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Consumer Reports has posted a number of crash videos from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety for a number of vehicles. There is a decent variety of makes and models covered and the videos include some commentary describing the crash and the potential for injuries. These videos could be useful while shopping for a new car or just to kill time watching thousands of dollars worth of new automobiles get turned into wreckage. |
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I thought this was a pretty good photograph of lightning hitting a tree captured precisely at the time of impact taken by Flickr user aixcracker. He has a few other lightning shots that are also pretty good. |
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As proven on a couple of occasions, I enjoy photo galleries taken by high speed cameras. The latest gallery is thanks to the work or Martin Klimas that feature ceramic figures being dropped and captured by a super fast camera as he captures the transformation of the figure from one form to another albeit from whole to broken. The Morning News Article features and interview with Klimas where he briefly discusses the process and how the photos are captured. |
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Phoronix reviewed Corsair’s Flash Survivor putting it through a few tests to see what it could survive. The test where they boiled water with the drive (pictured to the left) is clearly my favorite. Still, if I had a USB drive that I was give to review, I think I would have done some more tests. A sledge hammer clearly need to be employed instead of the puny hammer they used as well as an oven and a frezer/dry ice/liquid nitrogen or something to that effect. Corosive chemicals or some happy power tools would have also sold me on the devices durability. Oh well. If you are interested in purchasing your own Corsaif Survivor to torture or merely use you can get them from NewEgg with the 4GB model going for $60 and the 8GB drive selling for $150. |
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Less then a day after the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minnesota, MSNBC posted a list of of “deficient” or “obsolete” bridges. As I mentioned in my BodyGard 5-In-1 Emergency Tool post, going over bridges makes me nervous anyway. Seeing a bridge actually collapse with traffic on it isn’t going to help. Take a look at the list and |
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Will It Blend is a marketing campaign by Blendtdc, a manufacturer of blenders, which features thirty second to two minute videos of various objects being blended by their entry level home blender. A wide variety of non-standard items are blended including six lighters, golf balls and an iPhone. The iPhones remains are presently available on eBay with a new blender. The videos are well done and fun to watch because lets face it, what guy doesn’t like watching everyday items being chewed up by a powerful blender? Especially when happy music, smoke and an occasional explosion are involved. |
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Pictured to the left is the R.M. Johnson E-Z Crusher which has a twenty foot mouth for flattening cars, trucks and buses with its fifty tons of crushing power. This image and a short and woefully soundless video are included in a Popular Mechanics article entitled “Where Your Car Goes to Die.” According to the article, automobiles are the most recycled consumer product in the world with 95% of all vehicles are reclaimed though as much as 25% of each car still ends up in the landfill. |
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Some folks just aren’t morning people and have lots of trouble getting out of bed in the morning. Still, using electricity seems to be a bit extreme but that’s the method employed by the Shocking Alarm Clock. In order to quiet this old-school looking clock, you have to receive a jolt of energy. According to ThisNext user whizkiddo after a couple of days just the anticipation of the shock to turn the clock off is enough wake a person up. Online retailers also suggest that the clock is good for practical jokes, but given there is a guy getting fried and bolts of lightning right on the face of the clock, I am not so sure. Because of the electrical nature of the product, make sure that any user of this clock is over fourteen years of age and doesn’t have a pacemaker or any other medical condition that would make a sudden jolt A Bad Thing™. You can purchase the Shocking Alarm Clock directly from Shocking Fun for $13 or it can be had from X-TremeGeek.com $10. |
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This home owner was the only one that didn’t sell out to the developers. So, the developers decided to start the project anyway. The house is in Chongqing, central China. The home owner is rumored to have goverment connections. |
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The Self-Destructo Candle begins its life as a mood light illuminated by a cool blue 50 hour blue LED. If you keep replacing the battery (type unspecified) it will continue to operate indefinitely (or however long such a device normally lasts). When you have had enough of the LED, rather then just throwing it away, simply turn it over and cut the wick and viola! you have a candle that you can…umm…burn. Not sure what you gain from being able to “burn you candle from both ends” with one of the burns being pretty perminent, but you will have to pay $37 ($5 more if you want the candle gift boxed) plus shipping for the opportunity. |
