Awesome Videos

Take an insanely fast ride around the ring in the new Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV, which turned in a near record 6:59.73 lap around the Nordschleife, courtesy of the Superveloce’s 6.5L, 740hp V12, and its sticky Pirelli P-Zero Corsas.

OSVehicles is working on Tabby EVO, an open source electric vehicle. It has a 15kW drivetrain, a range of 87mi and a top speed of 80mph. You can procure prototypes and download its design files here. More on Make:.

A pair of crows pluck fur off of an indifferent giant panda at the Ueno Zoo in Japan. Are they building a nest? Are they fur traders? Stylists? Tailors of the Night’s Watch? Maybe they just want to see what a bald giant panda looks like.

YouTuber Ben Morfitts aka SquidPhysics made an original composition and then filmed himself playing each of the instruments. He then combined the videos to make it look like he’s conducting an orchestra consisting of his clones.

CD Projekt Red celebrates The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt‘s universally favorable reviews by releasing this intense computer animated short film, which shows the titular monster hunter Geralt of Rivia taking on an elusive creature.

Bartender Adam Delaney presents a century of cocktails by preparing 10 mixed drinks, each representing a different decade from 1915 all the way up to the present. Take note of the music and Adam’s attire.

Destiny clan Husky Raid made good use of the game’s dance emotes by staging a choreographed group performance, complete with light and sound effects from their weapons and abilities. Skip to 1:56.

The Tentetsutou (Sword of Heaven) is a katana forged by Yoshindo Yoshiwara from a fragment of Gibeon, an iron alloy meteorite that was found in Namibia in 1838. It’s currently on display at the Skytree tower in Tokyo, Japan.

This boy might as well be a 30th century archeologist. Watch as he inspects a rudimentary long distance communicator, marveling at how his ancestors were able to interface at rest, and without a touchscreen. Or Snapchat.

Iaido master Isao Machii shows off his sword skills and lightning fast reflexes by slicing various objects lobbed at him at high speed in this commercial for telecom company SoftBank. Flying shrimp is Japanese for fast Internet.

LifeHackChan shows off a neat party trick you can do with a paraffin wax candle. Apparently, a small amount of the wax that burns off in its smoke is still flammable, so you can relight the candle without aiming for the wick.

It’s challenging enough to keep a regular hula hoop spinning, but Dizzy Hips proves that with enough upper body strength (and time on your hands) you can do anything you set your mind to. And in case you thought it was a fluke, it wasn’t.

Meet Faa Mai, a young Asian elephant who lives with his herd at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Watch him play with a long plastic strap like a happy puppy. A 1-ton puppy.

(Gore) The music video for Darlin’ Celsa by synth pop band Maestro is about Tim and Celsa. She was the only girl in their university, and he did whatever it took to have her. What else can you expect from a school named Mount Madness?

Our pals at Pleated Jeans do their best to understand the lyrics of various tunes from Disney flicks, failing miserably – and hilariously – along the way. Just never let these guys near the closed captioning machine.

Check out this cool kitty who just likes hanging out in his makeshift lounge chair. Though we’re not sure he’d be as relaxed as this dog if we added water (or catnip) to the equation.

We’ve been mesmerized by hydrographic printing, but one limitation of the technique is that it’s impossible to align precise designs. Now, students from Columbia University have developed a method that solves this problem.

Learn from experienced celebrities. Right now you can learn acting from Dustin Hoffman, tennis from Serena Williams and writing from James Patterson. Each course gets you lifetime access to videos and interactive tools and exercises.

A young, engaged couple subjected themselves to hours of makeup and prosthetics work for an emotional glance at what they might look like as they grow old. It’ll be interesting to look back and see how accurate the makeup artists were.

Snoop Dogg stopped by The Tonight Show this week, and participated in Jimmy’s stoner-friendly Real People, Fake Arms bit, working at Drizzles, a bake shop with some uhm, questionable treats and cooking techniques.

Blues legend Riley “B.B.” King passed away in his sleep on 5/14/15. He was 89 years old. B.B. pioneered techniques and styles that have become blues standards, shared the genre to a wider audience and kept performing until 2013.

As devoted Pixar fans know, the studio’s characters frequently make cameos in other Pixar movies. Disney shows us some of the guest appearances that might be too quick for us to notice. And no, you’re not the only one.

A moving profile of Conrad Milster, chief engineer at Pratt Institute. Now in his sunset years, the lifelong New Yorker, cat lover and tinkerer talks about his career, his pets, his love-hate relationship with the city and his late wife.