Gizmodo: blendtec

When Memes Collide: A Will It Blend Teardown

John Herrman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:44:05 EDT

So what happens when two marketing execs from the undisputed leaders in elaborate, roundabout publicity stunts get shitfaced, together, the night before ad pitches are due? Nobody knows for sure, but I bet it would look something like this.

Yes, people, this is the iFixit teardown of a Blendtec Total blender—the one from those Will It Blend? videos that we basically stopped writing about sometime in early 2007. It's nice to see you again, Tom.

The innards on display here are decidedly cruder than the carefully-designed gadget guts typical to these kinds of teardowns, which makes sense: this isn't a pocket-sized piece of painstaking industrial design, this is a commercial grade blender. It transcends gadgetry by powderizing it, or something!

And even though the blender is clearly unplugged and, er, disarmed, the whole thing feels like a higher-stakes affair than usual. Maybe it's the 1500W+ motor, or the 28,000 RPM rotor, or, you know, the blades. [iFixit]

Today at Giz Gallery: Live Gadget Blending at 3PM

Brian Lam — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:22:46 EST

It's Saturday. The hung over day after our Giz Gallery reader meetup, which went on late into the night with some Pizza and Xbox on the 103 inch TV with Giz Alum Benny Goldman doing his best Biggie Smalls karaoke. (Uh, if anyone got photos of any of last night's debauchery, could you email them to me? I forgot to take photos.) Chris and I are just finishing sweeping the floors and we're ready to have more guests look at our wonderful and weird collection of gadgets. It's all to help buy Toys for Tots. If you're in NYC, you have to come down. If not to see the big TV and say hello, then at least to see our special events that are happening today and today only.

Watch Matt and Adam face all comers in our Deathmatch for Charity happening at 1PM until they give up, and at 3PM, we'll do a live Will it Blend demo using our computer controlled Blendtec blender. While they haven't sanctioned this public showing of their fantastic shredder at work, I think if you bring some gadgets to destroy, I'll consider it.

Watch the proceedings—during daytime hours—on the live Justin.tv feed:

[Thanks to REED ANNEX and thanks to our benefactor gizmine.com]

Gizmodo Gallery

Reed Annex

151 Orchard Street

New York, NY 10002

Gallery Dates:

December 4th-7th

Times:

12/4 Thursday

12-8

12/5 Friday

12-8

12/6 Saturday

11-8

12/7 Sunday

11-4

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At Gizmodo Gallery: A Live "Will It Blend?" Demo

Brian Lam — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:49:54 EST

The Gizmodo Gallery, which starts this week in NYC, is going to have voodoo. See, Blendtec, the guys responsible for those catchy videos of gadgets being destroyed aren't just giving us one to give away as a door prize, but they're setting us up with a demo model we can use to pulp our own gadgets with.

We'll have lab coats and goggles, but also whipped cream and berries. And I think we'll sacrifice a gadget or two come this Saturday to the gods of user interface design or battery life because clearly, asking companies to improve such things have by and large gone unanswered. We may do even more than a few if you've got some particularly interesting and hated ones you want to puree, but no promises!

[Read more about our Gizmodo Gallery here and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.]

[Thanks to REED ANNEX and thanks to our benefactor gizmine.com]

Gizmodo Gallery
Reed Annex
151 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

Gizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup
The reader meetup takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called The Annex (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery is hosted.) The address is 152 Orchard Street and we'll be there at 9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th.

Gallery Dates:
December 4th-7th

Times:
12/4 Thursday
12-8

12/5 Friday
12-8

12/6 Saturday
11-8

12/7 Sunday
11-4

DJ Rips-off Will it Blend, Ruins a Wiimote in the Process

Travis Hudson — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:00:05 EST

I like to consider Will it Blend? the lifeforce of the Internet. So it is a damn shame when some lame-ass disc jockeys try to rip off the idea and blend a Wiimote in the famous BlendTec Blender. Seriously, how many listeners did you lose that day when you blended something over the air? The Wiimote blended, kind of. Oh, just watch the video. Thanks, John – Travis Hudson

Will it Blend? iPod Edition

Travis Hudson — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:45:20 EST

Will it blend? is becoming my new favorite thing on the internet, second to Stuff on my Cat, of course.The crazy Blendtec guy decided to blend his old and outdated 4G iPod with hopes of receiving a new one for Christmas. He will also be putting the blended iPod on eBay, starting tomorrow. Good luck with that, homie. – Travis Hudson

Will it Blend? [Via Engadget]

Will It Blend? Crazy Old Man Blends Everything in Powerful Blender

Gizloco — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:42:53 EST

You know those late night infomercials where they cut a pair of shoes in half for no real reason? This is kinda like that, but just about a billion times cooler (estimating, of course). Blendtec is hawking a blender that they claim can blend pretty much anything under the sun like, "40 pens!" Their Web site has a whole bunch of "Will It Blend?" videos of wacky things being blended, so if you've got a few minutes to kill (because you're without a PS3) and want to laugh at complete and utter nonsense, have at it. – Nicholas Deleon

Thanks, Richard!

Will It Blend? [Blendtec]