Awesome Videos

Following up on their giant round of Jenga, Caterpillar shows off the durability of their rugged Cat B15 smartphone by first dropping them in a vat of water, then running over 600 of them with a 4.6-ton multi-terrain loader.

After John Oliver skewered POM for hyperbolic claims about pomegranate juice like “what it does for prostate cancer is amazing,” POM replied by sending him a case of juice, and an elegantly written letter with a perfectly veiled subtext.

(Gore) A skit from The Onion SportsDome about a disabled Army vet who can’t get into the UFC because of his handicap. In case that sentence just made you unsheathe your righteousness, we’re going to say it again: it’s from The Onion.

Be careful what you say about Bey. Saturday Night Live and guest host Andrew Garfield poke fun at Beyoncé’s rabid fan base with this hilarious skit, which also features a very timely cameo.

The pages of The Drinkable Book contains tips on proper sanitation & hygiene, but more importantly, they’re function as water filters. Each book can provide clean water for up to four years and costs just pennies to make.

It’s hard enough to keep your cool when racing cars on a track as harrowing as the Bathurst circuit, but in this footage from a V8 Supercars race, driver Cameron Waters makes even a 360° spinout look like it was all part of his plan.

Stegmeier53 saw this woodcock by the side of the road. As he stopped to take a picture, the bird seemed to dance to the music playing in his car – Daft Punk’s Something About Us. We call its signature move the Hiccup Two-Step.

Matthew Ballard’s profile of Iijima Hiroki, a 22-year old kendama enthusiast. The kendama is a toy that requires excellent hand-eye coordination and reflexes. Iijima loves to spice things up by freestyle dancing while playing.

NPR talks about Schlieren Flow Visualization, a photographic technique that allows us to see changes in air density, making it possible to view the presence and flow of heat, fluids and sound.

Calarts animation student John Cody Kim created this charming short film about a faithful pembroke welsh corgi left behind when the zombiepocalypse breaks out. Naturally, he’ll never gives up on his master – or his shoe.

While his dance moves and decorating skills definitely could use some work, you have to hand it to this guy for his dedication, as he did the same exact choreography every day for over 100 days to shoot this video.

Frane Selak is world famous for his uncanny luck in fatally unlucky situations. Over a 40-year period, he survived numerous deadly accidents, from his own car bursting into flames to falling out of a plane. So far, luck is still on his side.

CBC Music presents some of the most memorable gibberish from alternative rock bands of the 90s, aka lyrics you can nail even when you’re drunk, aka the proto-Sigur Rós. HEEYEAH YEAH HEH HEH HEEEYEAAH YEAH

Jimmy Fallon, The Ragtime Gals and guest member Kevin Spacey take on Jason Derulo’s Talk Dirty. We like their take on Ignition better, but this one’s worth watching, if only so you’ll realize that Kevin Spacey can’t help but be creepy.

This funny conversation apparently took place between a radio show host and a caller in the Dominican Republic. The caller asked the host to play a really popular song that has the line “Esos son Reebok o son Nike.” Wait for it…

This promo for the Walley POS-86 digital camera skewers the hyperbolic, self-important marketing style perfected by Apple, and propagated by Kickstarter, driving home the point that we all too often buy based on the sizzle, not the steak.

Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT’s Biomechatronics group develop artificial limbs that complete or augment the human body. His presentation is amazing, but if you’re short on time skip to 13:40. Really, watch the whole thing.

(NSFW: Language) Are you sick of kindhearted pranks? Watch The Hacks of Life’s Grand Scam, a series of lies and tricks that allowed him to get good seats plus food and drinks at the Dodgers stadium, all for free. Or so he says.

The increasingly grumpy Conan O’Brien takes a look at a few highly rated stress relieving apps. They only serve to make him angrier though, as they confound him with tacky gimmicks and intrusive advertisements.

In this short film that served as the opener for the 2014 White House Correspondent’s Dinner, Veep’s Selina Meyer gets a ride in a ‘Vette, grabs some ice cream and gets a tattoo with Joe Biden. And yes, the oval office has no corners.

How It Should Have Ended and Brotherhood Workshop take on the stop-motion animated LEGO Movie, and the implausible capture of all of those LEGO superheroes towards the end of the flick… as if the rest of the flick was plausible.

Ah… remember video stores? BuzzFeed Yellow envisions what today’s rental shops might be like if they acted more like Netflix, with its incessant and weird recommendations, and often limited library. At least they make good original series.

One YouTube commenter described Neil Cicierega’s mashup of Elton John’s Crocodile Rock with System of a Down’s Chop Suey! as “horrifyingly awesome.” We couldn’t agree more. I cry when angels deserve to die. La, la la la la la…