Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back
Adults TechnologyShocking the brain has come and gone as a medical treatment, but it's currently resurging, as it often provides the best form of relief for severe depression and advanced Parkinson's disease.
Hey Buddy, Can You Give Me a Hand?
Adults TechnologyAre We Doomed? Boston Dynamics' Unsettling Robot Dog SpotMini Can Now Open The Door
GoPro: BMW Sets GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Title for Drifting - 4K
Adults TechnologyOn December 11th, 2017 BMW Drivers, Johan Schwartz and Matt Mullins, teamed up to set THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for Longest Vehicle Drift in 8 hours. In order for Johan to continuously drift the greatest distance possible, he must complete the world's first ever tandem drift refuel with Matt so that he will have enough gas to achieve his goal without stopping. Ride along with Johan Schwartz, Matt Mullins and Matt Butts in the all-new BMW M5 with M xDrive as they team up to shatter world records.
World's First Car!
Adults TechnologyI got to drive the world's first car (replica), patented by Benz in 1886
The Nuclear Waste Problem
Adults TechnologyNuclear energy is one of the cleanest, most efficient, and most available sources of power on earth.
Google Pixel Buds review
Adults TechnologyGoogle's Pixel Buds get a few of the basics right when it comes to wireless earbuds. Language translation via the Google Translate app is helpful in a pinch, and the Google Assistant experience is genuinely fast and fun. But these $159 earbuds are fussy, from the way that they fit in your ears to the way that they fit in the case. And not everyone will love the open design, which lets lots of outside noise in. The Pixel Buds are Google's first attempt at making wireless earbuds, and it shows.
Star Wars: Jedi Challenges puts you into an AR lightsaber duel
Adults TechnologyStar Wars: Jedi Challenges is a recently released augmented reality toy created by Disney and Lenovo, where you can use your phone to fight lightsaber duels and play Holochess.
Elon Musk's Basic Economics
Adults TechnologyImagine a $2,000 car... or a $100 laptop... or a $70 iPhone... or imagine any product, ten times cheaper than it was.
All Hollywood VFX Removed! What Movies Really Look Like
Adults TechnologyIt used to be that what you saw on a movie set would pretty much be what you saw in the final movie. If you wanted to have a mountain in the background, you'd have to go to one.
The U.S. & Russia Are Building a Deep Space Gateway, Here's What You Need to Know
Adults TechnologyThe U.S. and Russia have announced plans to put a new structure in the orbit of the moon. What will it look like?
This Engineer's Crazy Plan to Clean Air with Smog-Sucking Bikes
Adults TechnologyThese bicycles are designed to filter smog out of the air as you ride. This could be a game changer for smoggy cities like Beijing.
GoPro HERO6: This Is the Moment in 4K
Adults TechnologyLive the moment. Capture the moment. Share the moment. HERO6 is here, and the moment is now.
How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?
Adults TechnologyEngineering tons of metal to fly straight up is no easy feat. Here's how helicopter blades make vertical flight a reality.
Engineers Love to Break Airplanes Before You Fly in Them, Here's Why
Adults TechnologyAirplane technology has come a long way, but it has limits. Lucky for us, there are teams of people whose job it is to find those limits.
Why China is putting robots in nursing homes
Adults TechnologyChina has more than 230 million senior citizens. To keep them company, it's encouraging nursing homes to buy companionship robots.
Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI
Adults TechnologyWe live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it's natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence replace humans, take our jobs, and destroy human civilization? Or will AI just become tools like regular computers. AI researcher Max Tegmark helps explain the myths and facts about superintelligence, the impending machine takeover, etc.
Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat
Adults TechnologyThe universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast, apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. But is there such thing as a total absence of everything? Is it possible to make a completely empty space? Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat explain the science behind vacuums.
The Problem With Our Phones
Adults TechnologyThey are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don't entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones.
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
Adults TechnologyThis sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
These College Students Built a Hyperloop Pod... Here's What Happened
Adults TechnologyCollege can be stressful with all the classes, exams and social events to balance. Now, imagine doing all that while building a Hyperloop pod that will be judged by Elon Musk... no pressure. A scrappy group of students from Wisconsin boldly took on that challenge, and they learned that no matter how many all-nighters you pull, there's always more work to be done.