Awesome Videos

“Hydrogen? Are you telling me this sucker’s nuclear?” Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox hang out with scientist Mischa Pollack to find out about a real life Mr. Fusion – the Toyota Mirai’s hydrogen fuel cell. We still prefer the looks of Marty’s Tacoma though.

Man at Arms: Reforged‘s Baltimore Knife and Sword went to great lengths to make a working and lethal replica of the cane sword from Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. You can win that exact same replica by joining Break’s sweepstakes.

With Back to the Future Day upon us, and Halloween just around the corner, we can think of no better costume than Marty McFly on a Hoverboard, which makes it look like its wearer is hovering off the ground, without magnets or electricity – just a good old optical illusion.

The guys from Jet Granny Cars have a made a very special mobility scooter. Watch as it powers down the Santa Pod raceway, then demonstrates why strapping four rocket engines to your butt isn’t exactly the smartest idea. The wet tarmac didn’t help matters.

Looking for a fun way to scare the neighborhood kids this Halloween? Got a drone lying around? Then you’ll definitely want to check out this amusing flying ghost gimmick. As one YouTube commenter pointed out, it would look even better flying at night with backlights.

Make’s Darbin Orvar shows how to craft a baseball bat from three pieces of walnut and rough-sawn maple wood that she cuts, trims, smooths, laminates, then hand-tools and finishes on her lathe. It’s a tremendous amount of work, but an impressive result.

PlayStation forces a pair of nostalgia goggles on you in this sappy but cool commercial for the upcoming fps Star Wars: Battlefront and the limited edition Star Wars PlayStation 4 bundles. We like the “Not actual gameplay” disclaimer.

(PG-13: Language) In Mike Judge’s 2006 movie, everyone had a low IQ. But as Cracked points out, at least they knew they were idiots. Best of all, they were nice people. Unlike today where we have idiots who don’t want to be educated, hateful idiots, and idiots with power.

Pro rally driver Ryan Millen proves that the Toyota RAV4 is way more capable than its grocery getter image. We watched him drive his largely stock RAV4 to 1st place in his class and 3rd place overall in the 2015 Mt. Hood Rally. Read more about our adventure on 95octane.

(Gross) The Nábrók, aka Necropants, is from a 17th century Icelandic witchcraft ritual. Put simply, it involves cutting off a dead man’s skin from the waist down and wearing it, then using the rotting scrotum as a magical wallet that never runs out of coins. People are weird.

The criminally underrated Vulture Remix used clips from the 1948 serial Superman and the hilariously awful 1949 serial Batman and Robin to create an early 20th century version of Zack Snyder’s upcoming film.

At the 2010 Baie Des Chaleurs rally, Subaru’s Pat “Rocket” Richard and co-driver Alan Ockwell saw their sizable lead vanish when they rolled and heavily damaged their car, but they calmly soldiered on. We bet Vivek would have had a nervous breakdown if he was there.

He’s no Charlie Chaplin or Jim Carrey, but George Clooney sure knows how to put his unfairly handsome mug to good use. Burger Fiction’s supercut is a nice look at both Clooney’s face and his body of work.

See that dog there behind the drums? He’s very musical. In fact, he’s able to howl the perfect note with the perfect amount of tremolo to accompany a saxophone playing a blues tune. We’d like to see him trained to howl the entire scale. (Thanks Mike!)

People are Awesome compiled this series of people making short work of their jobs, as they flip pancakes, wash windows, and make pizzas at lightning speeds. Though we think sometimes it’s all about the flourish rather than the end result.

After a tragic accident, Jason Barnes had his hand and wrist amputated. As if that weren’t challenging enough, Jason plays the drums. But thanks to Gil Weinberg, and the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, he can play entirely new styles with his new robotic hand.

Pop hitmaker Mark Ronson (of Uptown Funk fame) teamed up with Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow) on vocals, Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) and Kirin J Callinan to orchestrate this absolutely killer cover version of the Queens of the Stone Age track I Sat by the Ocean.

By combining clips of R2-D2 jacking into various computers with Yello’s classic Oh Yeah, editor WhoIsPablo made it look like R2 was having more fun than we thought, sticking his universal computer interface into any port in town. Ch… Chika Chika indeed.

Reigning MVP Steph Curry continues to be the NBA’s mad trickster, responding to dire situations with absurd moves. In this play from a pre-season game against the Lakers, he slips and falls down but still ends up humiliating his guard.

(PG-13: Language) Last Week Tonight indulges in the dying tradition of gossiping about one’s neighbor. On the eve of the Canadian federal election, LWT takes a look at the candidates for prime minister and urges Canadians to stop supporting the incumbent Stephen Harper.

A handful of YouTubers make a lot of money by making prank videos. But Cracked reminds us that many of these so-called practical jokes are actually forms of violence, bullying, harrassment or sometimes just lying, but with a disclaimer and a camera.

Despite its mass media acceptance, Adam Ruins Everything would like to remind us that the polygraph test is more of a placebo than an accurate device. Even its inventor thought so, and you certainly don’t need a clean conscience to screw with its results.

Performance artist Cinder Petrichor demonstrates a truly unique puppet she designed and built to look like the mythical fiery bird rising from the ashes. The moving puppet doesn’t self destruct thanks to its wire and Kevlar construction.