Forced human test dummies on rickety old rides? Shooting ranges to blast the imperialist Americans? Roller coaster harnesses that don’t really harness anything? Welcome to the last amusement park in all of North Korea. More »
Basketball practices are pretty standard: shooting drills, defensive slides, three-man weave, suicides, 17s, rebounding, running plays, etc. Not for the French though, those weirdos are using an amusement park ride/giant robot to twirl them in the air to catch passes. More »
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As if ice cream doesn’t practically sell itself anyway, a Japanese theme park decided to hire a cute robot named Yaskawa-kun to hawk the delicious treat. I think you’ll understand their choice after you see a video of him at work. More »
OK, Dubai. Your largest building gets shut down for “electrical problems”. Your 7.5 million litre shark tank sprang a leak. So what do you do to bounce back? Build the fastest roller coaster ever. This is terrifying. More »
I love me some good old fashioned misadventure with jet engines. Brooklyn-based arts collective, The Madagascar Institute, had tested their jet-powered merry-go-round before…but never with people. Thankfully, Popular Mechanics’ Seth Porges stepped up to the plate: More »
