If you ever wanted to cross the Batmobile with glitter, a pink flamingo, neon lights, and Disney this might just be the ticket for you. This site has a bunch of photos of extremely customized Japanese vans. This thumbnail here is only one example of how crazy they get customizing over in Japan. Click over and see the other insain van photos.

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Here is a bizarre video of what happens to a Furby toy when it is microwaved. The head of the Furby burns brightly and then catchs on fire before burning down into a pile of ash. For a good time.

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The guy in this video demonstrates a Rubens Tube. He has a speaker at one end of a piece of PVC pipe that contains holes. He runs propane into the tube and lights it up like a camp stove. The pipes sound through the speaker and the sound waves compress the air in the tube giving the sound wave visualization in the flames.

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The demonstration in this video shows a guy powering a lightbulb and then electric motor using candles. He has two candles and drives a nail into each. He magnetizes the nails and hooks a wire to each one and then to the lightbulb. Next he lights the two candles and the lightbulb powers up.

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Here's a video of a Christmas light setup syncronized to music. Apparently the score is Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve Sarajevo and the lights do a pretty good job of accenting the music. Not all of the lights are set to the music as some of the front white lights on the left and right side of the setup are not syncronized. The real question is does this guy have that thing going on the entire time or he only setup the syncronization to record it. It probably drives the neighbors nuts if it repeats over and over like that the whole time for a month.

Check out the video of the syncronized light show below or click over and view it on the host site.

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Here is a pretty good Star Wars fanfilm filmed out in the Maryland woods. The theme is two force users face off in the woods where I assume one of them is a Sith and one is a Jedi. The interesting part about the fanfilm though is the Jedi guy reads a letter from a dead Civil War soldier to his wife. In the context of the Star Wars universe the references to the Civil War and the Revolution fit pretty well. The lightsaber effects are also  pretty professional looking. One thing I did notice was that when one of them dies at the end his lightsaber drops but doesn't turn off.

Watch the Jedi battle Star Wars fanfiction video below or click over and view it on the host site.

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Here's a video from what looks like some kind of tradeshow at the Philips booth where they demonstrate light emitting fabric called lumalive. They have people wearing t-shirts with moving light animations on them, chairs with moving light images in the backs of them, and a couch with the back filled with light moving icons. The video is pretty light on technical details however. As far as I can tell the tshirts look pretty bulky (somewhat like a bulletproof vest). The back of the chair though looks pretty good and the woman even presses in on the light area to show that it isn't just a flat light emitting surface. I'm guess it's either embedded LEDs, electroluminescence, or a flexable LCD.

Check out the video of the light up t-shirts below or click over and view it on the host site.

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Here is a weird video of something called a 'Time Fountain' which is an illusion that looks like water drops as suspended in air. Apparently the drops of water have fluorescence in them which causes them to glow in the dark. The guy has a rack of blacklight (ultraviolet) lights setup near where the water is dripping. The lights are timed to the water dropping so it looks like the drops are suspended in air. Additionally he can make it look like the drops are falling in slow motion by varying the blacklight flashs. Lastly near the end of the video the water drops seem to reverse and flow upwards. An explaination of how to build your own is available here.

Watch this weird time fountain video for yourself below or click over and view it on the host site.

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In this video the guy has a steel wool wire setup which he lights on fire and swings around. It starts out slow but ramps up pretty quick until he is throwing huge whirls of sparks all over the place including over twenty feet in the air. Fourth of July pinwheels have nothing on this super sparkler pinwheel. I'd go as far as to say this video is better than the fire whip jump rope video we featured recently. It's hard to tell if the fire wire is throwing off more sparks when it is hitting the ground or it is just burning faster.

Check out the full video of the guy whiping the fire wire pinwheel around below or click over and view it on the host site.

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Here's a short clip of fireworks over Disneyland which is about fourty seconds long or so. The castle itself is also lit up and they time the lighting on the castle itself to fit with the fireworks. When the fireworks are all white they turn off all the castle lights and you get a black castle silhouette against the fireworks. Presumably this is just a regular fireworks show and not a 4th of July show (and not from 2006 either). There are quite a few people in the crowd in front of the person taking the video too. Wonder what their recording restrictions are at these events.

Watch the full video clip below from the Disneyland firework show or click over and view it on the host site.

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