Awesome Videos

Filled with lush visuals, this Creating a Living World video for Dragon Age: Origins explores the game’s universe–we were most surprised by the Dwarves, which are Aztec-inspired.

We Yanks are still smarting over Chicago’s loss, but this upbeat 2016 Olympics video for Rio De Janeiro softens the blow; we love the Windy City, but check out those Brazilian beaches!

It’s a bit out of our age range, but the Gyrowheel is a front-mounted 21st century training wheel for mini geeks; battery powered, it uses precession to stabilize the bicycle.

Instructables member vv_767’s Super Bright Lightsaber puts other Jedi weaponry to shame: it’s a DIY project that cost $160 and features a 36″ polycarbonate tube w/300 lumen LED.

It’ll change the face of the motion picture industry: CGI-Brows satirizes the heavy use of CG in movies, and comes complete with dramatic music, explosions and awesome eye brows.

The Good Men Project is an anthology of 31 essays about what it means to be a man today in America; nuanced yet covering a broad range, it’s available both in book and DVD form.

What do you do when you destroy your original car? You build a new one in less than 24 hours: this time-lapse shows the Patron Highcroft ALMS team building an Acura LMP1 racecar.

This debut trailer for The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom improves on the first with HD graphics, giant pies and hundreds of mustachioed paradoxes; it’ll be on XBLA Q1 2010.

Thanks to its recent tune-up, Hubble has unloaded a slew of new space pictures lately; Hubblecast shows how they use a freeware Photoshop plugin called FITS Liberator to process images.

This latest Arena Clip from Astro Boy isn’t quite as exciting as the Metro City clip, but it gives us a taste of robot-on-robot combat (Little Stinker FTW!); the movie hits theaters 10/23.

Yes, we have a man crush on Alton Brown; Good Eats: The Early Years packs 140 recipes and 1000+ pics from his Food Network TV show, known for its geeky approach to cooking.

Grand Theft Auto’s grip on reality is tenuous at best, but GTA Precinct shows just how much of a revolving door for crooks Liberty City PD has become; hell, they give you gold stars.

Action videos literally jump out with Tachyon’s XC 3D: shock and waterproof, it packs two cameras into one helmet mountable unit for 3D recording and includes 3D glasses and software.

Super Street Fighter IV won’t be out until Spring 2010, but here’s the launch trailer: it starts off artsy but thankfully unloads with plenty of gameplay and a new character named Juri.

David Buchwaldek’s man-powered Amphibian Velomobile looks semi-normal until it rolls into the lake: it’s a watergoing trike with hydraulic steering and electric assist. Thanks, Chris!

Debuting tonight (10/2) on SyFy, this second trailer for Stargate Universe might as well be the first: if grittiness and character development a-la BSG are your cup of tea, drink up.

Brutal Legend’s multiplayer mode makes its trailer debut, and it actually looks fun: think Battle of the Bands, albeit with real axes and team-based, RTS-style skirmishes.

LEGO Indiana Jones 2 gets more characters, vehicles and settings over the original, but here’s what really knocks our blocks off: for the first time, you’ll get to design your own levels.

Big Bird may not be lighting up, but this Sesame Street parody of Mad Men isn’t all that different from the real show: it’s filled with anger and sadness and teaches that S is for Sycophant.

The Comptometer is a functioning steampunk controller for mixing and editing video, but the best part is the sales rep’s presentation above: he doesn’t break character at any point.

Get behind the scenes of Halo 3: ODST’s epic live-action trailer with this Making Of featurette; factoid: the uniforms were made by Saving Private Ryan’s costume designer.

We’re used to crazy sports animations, but this Alaska Nanooks opening features the most awesome polar bear ever: it destroys a solar system, obliterates our moon and nukes Anchorage.

Hong Kong gets walloped by four successive rain walls between 7 am and 9 pm from June 2009’s Typhoon Nangka in this beautiful time-lapse video; it was shot on a Canon 50D.