Awesome Videos

(NSFW) When your childhood was the adventure of a lifetime, the rest of your life is bound to be a letdown. It’s a shame this fan made web series is too naughty for young Harry Potter fans.

YouTuber denha makes small marble machines with a dizzying variety of shapes and mechanisms. But that’s not all. Denha also made it so the components can be swapped with each other.

Justin is about to get a rude awakening in this “prank” video. No, it’s not just that he’s going to get startled out of his deep slumber, it’s far worse. You’ll just have to watch it to find out.

Shot on a budget of a few hundred bucks, Danny Shepherd and his friends shot this fan film which reminds us of Dick Grayson’s grown up alter ego, Nightwing. Though he still takes a punch like Robin.

Engineers from Japan’s Furukawakikou Corporation have devised SWITL, an unusual tool capable of sorcery picking up solid and gel compounds without disrupting their shape at all.

Mike Massé and his band are known for their neat covers of popular songs. Sadly, Mike’s baby Noah was just diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Donate and you get Mike’s cover of Let it Be.

A clever hack using a robotic wheeled bin, and a Kinect created the ultimate waste basket for slobs, automatically detecting the trajectory of flying rubbish and moving into place to catch it.

This little kitten finds itself in a precarious situation, but it’s been turned into a much more entertaining gymnastic exhibition, thanks to the Tom & Jerry soundtrack added by ignoramusky.

The boys of Japanese Jackass show Megwin TV uses a modified Nerf gun to play thumbtack Russian roulette. It’s not as dangerous as the real version, but the tension is still there.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a legendary launch complex, known for sending the Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin to space. Now it’ll also be known for its furry resident, a very curious ground squirrel.

Every frame in the video is a photograph, taken by the crew at the International Space Station and stitched together by Knate Myers. The song is Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor) by John Murphy.

A compilation of examples of great cinematography in movies, edited by Jason Bailey of Flavorwire. Some of the shots lose their value when out of their context, but overall it’s a great selection.

The first episode of a web series hosted by Jerry Seinfeld, guest starring Larry David. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is a talk show that combines cool cars and funnymen talking about nothing.

Two men try to rob a Central Florida Internet cafe, when a 71-year-old man turns the tables on the theives, wounding them and sending them high-tailing it out the door.

In 1997, unsatisfied with the aspiring (human) candidates, the small town of Talkeetna, Alaska voted Stubbs the cat as their mayor – a position he still holds today. More on Time.

Gather round, young blood, it’s time for a history lesson. Here’s a chronological presentation of some of the best and most popular PC games, courtesy of Reverse Enginears. List of games here.

Witness the life of Louis, from childhood to adulthood, through his own eyes. The moral of the story? Don’t spend your entire life in front of a mirror. Just kidding. Check out the making-of here.

Assembly produced this live performance which combines music, dance, computers and animation, controlled through a Microsoft Kinect. And yes, the audio is at least partially controlled by the dancer.

(NSFW: Language) Hannah Hart attempts to cook up a batch of O-rings, while at the getting herself even more deep-fried than the onions, and teaching us the basics of kitchen safety.

While we’ve seen as many as 24 people cram into a Mini, the never-ending stream of Russian troops coming out of the back of this truck remind us of some sort of alien spawn-point in a videogame.

According to The Onion, HP doesn’t just sell affordable computers (that are worth their weight in repair costs later on). Soon, the company will be offering that cloud thing everyone’s talking about.

A new web series by Geek & Sundry featuring stop motion short films based on kid’s stories. This is Scary Smash, as told by 5-year old Brett, starring geek superstars Joss Whedon and Felicia Day.

Another ad for the 2012 Paralympics, this time for UK’s Channel 4. With what these people have been through, being an athlete is the easy part. The song is Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy.