Geek Out

Man Pierces His Back To Hook His Body Onto Hot Air Balloon

I’m totally cool with alternative piercings. Your life, your choices, whatever. But Zane Whitmore is testing my limit of accepting crazy: he pierced his back, attached the piercings to a hot air balloon and suspended his body in the air.


June 9, 2011
Science

Tongue Piercings Can Steer Wheelchairs

Researchers have tested a tongue piercing that’ll allow paralysed people to steer their wheelchairs in any direction. All they have to do is move their tongue a specific direction and the wheelchair will follow.