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Can You Find The Perfectly-Camouflaged Snow Leopard Hidden On This Mountainside?
Can you find the snow leopard sneaking up on its prey in this amazing photo by wildlife photographer Inger Vandyke? (Note: This is not a troll. The leopard is really there.) There’s a good reason it’s so difficult for photographers and film crews to capture the elusive snow leopard in the wild. The animal is…
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Here’s Some Slo-Mo Footage Of Fireworks Blowing Up A BBQ
It’s the fourth of July in the U.S and director David Ma has combined all the requisite traditions into a slo-mo extravaganza of patriotic destruction.
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Firing This Saw Blade-Launching Handheld Catapult Looks More Terrifying Than Getting Hit By It
Video: Joerg Sprave has finally built an elastic-powered weapon that even the burly slingshot master can barely handle when the trigger’s pulled. It’s a handheld trebuchet (a type of catapult) that flings circular saw blades dozens of metres, and it looks almost as terrifying to yield as it is to be in the weapon’s crosshairs.
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This Paper Shredder Upgraded With A Scary-Powerful Motor Looks Like It Could Rip Off An Arm
Video: Destroying sensitive documents using a paper shredder is a long and boring process because most of the machines are woefully underpowered. Destruction is supposed to be fun, so a gifted Danish hardware hacker upgraded a run-of-the-mill shredder with a 44,400-RPM brushless motor, letting the machine tear through a page in less than a second.