Category: Videos
MMM: Trunk Monkey
Swirling Vortex of Doom
Worth posting for the title alone.
Damn Interesting: Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable free it. In their attempts to work the drill loose, which is normally fairly easy at that shallow depth, the men heard a series of loud pops, just before the rig tilted precariously towards the water. (more…)
MMM: Stout Scarab
Retro-futuristic concept from Frankfurt perhaps? No, this spaceframe-monocoque MPV, with independent suspension, coil springs, flexible seating and push-button doors, was built in the 1930s by a gent named Bill Stout.
Unfortunately it was about four times more expensive than comparable cars, so it’s been consigned to history, it’s innovations mostly forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYRpzdjENWQ
(Thanks to kingdom hoop for the pointer.)
MMM: Don’t Want One
It’s just silly, isn’t it. And so un-Audi; even the RS4 is relatively subtle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQMaRRrXX-8
Content Aware Image Resizing
(Another one stuck in the flush mechanism.)
The narration is textbook nerd, but get over it and watch the whole thing. These guys and their technology are going places. Gone places actually, one of them’s already been snapped up by Adobe.
Smart Image Resizing
The narration on this is a bit Norman House, but when you’re this clever you’re allowed. Very much a why-didn’t-i-think-of-that technology, these guys are going to do very well for themselves.