Watch Astrid—Lego designer by day and awesome dancer and fencer by night—show and explain the newest set in the awesome Lego Creator Modular Building series: the 10232 Palace Cinema. Why? Because 1) it’s our desired Lego set of the month, 2) she’s one of its authors, and 3) she has an awesome Danish accent. More »
Making Artificial Eyes Is 50-Percent Fascinating, 50-Percent Surprising, 100-Percent Gross
Posted in: Today's Chili There’s something about teeth and eyes out of their sockets that gives me the creeps. That’s why this video of a medical laboratory that has been making artificial eyes since World War I is kind of gross—but also fascinating. And quite surprising. I couldn’t have imagined that they make the veins with red thread, for example. A good watch. More »
Damn This Lunar Rover Video Is Fun
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Posted in: Today's Chili The Lego Back to the Future set went official last year. Now it’s time for another classic from the 80s: the A-Team van. Unlike the Back to the Future set, this one is a fully functional, remote controlled Technic model—which is even better. i love when a set comes together. Please Vimal Patel, submit this to Cuusoo ASAP. [YouTube via Brothers Brick] More »
The video wants to make me rip my eyes off with the edge of my Xbox gamepad, but it heralds an immediate future that fires a clusterstorm of nerdgasms inside my sci-fi-damaged brain. It shows what Capri, the next 3D sensor by the makers of Microsoft Kinect, is bringing to us: extreme precision, fast motion tracking that gadget makers would be able to embed everywhere, from your tablet, laptop and TV to elevators, robots and appliances. It basically enables a future in which you are some kind of Jedi or wizard, casually waving your hand at things to make them work. More »