.

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Gorillaz Without Instruments

Gorillaz Without Instruments

Shonkywonkydonkey has performed Weezer’s Undone and Radiohead’s OK Computer using his voice in place of all of the instruments. Now, he brings us some sunshine in a bag with his unique spin on Gorillaz’s self-titled 2001 album, including great tracks like Tomorrow Comes Today, Clint Eastwood, and 19/2000. 

Blowing Up an Inflatable Space Station

Blowing Up an Inflatable Space Station

Sierra Space is helping to develop the first commercial space station. As part of their testing program, they subjected their full-scale soft-sided LIFE habitat to excess pressure to measure how much would cause it to burst. The structure passed with flying colors, besting NASA’s x4 safety standards by 27%. The big boom happens around the 5:50 mark.

Loki TVA Time Cube vs. Human Avatar

Loki TVA Time Cube vs. Human Avatar

Season two of Loki featured one of the nastiest torture devices imaginable. The TVA’s Time Cube shrinks around its subjects until they relent – or die a horrific, squishy death. While Disney+ was relatively tame depicting the prison box’s wrath, Atomic Marvel scratches the itch for more, using a human avatar made up of thousands of tiny particles.

Microwaving CDs in Super Slow Motion

Microwaving CDs in Super Slow Motion

We don’t recommend trying this at home, but if you pop a compact disc into a microwave oven and turn it on, it’ll put on a brief but spectacular light show. The Slow Mo Guys rigged up a macro probe lens and their high-speed cameras to capture the miniature electrical storm in amazing detail. Then they scrambled some eggs.

Everyday Carry’s Top Picks: January 2024

Everyday Carry’s Top Picks: January 2024

We love finding new gear for our daily adventures. Everyday Carry shared their latest picks, including some great new items, including a collection of backpacks from Pioneer, rugged hiking boots from Huckberry and shoemaker Diemme, a fixed blade knife from CIVIVI, a big MOLLE pouch from CountyComm, and a modern two-room tent from Snow Peak.

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Constellation (Trailer)

Constellation (Trailer)

With shows like For All Mankind and Silo, Apple TV+ has proven it can produce great science fiction. Their upcoming series Constellation stars Noomi Rapace as an astronaut who finds her life on Earth has changed in unexpected ways after returning from a disaster in space. Co-star Jonathan Banks helps to piece together the mystery. Premieres 2.21.24.

Red Hot Copper Ball vs. Popcorn

Red Hot Copper Ball vs. Popcorn

We’ve seen what happens when introducing a red-hot metal sphere to a jawbreaker. So what do you think will happen if you place a molten copper ball into a glass filled with popcorn kernels? Snap Object has the answer. After a slow start, things really get going once a little oil is added to the mix. We’re impressed that the glass didn’t crack.

Dreaming Child

Dreaming Child

Animator Lee Hardcastle is known for his gory and twisted claymation shorts, including Rick and Morty’s Non Canonical Adventures. In Dreaming Child, we’re transported into the mind of a young boy whose dream starts out joyful but quickly turns into a surreal nightmare.

It’s a Sin: Metal Edition

It’s a Sin: Metal Edition

If you’re unfamiliar with the Pet Shop Boys track It’s a Sin, go give it a listen and come back. We’ll be here waiting. Wasn’t that good? Now crank the volume up to max and hit play on Leo Moracchioli’s awesomely hard-edged cover of the 1987 synth-pop classic.

Exploding a Laserdisc in Slow Motion

Exploding a Laserdisc in Slow Motion

If you spin a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc fast enough, it will eventually shatter and send shrapnel flying. Laserdiscs were made similarly, only bigger, so they also catastrophically fail at high speeds. The Slow Mo Guys pointed their high-speed camera at the carnage to give us a detailed look at how the discs come apart.

How to Stop a LEGO Train

How to Stop a LEGO Train

Gnuk Animations has an obsession with LEGO trains, and likes to see what it will take to stop one from rolling down the tracks. On their TikTok channel, you’ll find videos of a LEGO train taking on spaghetti, Q-tips, Pokémon cards, paper straws, tin foil, and more.

Airplane Limousine

Airplane Limousine

Airplanes are usually meant to fly. This one never leaves the ground again because it’s been converted into a limousine. Martín Vaca and VA-K Innovation took the decommissioned Boeing 727 and mounted it atop a bus chassis. The wings had to be removed, and the fuselage reduced in size to make it street-legal. Here’s what it looks like inside.

Sorting Out the Scale of the Universe

Sorting Out the Scale of the Universe

The universe is made up of countless galaxies, planets, stars, and moons. But do you know how those all relate to each other in terms of size? In this man-on-the-street video from Veritasium, he asked people to sort them in order of size. Not everyone got it right, but instead of making fun of their misunderstandings, Derek helps educate his audience.

Retro Tech: Tomy Omnibot 2000

Retro Tech: Tomy Omnibot 2000

Science fiction has always promised us robots to do our bidding around the house. And we want more than just robot vacuum cleaners. In the 1980s, toymaker Tomy tried making a home robot with the Omnibot 2000. LGR looks at this retro automaton, which can speak, play music, and serve drinks.

Portable Ladder Bridge

Portable Ladder Bridge

Say you need to cross a river where there is no bridge. The EasiBridge can span up to 18 meters (59 feet) and be deployed by a single person. Once it’s opened and its supports flipped over, it can carry people on a rolling belly slide. Since the prototype shown in this video, the company continued development and testing and was acquired by BANAIR.

Overinflating Tires Until They Explode

Overinflating Tires Until They Explode

After smashing stuff with their shop’s new 300-ton hydraulic press, the Beyond the Press channel got to work on a different kind of destruction. For maximum explosive carnage, they took car and truck tires and filled them way past their safe limits with a 4350 psi (300 bar) air compressor. Don’t try anything like this at home – it’s incredibly dangerous.

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