Talks to Watch

Turbo Encabulator

2.4M views · Aug 24, 2007 · 1:50 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2017–2018

A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.

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Jokenn3Oct 2017
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The beginning narration sounds very similar (down to choice of words and sentences) to the famous Turbo Encabulator text this video

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JokevinchucoJan 2018
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This is not a case of the turbo encabulator [1] which you may seemingly enjoy. What he likely meant is that it is well known from the literature. Or there's an easy explanation that supersedes the verbose notation. [1] this video

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JokesheltronApr 2018
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Wow these are really great thanks for sharing. Heres a couple of others that I like. Differential Steering: link Turbo Encabulator: this video

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