Seen here with an exceptionally patient model, this is a seven minute video of the Helpful Vancouver Vet (aka Dr. Uri Burstyn) from his series of practical skills for pet owners, this time discussing and demonstrating how to properly approach, pick up, and handle a cat that is both comfortable for the cat, and safest for you to avoid scratches and/or bites. “Pfft, you wanna pick up a cat? Just tell them you have Fancy Feast and an ounce of catnip at home.” Ha — the ol’ college pizza and weed routine? I expected more from you.

Keep going for the full, very informative video.

Source: Geekologie – Valuable Information: How To Properly Pick Up A Cat

This is a short dashcam video from a highway in Taiwan where a box falls out of the back of a truck and magically blows back inside not once but twice. TWICE! Was it caused by the truck’s draft? Or was it caused by magic? Whatever the case, the driver was still fined for not properly bundling and securing the boxes, which I assume is a fanciee way of saying driving with the back door wide open.

Keep going for the whole video, but the gif is the real magic.

Source: Geekologie – What The: Box Falls Out Of Truck And Blows Back In Twice

This is a video demonstration of ‘The Conflicted Candle’, a machine built by engineer James Cochrane that repeatedly lights a candle then extinguishes it approximately 15 seconds later. For reference, that’s significantly faster than I extinguished the candles downstairs last night, because they were still burning when I woke up this morning. I hate it when that happens, even when they don’t start a fire. I mean, candles are expensive. At least in stores. Honestly I’ve found the best deals on candles are in friends’ guest bathrooms.

Keep going for the video.

Source: Geekologie – Useless Invention That Repeatedly Lights, Extinguishes Candle

Keep going for the video, final reveal at 32:00.

Source: Geekologie – Video Of Professional Detailer 20-Hour Deep Cleaning The Nastiest Van He’s Ever Seen

This is a video from the DEEP LOOK video series produced by KQED San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios starring the glasswing butterfly (Greta oto), a species of brush-footed butterfly that has almost perfectly transparent wings to help it blend into the background and evade predators. Apparently the wings are “covered in an anti-glare nano-coating,” presumably developed by the top secret government lab that accidentally released the butterflies in the first place. DUM DUM DUM! If you had to have one clear body part, what would you choose? My girlfriend just said her foot but I feel like she was just trying to shut me up and didn’t give it much thought, which is pretty much the way I feel about every question I ask her except what she wants to eat. That she’ll consider like she’s being interviewed for her dream job.

Keep going for the full, very informative video.

Source: Geekologie – So See-Thru: A Video About The Glasswing Butterfly

This is a video of musician Dan Mace creating an ASMR song out of the most satisfying sounds he could think of and record, including (but not limited to) a camera’s shutter, golf swing, harp, popping bottle of champagne, crushing ice, striking match, ripping hair off leg, breaking eggs, tearing lettuce, opening a Snapple bottle, biting into an apple, a tennis ball bouncing, David Attenborough’s voice, Velcro ripping, removing the protective plastic off a laptop screen, and babies crying. I’m kidding, he didn’t actually include babies crying because that’s the worst sound in the world both to parents and to people who don’t have children, but parents can tune out the sound of their own kids crying because that part of their brain has been permanently damaged.

Keep going for the video, actual song begins around 3:10.

Source: Geekologie – Guy Turns The Most Satisfying Sounds He Can Think Of Into An ASMR Song

Keep going for the video.

Source: Geekologie – There Can Be Only One: Street Cat Vs Ninja Rat

Keep going for the long, almost too informative video. This man has some gadgets!

Source: Geekologie – Valuable Info: How To Apply Holograms To Chocolate

This is a video of some lunatic going nuts brushing his teeth and all around losing his mind while at a live Merzbow concert, which sounded less like a concert and more a flagrant attempt to destroy my eardrums. Some more info about Merzbow:

Merzbow is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita. Merzbow is best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise.

Hmmm, best known for a style of hard, confrontational noise? You know *looks around nervously, lowers voice* they should really get my girlfriend on a track. “48 with scattered thunderstorms.” Huh? “Your forecast for sleeping outside tonight.” It was a joke, honey!

Keep going for a short video of just the maniac, as well as a longer video of the whole track, with dude very clearly visible in a lot of the shots (he’s hard to miss).

Source: Geekologie – Guy Goes Nuts Brushing Teeth During Live Concert

This is a video of what appears to be a penis-headed seaslug (a “carnivorous nudibranch from the Melibe genus”) devouring anything unfortunate enough to be in the way of its freaky expanding mouth hole as it meanders across the seafloor off the coast of Indonesia. Ha, and people still don’t believe in aliens. How much more proof do you need, sheeple?! It’s time to wake up! “Huh?” I’m serious this isn’t a dream I’m your mom and you’re late for school.

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Source: Geekologie – WTF Are You?: Freaky Deaky Predator Seaslug Eating Everything In Its Path

This is a video (with multiple angles) of two paragliders running into each other, and the helmet-cam footage from one as he returns to the ground. It’s crazy — all that vast, empty blue sky up there and you manage to run into another person. That’s like never failing to run into one of my parents’ church friends whenever I’m out. Like of all the liquor stores in the world, you had to buy your losing lotto tickets from this one while I’m yelling at the clerk about how the last bottle of tequila he sold me was defective.

Keep going for the video. Honestly, I blame Tesla’s Autopilot feature.

Source: Geekologie – Watch Where You’re Going!: Two Paragliders Collide In Mid-Air (Where Else?)

This is a short video about the “taste display” Norimaki Synthesizer that can allegedly replicate the taste of any flavor on a user’s tongue. Some more info while I set my Norimaki Synthesizer to nipple:

It uses a set of five electrolytic flavor gels which are electrically stimulated to produce taste sensations on its user’s tongue. The process of electrophoresis is used to subtractively adjust the amount of sweet (glycine), salty (sodium chloride), bitter (magnesium chloride), acidic (citric acid) and umami (glutamic sodium) flavors which are released. Theoretically, these five base flavors could replicate just about any flavor you’d like, and the system has already been used to simulate flavors ranging from sushi to gummy candies.

But how well does it actually work? And shouldn’t it be combined with Smell-O-Vision for the full tasting experience? Still, I suppose even if i doesn’t work, at least if you use as seen in the gif you’ll have a better idea how to pleasure a robot, which will be an important skill to have in the future.

Keep going for the full video, which isn’t much more than the gif really.

Source: Geekologie – Taste-O-Vision: A Device That Can Allegedly Synethesize Any Flavor On Your Tongue

A Tesla Model 3 in Autopilot mode while traveling along Taiwan’s National Highway 1 apparently failed to detect an overturned truck until it was too late, breaking at the last moment before crashing right into the top of it like the Kool-Aid Man. Some more details while I wonder how much longer I’ve got until somebody runs me over in Autopilot:

“The Fourth Highway Police Brigade said that driving Tesla was a 53-year-old man named Huang, who claimed to have turned on the vehicle assist system at the time. It was thought that the vehicle would detect an obstacle and slow down or stop, but the car still moved at a fixed speed, so when the brakes were to be applied at the last moment, it would be too late to cause a disaster.”

It’s crazy how much people trust features like this. Like this is your life and the lives of the motorists around you at stake and you’re taking a nap or playing on your phone because you’ve got a false sense of safety and security. And just look where it got this guy. “Side view mirror deep into a box truck.” Exactly.

Keep going for two different angles of the accident, as well as a shot of the Tesla afterwards that appears to indicate the truck was carrying a load of secret sauce.

Source: Geekologie – Autopiloting Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Roof Of Overturned Box Truck On Highway

These are three videos from Youtuber Curious Reviewers providing humorous in-depth analysis and review of video game bathrooms. His commentary is pretty insightful, like this excerpt for tthe gif above:

I felt authentic showers of Heavy Rain, I’ve been on the toilet in Beyond Two Souls, I was even able to acquire a shower in Sonic Adventures, using the shower for countless hours as Tails kept me company, enhancing the experience.

His voice is so soothing, I almost felt like I was taking a shower in his words. I’m not even sure what that means, I’m really just waiting for some pervert in the comments to let us know how difficult a fap these videos proved. “Pfft, 3 out of 10 tops.” Dammit, not you too.

Keep going for three (yes, three!) videos of video game bathroom tours.

Source: Geekologie – Do What You Love: Man Provides In-Depth Reviews Of Video Game Bathrooms