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Can You Really 3D-Print A Snowboard? Kind Of

Using traditional fabrication techniques, the folks at Signal Snowboards have made decks from all kinds of crazy materials, including glass. But, this month, they’re trying out a radically different fabrication technique to see if you really can make a usable snowboard with a 3D printer.


Storage Silo Converted Into Ice Climbing Wall

This converted silo in Cedar Falls, Iowa and the cold, winter, slushy snow… all of it will make complete sense. The world gets cold so that people can create an epic ice climbing wall.


Monster Machines: Snow Trains Fight Old Man Winter With Jet Engines

Even as parts of the US and Canada digs out after the snowstorm brought on by nor’easter Nemo, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority isn’t worried about maintaining service along its northern New Haven Line. That’s thanks to a fleet of turbine-powered, slush-slinging, jet trains.


Australian Snowboard With Brakes Helps Beginners Learn To Carve

Strapping your feet to a board and then sliding down a snow-covered hill requires skills that most humans aren’t born with. So, to make it just a little easier for novices to learn how to snowboard, Australia’s Streetboardz has created a board with a built-in handbrake that lets riders easily stop before things get out of control.


The Beautiful Result Of Projecting A Movie Onto A Blizzard

Over the weekend, New York-based redditor Brian Maffitt aimed a projector — playing The Lorax — at the blizzard which struck the east coast and photographed the result. The images are a beautiful and psychedelic take on the pure-white flakes that fell.


Here Comes The Snowpocalypse From Space

The US state of Minnesota gets these just about every other day during winter, but this picture from from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite will make even them run away screaming and looting supermarkets.


Automatic 3D Snowflake Camera: Find Out For Yourself If No Two Are Alike

A few weeks ago we challenged you to decipher a black and white image full of seemingly random white blobs. They turned out to be clumps of snowflakes photographed as they fell to the ground, and the amazing camera that captured those images can now be yours — if you have deep enough pockets.


What Are These?

These objects seems to vary from shapeless blob to chaotic scribble — but they are in fact short-lived structures that have been captured in fine 3D detail for the first time. Can you work out what they are?


10 Awesome Ways To Wipe That Smug Smile Off A Snowman’s Face

Frosty the Snowman thinks he’s the king of winter with that dapper top hat and hipster corncob pipe. But if like us you’re getting tired of his whole ‘snowier than thou’ attitude, here are 10 fantastic ways to take him down a notch — captured in gloriously hypnotising slow motion.


Watch This Army Of 21 Snow Plows Team Up To Clear A Canadian Highway

You’d imagine that it would take quite a few plows to clear a snow-covered highway, but not quite this many. Keep count as they go through and you’ll see a whole 21 plows in formation (and a couple of sand trucks) painstaking passing piles of grey road-sludge to the right and to the right again and to the right again on this highway in Toronto.


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