In this video they have a wiimote controlling an industrial arm robot. The two different things they try are attaching a tennis racquet to the robot arm and attaching a sword to the robot arm. One noticeable thing is that the robot arm lags considerably behind the wiimote movement.
Here's a video of that prehistoric shark that was caught off the coast of Japan. It looks like a cross between an electric eel and the flying dog from the Neverending Story. Apparently the shark died shortly after the video was filmed.
Guy in this video sits in a car seat which is welded to a robotic arm. The arm swings him around and I assume it is controlled by a human operator verses a recorded or random sequence of movements. Even so a couple times he almost hits his head on the ground for a Darwin Award.
This video is from an auto show in the UK where they had all the pieces of a F1 car split out and wired into midair like a 3D cutaway. The person recording the video walks completely around the suspended car. I assume the wire goes from ceiling to floor so that the pieces don't swing.
Here's an interesting 'website browser' built in Javascript which fakes a 3D browser environment. It displays screen shots of sites in a floating cube which you can navigate in 3D through. You can click on a site to full screen it and make it interactive. I think he is just using Javascript to fake the 3D and not SVG.
Here's a video of a guy playing air hockey with a robot he built. The robot tracks the puck with a camera and then uses it's harm to hit the puck away. It seems to be pretty good if a little slow. For example, it seems to have trouble recognizing when the puck is still on it's own side of the line after hitting it.
Here is a pretty bizarre video (commercial?) featuring an ostrich skiing. I can't tell if it's a real ostrich, a CG ostrich, an ostrich on a blue/green screen, a person in an ostrich suit, or a combination of all three. CG for the win or real ostrich?
Guy launchs a remote control aircraft from the back of his car, controls the RC plane with some VR glasses and remote, takes some aerial photos from the RC plane, and imports them into Google Earth for a good time in this video. Everything he's using seems like just off the shelf hardware that he's put togather himself.
