The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can’t be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that. ■ Predator Free Wellington: https://www.pfw.org.nz/ Predator Free 2050: https://pf2050.co.nz/ Editor: Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux Camera: Conor Cameron […]
Wellington, in New Zealand, has more than a hundred private cable cars. I found out why. ■ Access Automation: https://accessauto.co.nz/ ■ Rose’s book: https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/all-who-live-on-islands/ Editor: Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux Producer: Virginia Wickham at Kevin & Co https://www.kevinandco.co.nz/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there […]
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is not just the world’s oldest hotel, but the world’s oldest still-operating business. Or at least, that’s one way of looking at it. But things are changing here, just like they always have. ■ The hotel: https://www.keiunkan.co.jp/ Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera: Julian Domanski […]
The DMV, or Dual Mode Vehicle, on the Asa Coast Railway in Shikoku, Japan, is a hybrid bus and train. And I rode it. ■ The railway: https://asatetu.com/en/ (English) or https://asatetu.com/ (Japanese) An accessible English dub of this video is available. Plus, as there was (unusually) room for it in […]
I was going to film a video about a robot bicycle park. And then GIKEN, the company who built it, said: you know we do this for cars as well, right? ■ More details: https://www.giken.com/en/products/automated-parking-facilities/ Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera: Julian Domanski Editor: Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux I’m […]
I thought maglev trains were a dead-end technology: but it looks like I was wrong. At JR Central’s Yamanashi Maglev Test Track, I rode Japan’s new maglev. ■ The maglev: https://scmaglev.jr-central-global.com/ ■ The exhibition centre: https://www.linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp/english/index.html Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera and edit: Julian Domanski (This video […]
Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft. ■ The Laboratory: @hideito9042 http://mhlabo.web.fc2.com/ or https://twitter.com/microhovercraft Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera and edit: Julian Domanski (This video has an English dub available on supported devices. Change the […]
The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind tunnel but in reverse. So rather than just show it to the world, I thought I’d answer a question: if you stick a camera on […]
In an old mill in a remote corner of Italy, sits the Bathysphere Project at Explorandia: a submarine simulator that explores an actual, small pond. It might be the best homemade project I’ve ever seen. ■ More: https://www.explorandia.it/page/bathysphere Edited by Julian Domanski 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find […]
Through the mountains of Slovenia, there are manual cable cars: some historic, some more modern. There aren’t many left. I was able to try one, and to talk to the person who still maintains it. Just to be clear, there are a few of these in other places in the […]
