Awesome Videos

After frying shrimp at lightning speed, NTT DoCoMo once again resorts to a food-based analogy to promote its 4G network. This time they made ground beef dumpling in under three seconds. The music is the secret ingredient here.

Armatus Designs isn’t just making any old cosplay Batsuit. His version can actually take a punch. In fact, it can take lots of punches. His padded and armored suit is also lined with Kevlar. Though it won’t help in all situations.

YouTuber Stu in Tokyo sums up his busy season – and the lives of the typical salaryman in Japan – in this funny but ultimately worrying montage of his workweek. This is not how you increase birth rates folks.

Saturday Night Live and guest host Dakota Johnson stirred up a hornet’s nest with this skit. It lampoons a Toyota ad involving a dad saying goodbye to his kid, who’s about to join the armed forces. Of course, that’s not what happens here.

YouTuber Daniel Willey says his sister and her husband remodeled their bathroom, which included replacing a ceiling fan with a lamp. Now they have some unintentional home automation synergy going on.

Microsoft boldly predicts enterprise technology 5 to 10 years from now. Aside from wall-sized and borderless touchscreens, the company imagines we’ll have more mature augmented reality and wearable devices.

A car thief outside a pub in Ireland was attempting to smash the window of his next target, but the car window had other ideas and decided to fight back. Watching dumb criminals get instant justice never gets old.

In this clip, surfer Laird Hamilton demonstrates his foilboard, a hydrofoil-equipped surfboard which allows him to surf above the waves rather than in them. It might be as close as you can get to riding a hoverboard.

(NSFW: Language) “So young and yet so disgusting!”  The Onion talks to Tyler Morgan, who got accepted into Ohio State University even though he’s only 13 years old, thanks to his college-level drinking skills.

After an earlier demonstration using copper wire, magnets and a battery to create a model railroad, YouTuber AmazingScience shows how to not only make a longer track, but to get the train to ride on the outside of the coil.

Mental Floss’ John Green takes a look at 43 words and terms that have made our way into our lexicon, after being made up by authors who decided think outside of the dictionary. That Samuel Taylor Coleridge sure was prolific.

Ragdoll cats are known for being particularly laid back and calm. But Milk the cat’s owner may have found a way to rattle the mild-mannered breed: try and brush their teeth.

Artist Headquake makes the bodies of his remote-controlled cars from scratch, spending many hours to get the details just right. We’ve seen them beside his cat and dolls yet barely believe they’re not real cars. More here and here.

Because of the drawn out conflict between Israel and terrorists from Hamas, Gaza’s citizens are imprisoned in their own land, with their access to basic goods heavily regulated. Banksy went there to remind us that these people need help.

Snowboarder Jamie Barrow is known for his speed, but this stunt took things to a whole new level. Ultimately, Jamie hit 78mph before letting go. We wonder if he wore a parachute if he could go airborne and then land safely. Probably not.

Two men demonstrate the combat skills (and balls) required to wield the Urumi, a deadly Indian weapon which combines properties of a sword and a whip. It’s easier to conceal than a sword, but can reach opponents at a longer distance.

There’s just something immensely satisfying about watching 5,000 matches go up in flames. YouTuber David Hill says he took over 10 hours to painstakingly glue together his creation, only to destroy it in about 10 seconds.

(NSFW: Language) Film buff Steven Benedict deftly weaves together a conversation between the characters of the Coen brothers, illuminating a trio of recurring themes surrounding identity, miscommunication and morality.

Robert Rugan’s live-action/animated short film tells the story of a children’s book author who’s asked by her publisher to make her books “darker,” but the characters in her book aren’t really happy with the proposed changes.

EPIX presents a wonderful interview with the legendary actor, which provides insight into the man and his inseparable association with Spock. Here’s an excerpt. The full interview airs 2/27 at 11pm, 2/28 at 540 and 10pm and 3/1 at 8pm ET.

Alex Boye and his bandmates aren’t fooling anyone in their old people’s makeup, but that doesn’t make this afro-pop cover of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars megahit any less fun and funky. Download the track on Bandcamp.

Ice-T is a Renaissance man. And based on these concepts he made on The Tonight Show, he could easily add cartoon voice actor to his resume. His take on Dora is every adult’s take, except without his brash delivery.

“Oh! Nice to meet you hungry, I’m Dad!”  Two of the corniest fathers on Earth have a showdown at a family restaurant. Everybody loses. We call this one Once a Pun a Time in the West. BA-BAM! We could totally beat these guys. That’s sad.