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Entertainment
Augmented Reality Goofiness Thanks To Avatar And Coke Zero
11:03PM Danny Allen | There’s just no escaping the Avatar marketing machine. Special bottle-shaped Coke Zero cans will soon hit the streets, and when held up to your Webcam, they’ll make a controllable helicopter appear on screen. Take a look. More »
Design
2:40AM Adam Frucci | This concept Coke can design uses a manufacturing process called impact extrusion to form geometric shapes into the can rather than making it round. I’m not sure how practical it is, but I like it. [The Dieline via PSFK]
Redesigned Coke Can Won’t Roll Off The Table
2:40AM Adam Frucci | This concept Coke can design uses a manufacturing process called impact extrusion to form geometric shapes into the can rather than making it round. I’m not sure how practical it is, but I like it. [The Dieline via PSFK]
Gadgets
Coca-Cola’s 100-Flavour Soda Fountain Of The Future
2:30AM Sean Fallon | Originally codenamed “Jet,” Coca Cola’s top secret flavour bomb now known as “FreeStyle” is poised to give adventurous palettes 100 different beverage options in a single machine. More »
Random Stuff
Exploding Mentos and Coke Parlor Trick
11:00AM Andi Wang | You’ve either seen the Mentos and Coke experiment on YouTube or you’ve destroyed your kitchen trying it yourself. Wired has come up with a parlor trick that’ll surprise your friends with a delayed explosion time: Mentos, frozen in ice cubes. More »
Entertainment
Funky Organ Is Full of Gremlins So Cute You’d Want to Adopt Them
2:00PM Jesus Diaz | Always count on Coca-Cola to create one of those summer ads that make you want go party in Costa Rica for three months. This time, thanks to a freaky organ with funky gremlins. [DRB] More »
Gadgets
Sapient’s Coke Machine Longs for Your Touch
11:00AM Andi Wang | Touch screens are everywhere now—on mobile phones, televisions, airport kiosks, MP3 players and cameras. It’s about time vending machines got in on the action, and that’s just what Sapient’s Coke machines are doing. More »
Entertainment
Turiba University Sets World Record With 1,911 Simultaneous Coke-Mentos Explosions
12:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Some people celebrate anniversaries with food, or a little dancing, but Business University Turiba in Latvia decided to have a little fun with a Gizmodo favorite: the ol’ Mento in the Coke reaction. For the school’s 15th anniversary, the students set out the break the previous world record for this category, which was held by 1,499 Belgian students in the town of Leuven. Last Thursday, they succeeded, and the contents of 1,911 bottles of Coke were sprayed violently upward, and into history. More »
Science
Science Team Explains Why Mentos + Coke = Whoosh!
12:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | You should, by now, be very familiar with the Mentos and Coke explosion effect. After all, we’ve even shown how to make your own booby trap version. But did you know that parts of the science behind it were a mystery? Until now, that is. A physics team at Appalachian State University did a whole range of tests, varying the substance dropped in from Fruit Mentos to dishwasher detergent and checking all the Coke types. Serious science stuff. More »
Entertainment
Blow Victims Away with Mentos and Coke Booby Trap
10:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | That sound you are hearing is thousands of people screaming after falling for this Mentos and Diet Coke booby trap. And the sound you will hear soon will be the screams of the people who did the traps, as the joke victims beat the crap out of them. [Instructables] More »
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