Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Nano Quadrotor Swarm

Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. If Cyberdyne Systems is going to appear anywhere, my money is on Pennsylvania. These cheeky little bots have been taught to fly in various formations and switch between those formations in three dimensions. It’s just a matter of time before [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Ed Sheeran – Drunk

Meet Ed Sheeran, he’s ginger but do let that put you off. Here he is, trying to get over his ex-girlfriend and forgetting the pain by getting drunk with a cat and let this be a lesson to cat owners everywhere: never let your cat get drunk because they are a mean drunk. A few [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Yelle – Comme Un Enfant (Freaks Remix)

Get your freak on with these funksome dance moves from a bald guy in flares and a turquoise roll neck. That’s right, he may look like someone’s weird neighbour in a 1970s suburbia sitcom but that doesn’t stop him from opening up a can of badass as he busts some shapes all up in yo [...]

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Women vs Men: Not So Parallel (parked)

A British study billed as “the most comprehensive ever conducted on gender driving differences” has concluded that women are better at parking cars than men. The study, which relied on surveillence camera footage of over 2,500 drivers across 700 parking garages, was devised by professional driving instructor Neil Beeson, and produced by car park firm [...]

Monday, January 30th, 2012

DON’T FLOP – Rap Battle – ‬Blizzard Vs Mark Grist

Don’t flop is good advice no matter what activity you’re indulging in and definitely not in rap battles. And definitely not in a rap battle where a pupil takes on his teacher. But while you’d think the kid might be more down with it and pwn teach, he actually gets schooled as teach takes it [...]

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Dicken feat. Milah & Korben: ‘Everything Counts’

Is this the coolest dad in the history of dadhood? Not only is he spending quality time with his kids but they’re doing an awesome activity, laying down a cool Depeche Mode track which they get to perform on, rocking the keyboard and the recorder. And to top it all off and make us all [...]

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Finnair Flight Goes Bollywood

In the Nordics they do air travel very different to the rest of the planet. No, they’re not completely bombed out of their minds, but instead they’re celebrating India’s Republic Day by literally rocking out in the aisles. A dancing flight crew surprises (annoys?) passengers after they’ve boarded a Finnair flight to Delhi, so [...]

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Celebrity Sleepovers

Mark Malkoff is living the Hollywood dream, but in the same rotten global economy we all are, so when he went to LA, instead of staying in a hotel, he asked celebrities if he could sleepover at their homes. Not really big celebrities like Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts but the ‘less’ major people who [...]

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Household Beat Challenge

Another musical mashup for you, though this one doesn’t use a movie for samples. The guy who made this is so good at it that he takes challenges from his viewers and the challenge here was to make a beat using only re-purposed sounds that he could make using household items. A plastic bag rustling, [...]

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Yosemite HD

Yosemite National Park, featuring a valley carved out of the American landscape by glaciers 4,000ft wide 1 million years ago. Yes, it’s one of those places where it’s OK to be totally wowed by nature and not come across like some leaf-loving hippy. It’s a place of stunning beauty, exactly the sort of place where [...]

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Famous Photographs Meet Their Creators

The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.