Subjects: General

Engineering student Andrew Gray has conceived many peculiar inventions, but his pet bird’s favourite is his robotic bird buggy.

Jay recreates an experiment from the 1930s: two ropes hanging far apart from a ceiling where people need to somehow get them close enough to be able to tie them together.

Mad Engineer Carolyn Campbell Knight is testing an insane prototype vehicle that she is hoping will smash speed records and transform aerospace science as we know it.

Pete Smith, one of Britain’s top blacksmiths, has created an Equinox tracker that is part sundial and part calendar.

Markus Kayser has created a 3D printer that prints glass objects using sunlight and sand.

New York Artist Adam Harvey has created a line counter-surveillance clothing that protects the wearer’s identity from thermal imaging cameras.

Patrick Drane torture tests bats at the Baseball Research Center in Lowell, Massachusetts, to make America’s favourite pastime safer.

Jay tests a well-established psycological idea that if you give people a set of things that are identical and ask them to choose the best one, they will choose one and give you a reason why.

Researchers are trying to figure out what is making the mysterious humming sound in Windsor, Ontario.

Meet a disabled but adorable little piglet who has his very own wheelchair.