X-Alps – Amazing race 2

You are in Salzburg, Austria. You want to get to Monaco. How will you do it?

For a certain group of people, the answer is psychotically simple: Climb to the top of the nearest mountain, and launch yourself off it … View article

Amazing 3D drawings by Fredo

What were you doing when you were 17? I was trying and failing to pluck up the courage to talk to pretty girls, trying and failing to create an identity loosely based around characters in TV dramas, and repeating the … View article

Living with a gorilla

Yes, that is a man kissing a gorilla. Yes, they do live together. Yes, they do sleep in the same bed.

But it’s more of a father-daughter relationship. Pierre Thivillon is in fact happily married to a human woman (who … View article

Vogalonga – Amazing race 1

At Amazing Stuff, we like a good race, so we have decided to compile a selection of the world’s most amazing races. First into the Hall of Fame is the Vogalonga.

The British love a good river race. Henley Regatta, … View article

eLEGS exoskeleton

For the past 500 years, the only real option for paraplegics who want to stay mobile has been a chair with wheels on it. That’s fine by Aaron Fotheringham, the wheelchair stunt king, but pretty rubbish for most other … View article

Djemaa El Fna, Marrakech

As the world becomes more populated, time becomes more precious, and communications more virtual, the phenomenon of human interaction is in decline. Places which less than a hundred years ago would have been the hubs of communities, the centre of … View article

Amazing lip dub videos

My day got 300 times better when I discovered this new ‘lip dub’ video from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Who would not want to go a university that advertises itself like this?

Shot a week ago, this … View article

Amazing aircraft of the future

While engineers at Boeing and Bombardier tweak their in-flight menus and try to get their business class seats even flatter, those clever folk at Airbus have decided to do something useful, and create what they believe is the future of … View article

Marco Tempest: Techno magic

Sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clark said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Marco Tempest has taken what lies on this frontier and made an art out of it.

The self-styled ‘techno-illusionist’ is unique on the world stage … View article