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Mythbusters‘ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman recently sat down for a chat with Wired‘s Kevin Kelly, and they discussed just how much trust you can place in machines. It’s tough to disagree if you’ve seen the evidence. [FORA.tv]
Giz friend Adam Savage, in our estimation, can make just about anything. Here he explains the path he took to turn a toy gun into an astoundingly sharp Blade Runner pistol replica. More »
If you’re MythBusters Adam Savage, you don’t store your tools in just any toolbox. No, sir. You store them in a Savage Toolbox. Duh. [Braincraft] More »
We love high-speed photography, but seeing Adam Savage blow a juicy sneeze in super slow-mo is enough to make us smash our EX-F1s. Still, it’s for a noble cause: Awareness and avoidance of H1N1, aka Swine Flu. [Discovery]
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We asked the MythBusters for teasers of the new season, starting tomorrow at 9pm and running every Wednesday on the Discovery Channel. What we got doesn’t disappoint: Hair-raising bus wreck above, Hollywood-style fruit-stand crash below.
I met Adam Savage at the EG conference last year, and watching him give this talk, it became clear the man is obsessed with replicating things 3D things from 2D imagery.
