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Hand Tool Rescue came across Michael Volpe’s 1919 patent for an insane multi-wrench. The concept for the hand tool was that it could turn just about every imaginable fastener. He decided to make a replica of the impractical wrench in hopes that one day he might find every kind of fastener it can tighten.

We love watching videos of factories making things we take for granted. Process X takes us inside the Nitinen factory in Japan that makes 17 million cans of butane fuel each year. The assembly line ballet starts with printed metal blanks which they bend and assemble into cans, then attach lids, valves, and eventually fill with gas.

Valve’s classic 3D puzzle game Portal has been upgraded to run on Nvidia’s RTX GPUs. The new version has dramatically better ray-traced graphics with new textures, volumetric lighting, fog, smoke, and shadows. Best of all, it’s a free download for all players with Portal in their Steam game library.

Virginia-based Teale Designs makes this unique driver set which houses up to six bits in its cutout slots. Its brass-covered stainless steel body has two magnetic driver positions – one at its tip and another on its side. It has a key ring/lanyard hole and comes with six USA-made bits and a mini S-biner clip.

San Francisco Internation Aiport’s runways 28L and 28R run in parallel, just 750 feet apart. As a result, jumbo jets often land next to each other. NickFlightX captured footage of a number of flights landing in this formation. They’re not always in sync, but some of them come in perfectly side-by-side.

“I want to slop my own food onto my plate and bring it to my table myself!” Comedian Ryan George imagines the conversation that took place leading to the creation the very first buffet. After watching this, we’re reminded why eating food that’s been warming over a can of Sterno all day is a terrible idea.

It makes perfect sense that you can mill round objects by turning them on a spindle. But this video from the Titans of CNC shows us how it’s possible to use computer-controlled machines to mill sharply-defined polygonal objects on a spinning machine by synchronizing the spindle and the milling tool.

From liftoff to splashdown, NASA’s Artemis I mission took 25.5 days. This video from the European Space Agency condenses the picture-perfect journey of the Space Launch System and Orion moonship down to just 60 seconds through the magic of editing and time-lapse footage.

The guys from Garage 54 have done all kinds of stupid things to Lada cars. For this experiment, they wanted to see if they could turn one of the old Russian jalopies into an improvised helicopter by connecting its drivetrain to a propeller on its roof. Place your bets now on whether this thing will ever get off the ground.

(PG-13: Language/Gore) While running away from a battle, a soldier comes across a smart-mouthed rock that offers him a chance at immortality. But this darkly-humorous fantasy short film from writer/director Eron Sheean proves there’s a price to pay for everything.

If you’ve ever had a CT (or “CAT”) scan of your body, you know that it makes quite the whirring sound as you slide into its donut-shaped opening. This video captured by a radiographer in Denmark shows just how quickly the machine’s guts spin around as its X-ray beams capture numerous images of your insides.

Traditional ropes are made by winding hemp or other strong plant fibers. NightHawkInLight got his hands on an industrial machine he found on AliExpress that can take fibers like tall grass and braids them together to create rope. It required a bit of fine-tuning to make it work properly, but it did its job in the end.

The Brick Technology channel is always making interesting machines from LEGO Technic parts. In this video, they show off more than two dozen satisfying LEGO mechanisms and then let them self-destruct by overpowering each one. The demolition starts at the 6:23 mark, followed by slow-motion footage.

Most of us are familiar with pentagons, hexagons, and octagons, but did you know there’s a name for a 1000-sided shape? Thanks to its numerous vertices, the chiliagon looks like a circle to the naked eye and only reveals its true nature when viewed close up. Micheal from Vsauce offers a quick take on this unusual shape.

Toilets are designed to take some pretty explosive payloads. But we can say with certainty that they weren’t thinking about what YouTuber HaerteTest came up with. He filled the porcelain bowl with thousands of individual sparklers, then set it ablaze. This is even worse than the last time we ate Taco Bell.

A Brazilian soccer fan turned up at World Cup 2022 wearing one of the coolest costumes we’ve ever seen. The entire outfit is covered with colorful mirrored tiles cut into triangles, making him look like a shiny, low-poly, cel-shaded version of himself. He looks like a real-time CGI effect. Turns out he has a friend.

Thyrm’s PyroVault 2.0 provides a durable waterproof housing for your lighter, keeping it safe from the elements. It has a dual-wall construction with a full gasket seal and an easy-open, spring-loaded lid. It also comes with a Tinder-Quik firestarter that hides beneath the lighter. Compatible with a variety of Zippo inserts.

During a recent performance on Live @ SiriusXM, Tenacious D turned in a great mix of originals and covers, including this killer performance of the Chris Isaak tune Wicked Game – and yes, Jack Black even hit that high note. They also did a fun-loving medley of Beatles songs.

Ants are fascinating creatures. While some may battle other colonies for supremacy, there are kinds of ants that enslave others. Kurzgesagt explains how Polyergus ants raid colonies and force their offspring to do their bidding until they die. They’ve become so reliant on their slaves that they can no longer care for themselves.

Vintage pictures of boxers often show fighters standing in this silly “fisticuffs” stance. But that position served a purpose, as Primo – Boxing explains in this short video. Basically, the lower arm protected the torso since gloveless fighters took way more body blows and aimed for the head less frequently to prevent broken hands.

Having lived in Orlando, we can confirm that Florida is, um… different. Wendover Productions looks at the history of the Sunshine State and how it got to be unlike any other place, with its manufactured communities, theme parks, and its population of runaways from other states, stoked by its beaches and low taxes.

Add Amazon Alexa capabilities to more spots in your house with this bargain price on a refurbished Amazon Echo Dot. This compact speaker can play music and offers voice assistant features for smart home, news, weather, and more. It also has a 3.5 mm audio output for connecting a larger external speaker.

After explaining how cheap laser pointers can be dangerous, mad scientist styropyro said to hell with safety and built himself a super-sized green laser pointer that emits a beam that’s so intense you need welder’s goggles to be in the same room with it. At the core of the instrument is an insanely bright and hard-to-acquire laser diode.