Awesome Videos

For some reason, we assumed that those giant bells found in clock towers and churches were all made years ago. But this factory in Austria still makes them. TEKNIQ takes us inside the Grassmayr Foundry to see how they produce some of their big bells. The foundry has been making bells since 1599, including the world’s largest ringing church bell.

When we think of remote-controlled aircraft, we envision small models that measure two or three feet across. Tail Heavy Productions compiled this video showing 16 of the world’s largest R/C planes, some of which are longer than a single-engine Cessna and some that weigh hundreds of pounds.

One of the challenges of VR gaming is the lack of freedom to walk around without running into walls. Freeaim hopes to change that with these motorized shoes, which let you walk in a small area while providing the sensation of covering large distances. They offer three movement modes and are sort of like a wearable version of Disney’s Holotile floor.

Travis Pastrana’s Nitrocross series is packed with exciting dirt racing in a variety of vehicle classes. This FPV drone footage from the April 2024 races at Firebird Motorsports Park in Phoenix, AZ, gives us a thrilling bird’s eye view of the action as VW Beetles, side-by-sides, NEXT class, and Group E rallycross cars zoom around the track and catch air.

Pac-Man has always been one of the most enigmatic video game characters. Somehow, this yellow puck moves around a maze without any feet and manages to gobble down ghosts, cherries, and pretzels without any teeth. Adam from North of the Border fixed both of these shortcomings, and all we ended up with was nightmare fuel.

Plants need to spread their seeds to procreate. While some rely on birds or the wind, others use explosive force to send seeds flying. Ze Frank explores a variety of plants that blow their tops and shoot their pollen, spores, and seeds. It’s fascinating to see how they store the mechanical energy needed to explode.

The Weeknd’s 2019 Blinding Lights is a modern synthwave masterpiece. Jeremy from Skatune Network put his ska revival spin on the hit track, replacing the lead synth parts with brass and amping up the energy to 1000. It’ll have you skanking and shuffling within 10 seconds of hitting the play button.

Carbon fiber is an amazing material – it weighs virtually nothing, yet it can be incredibly strong when woven or forged properly. TIME bicycles shared this cinematic factory video showing how dry carbon fibers are braided, shaped, and then molded in resin to create lightweight bike frames. A tremendous amount of labor goes into making each bicycle.

We’ve been writing about Boston Dynamics’ robotics for more than a decade. The company was founded by Marc Raibert in 1992, and his early work at MIT’s Leg Lab laid the groundwork for the company’s ATLAS humanoid robot. World Data Center put together this great compilation of footage from 1983 to 2023 – though it doesn’t include the 2024 ATLAS robot.

Trust Me Bro takes a simplified and lighthearted look at what it was like to be rich throughout history, from simply staying alive to the obscene multi-generational world-bending stacks that the privileged few have today. While it’s easy to be snarky and say at least cavemen owned their caves, we’d still rather be poor today than at any other point in the past.

After taking us behind the scenes at a Japanese game center, filmmaker Paolo from Tokyo spent a day with Eri, a do-it-all team member at a popular noodle shop in Tokyo’s high-end Ginza district. The relationship and attitude that Eri and her bosses have are just as awesome as the display of talent, energy, and consistency needed to run a restaurant.

xkcd’s What If? answers another wild hypothetical question – basically, what might happen if you put a portal at the bottom of the deepest point in the ocean and let the water run down the drain? Because of the physics at play, it might take a long time before anyone noticed, but eventually you could ride your bike from the U.S. to New Zealand.

Freelance 3D artist XieBoLi spent a year and a half creating this 3D animated montage of some of the climactic and intense scenes from Attack on Titan. They made everything from scratch, from the character models to the environment. It may be achingly short, but they did a great job at transferring the anime and manga into 3D.

Here’s something special for fans of the Netflix baking show Is It Cake?. Rathergood takes the notion that anything on the set could be cake to the next level in this hilarious twisted monologue. From the same warped mind who gave us this classic Quizno’s commercial.

Why lock your toolbox with a padlock when you can secure it with Thor’s mighty hammer? Maker B machined and engraved a mini Mjölnir from a block of metal. Hidden inside its head is a latch mechanism that automatically clips around a lock hasp. A twist of the handle unlocks it. We’re impressed with the attention to detail in things like the hidden screws.

CLMC Music presents a fantastic compilation of his movie and TV show theme song mashups performed on a pair of KORG synths. The collection includes Ghostbusters x Knight Rider, Indiana Jones x The A-Team, The Mandalorian x Transformers, and many more. Whether you’re a fan of The Avengers, James Bond, or Harry Potter, you won’t be disappointed.