Curious/Impressive Videos on TFTS - Page 3

If you haven’t already seen this video, then you’re in for a treat as the UK’s Top Gear program tests the top speed of the 16 cylinder, 1001 horsepower Bugatti Veyron on a five and a half mile straight.
The magic number they are looking for is an astounding 253mph/407km/h, which, …

With advertising appearing seemingly everywhere we are constantly bombarded with imagery designed to get our attention, but it is surprising to what extent we are able to filter these out as we go about our daily lives.
As a result advertisers are persistently coming up with new ways to present ads …

In theory voice recognition is a great idea, allowing us merely to reel off text just by sitting back in a chair and blabbing away.
But, like many theories, something often gets lost in the transition from theory into actual practice and our experiments with voice recognition certainly haven’t been a …

This interesting video shows exactly what an airliner’s wing has to go through before it takes to the air – and, in this case, we are talking about testing to complete destruction.
Boeing’s target for this particular test was that the wing should be able to withstand up to 150% greater …

I apologise if you have already come across this extremely thought provoking video already, but for those of you that haven’t I thought that it was definitely worth posting here as it is nothing short of brilliant.
Created by Michael Wesch who is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State …

Back in the day, when I had enough energy to stay up past ten o’clock and I had rhythm in my soul (it was never the right rhythm, but it was rhythm none the less), I saw many DJs who were a great deal less animated (and less talented) than …

We won’t make any excuses – we like aircraft here at TFTS Towers, and we especially like fast aircraft (and fast aircraft at low level, well…) and, judging by the popularity of previous aircraft related videos we’ve shown on Thoughts from the Sidelines, so do you.
That said, it’s been a …

Even though we are desperate to get our hands on a Wii console here at TFTS we still don’t have one – though I suspect appearing home with an Xbox 360 a few weeks back didn’t help in the ‘convince the wife that we should have one’ stakes (nevertheless, the …

Entitled ‘Isn’t it Beautiful what Hands can do’ this television advert for the VW Phaeton is one of those adverts that you genuinely don’t mind sitting back and watching (though, personally, any Honda ad – such as this one – is always guaranteed to get my full attention).
We’ve all made …

Whenever new see something that’ amusing and technology focused we like to do our best to bring it to your attention and, having previously featured the frankly brilliant video parody that focuses on what Apple’s iPod packaging would have looked like has it been manufactured – if you haven’t seen …

I must confess, as someone who had a passion for Lego when I was younger I watched this video in awe and I would urge anyone who has ever dabbled with Lego – and even those who have not – to see the video featured below as it’s absolutely remarkable …