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Kaplamino – The blue marble

Posted on February 8th, 2018 by Hitstun

Domino builder Kaplamino also experiments with Rube Goldberg contraptions like PythagoraSwitch. Here, Kaplamino challenged himself to launch a tiny blue marble all over a tilted table in using clever magnet tricks. All these unstable setups arranged in 2D make me want to play some Incredible Machine. Source: Kaplamino via TwistedSifter…again, like my other marble video […]

Casey Neistat – Human Flying Drone

Posted on December 23rd, 2016 by Hitstun

I finally dig my way out of backlogs and fake news and find a ten foot monster drone carrying a snowboarding filmmaker. Doesn’t that make it a helicopter instead? Casey Neistat, best known for crashing his bike, puts his life in the hands of the world’s largest homemade drone as it tows him all over […]

Crappy Design

Posted on October 6th, 2016 by Hitstun

/r/CrappyDesign is a blindingly colorful Subreddit that collects unfortunate design mistakes from all over the world. They’re the Engrish.com of half-baked engineering. Good old TwistedSifter recently did what I do with artists and made a post of the best/worst of the bunch. 25 Examples of Crappy Design Source: TwistedSifter via RSS feed, video of a […]

Keiichi Matsuda – Hyper-Reality

Posted on May 31st, 2016 by Hitstun

Oh no, is this how augmented reality will end up? Graphic designer Keiichi Matsuda imagines Medellin, Colombia with a glitchy layer of graphics, apps, and ads covering it from top to bottom. These things are fine on my phone because they go away when I put my phone away. With augmented reality, there’s no escape. […]

Flyboard Air Test 1

Posted on April 14th, 2016 by Hitstun

Now this is a hoverboard! Zapata Racing makes those water jetpacks for your feet, and now they’re cranking up the power and making a Flyboard that flies through open air. The Flyboard Air can apparently fly for 10 minutes at up to 93 mph and 10,000 feet. If even half of this is real, I […]