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This Brilliantly Complex Rube Goldberg Machine Finally Puts Fidget Spinners To Good Use
Having survived the great fidget spinner fad of 2017, the world is now struggling to find ways to put billions of abandoned spinners to good use. It might not solve the problem of Everest-sized mountains of unwanted stress toys, but YouTuber Kaplamino’s latest Rube Goldberg machine at least finds a novel use for them.
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Hacking A Child’s Ride-On Toy To Hit 60km/h Trades Safety For Fun
With a top speed of around four or five miles per hour, most ride-on toys don’t provide much of a thrill – unless you throw safety out the window. The irresponsible chaps from YouTube’s The Real Life Guys channel upgraded a simple ride-on toy with a 15 horsepower engine that can accelerate it to over…
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Why The Drinking Bird Toy Is Actually A Brilliant Piece Of Thermodynamic Engineering
At some point in your life you’ve almost certainly marveled at the classic drinking bird toy, and probably lost a few brain cells trying to figure out how it works. Don’t be ashamed if you never successfully unravelled the science, though, as engineerguy Bill Hammack explains, even Einstein apparently couldn’t crack it.
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This Timelapse Of Canada Is Proof That The Country Isn’t Always Buried In Snow
Florian Nick spent six weeks travelling over 5,472km across the western provinces of Canada, waking up at the crack of dawn to point his camera at sunrises, and hiking up mountains to capture awe-inspiring vistas. The result is a three-and-a-half minute short film called Alive that’s full of so much colour and detail it almost…