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MythBusters Get Disgusting To Protect You From Swine Flu
9:59AM Wilson Rothman | 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]
Science
Giz Explains: How Electrocution Really Kills You
4:40AM Matt Buchanan | Humans are fragile. Our bodies are easily mutilated by our own creations: Crushed, mulched, zipped. But physical force is weak and inefficient compared to good old electrocution, which, according to MythBusters’ Adam Savage, doesn’t kill you the way you think it does. More »
Vehicles
Weaponisers: Remote-Controlled Argmoured Cars Fiht Each Other To the Death
10:00AM Wilson Rothman | Discovery Channel’s new Weaponisers mini-series sounds pretty insane: Dudes armour-plate cars, mount them with machine guns and rockets, then hide in bunkers, operating them by remote control in an ultimate to-the-death Carmageddon. Oh my. More »
Entertainment
Rocket Sled Attempts to Pancake a Car, Fails Gloriously
10:57PM Mark Wilson | In what must be the most incendiary Mythbusters test to date, the show’s crew tried to flatten a car…using a 1,125kph, two-stage rocket sled. More »
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MythBusters Flip Bus, Plow Into Fruit Stand For Benefit of Mankind
10:40AM Wilson Rothman | 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. More »
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Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
7:20AM Sean Fallon | The Mythbusters’ passion for explosions got a little out of hand earlier this week when they detonated 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate a mile outside of Esparto, California. Perhaps two miles would have been better. More »
Gadgets
Adam Savage From Mythbusters Makes Maltese Falcon Replicas in His Spare Time
3:37PM Brian Lam | 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. More »
Robots
Mythbusters Build a Robot Shark To
2:12PM Nick Broughall | The best thing about Mythbusters, in my humble opinion, isn’t the explosions. It isn’t the rockets. It isn’t even Jamie Hyneman’s wicked mo (although all three of those things rock). No, it’s the cool stuff they build, like this robot shark they built to test whether sticking your fingers in a shark’s eyes will save you from becoming fish food. More »
Mythbusters Build a Robot Shark To Rule The Sea Test Shark Myths
2:12PM Nick Broughall | The best thing about Mythbusters, in my humble opinion, isn’t the explosions. It isn’t the rockets. It isn’t even Jamie Hyneman’s wicked mo (although all three of those things rock). No, it’s the cool stuff they build, like this robot shark they built to test whether sticking your fingers in a shark’s eyes will save you from becoming fish food. More »
Entertainment
Credit Card Companies Bully Discovery, Mythbusters Into Axing Segment on RFID Vulnerabilities
6:00AM Sean Fallon | Speaking to an audience at the recent HOPE hackercon event, Mythbusters’ Adam Savage describes a harrowing conference call in which most, if not all of the big name credit card companies bullied the Discovery Channel into axing a show involving RFID vulnerabilities. Adam noted that he got chills just thinking about it and claims that Tory still gets “white” when describing the conversation. I suppose anyone would feel a little intimidated (and probably pee their pants a little) when faced by the combined legal power of some of the most powerful businesses in the world. [Wired via Boing Boing] More »
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