Awesome Videos

DaveHax shows us how to create a tiny, but still dangerous crossbow using a plastic bottle cap, a couple of popsicle sticks and a rubber band. The ammunition? Toothpicks, Q-Tips or flaming matchsticks. Daryl Dixon approves.

“New research indicates that your brain got broken and you shouldn’t have done this.” The Onion stokes the stoner’s paranoia with this hilarious skit. The fun doesn’t stop here: their site has several slightly different versions of the clip.

Yes, we wish they would stop calling these “8-bit” too, but that doesn’t make 16-bit version of David Fincher’s Fight Club, visualized as a side-scroller beat-em-up any less awesome. Bonus points for the penguin level.

A remote-controlled Subaru Impreza WRX STI toy car races against a very long and elaborate stick bomb. We’re not sure what Subaru is trying to prove here, but it’s got great action and is a lot of fun to watch.

In this awesome footage from Epic TV’s new series A Straight Shot, pilot Dan Vicary flies over the powdery Swiss Alps, while tailed just eight feet behind by cameraman Brian Drake in his own squirrel suit.

Google presented a non-functioning prototype of the Project Ara modular smartphone at This Week in Startups. The bare bones model could cost as low as $50 and will come in three sizes. Skip to around 6:00 for the demo.

We don’t remember the quality being this bad on our TVs in 1995, buy we still laughed at this parody of Game of Thrones done in the style of shows like Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and especially Highlander.

After dishing out an incredible performance of Lorde’s Royals, the 7-foot-tall sad clown with the golden voice is back to cover another of one of the Kiwi teen’s tracks in his own inimitable style.

We’ve been waiting since 1989 for Hoverboards to become reality. In this promo for HUVrTech, Tony Hawk and other celebs get to try out the world’s first functional hoverboard. Yes, it all looks like VFX trickery, but we want to believe.

Who wouldn’t want to have a building-sized walking tank? This fun commercial for the run-and-gun fps Titanfall is a pure power trip. On second thought let’s just keep the mayhem and wanton destruction in virtual worlds.

Jack Vale’s prank to help spread awareness about colon cancer. Dressed up as a doctor, he told patients who had just had a colonoscopy and were still groggy from anesthesia that they had random objects up their butts.

In this sketch from the 2014 Spirit Awards, Patton Oswalt and 5SecondFilms simultaneously poked fun at the stripped-down style and pretension of some independent films, hipsters and crowdsourcing sites like Kickstarter.

Swordsman Shozo Kato Sensei has attained 8th Dan in Kyoshi Kendo and 7th Dan in Kyoshi Iaido. Here he describes the heart of both martial arts. A short film that’s part of Mercedes-Benz’ The Avant/Garde Diaries.

(Lyrics NSFW) Parkour and freerunning athlete Gaëtan Bouillet collaborated with TocardProd Films to create this captivating short film highlighting the champion’s acrobatic skills. The fast tracking shots are really impressive.

“It’s either back with the Lakers next year or I’m done.” In Grantland’s rare inside look at the troubled times of Steve Nash, the league’s oldest active player receives troubling news, but is determined to fight and hope.

That tiny speck at the end of the mast is sailor Alex Thomson, who scurried up the 98-foot-tall mast of his racing sailboat while the boat was angled in the water. If that’s not crazy enough, he took a flying leap when he got to the top.

Scientists, you need to get a hold of Reese Witherspoon ASAP. The actress revealed an uncanny hidden talent at the 2014 Spirit Awards. Or there was an editing error in the broadcast. Nah she can teleport. Let’s go with that.

During a recent airing of The Tonight Show, Tina Fey decided it would be a good idea to interview herself, and Jimmy Fallon helped make it happen with a little cheap video trickery. The Endless Love duet is priceless.

Buzzfeed examines exactly how strange cat behavior can be by imagining what it would be like if humans acted like our feline companions. Not so cute after all. Quick, distract him with a giant laser pointer! Man, cats are so weird.

The tale of an orphan who became a warrior, pioneer and worthy representative of his race. YouTuber doubleg1701 presents some memorable clips of Star Trek’s Worf over Kanye West’s Ridged Forehead Black Skinhead.

The Smart rear-view mirror has a hidden LCD monitor. At the flick of a switch the driver can switch to a live feed from a camera mounted at the rear of the vehicle to get a view unobstructed by passengers or cargo at the back.

With the help of a flying drone, Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari captured this incredible footage of thousands of common dolphins stampeding off of Dana Point, California. He also snooped on some humpback whales.

If you thought the ravers dancing to Yakety Sax was funny, check out this mashup by YouTuber Roman Lamcev. Yep, it’s based on an actual music video. Now imagine these dudes moshing without any music while they were shooting.