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Science Team Explains Why Mentos + Coke = Whoosh!
You should, by now, be very familiar with the Mentos and Coke explosion effect. After all, we've even shown how to make your own booby trap version. But did you know that parts of the science behind it were a mystery? Until now, that is. A physics team at Appalachian State University did a whole range of tests, varying the substance dropped in from Fruit Mentos to dishwasher detergent and checking all the Coke types. Serious science stuff. More »
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Bubble-Blowing Dish-Scrubber Taunts ADHD Sufferers
Time to focus, lots of dirty dishes to clean. Oooh look, a bubble! Wow, I can blow more bubbles? Yay! Bubble bubble bubble, bubble bubble bubble. I'm tired of blowing bubbles, let's do Jumping Jacks! Yay! Jumping Jacks stink, let's eat candy 'til we puke! Yay! So sick, so many dirty dishes, the best $5 I ever spent. Firetruck! [Bubble Scrubber via Boing Boing]
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Psychedelic iTube Speaker With Built-In Viagra Mode Gives You a Bigger Dock
Hokay: the iTube looks like it is the 21st-century version of the Lava Lamp. A 30-inch-tall iPod speaker with 360ยบ speakers and special effects that react to your tunes, the iTube connects up to either an MP3 player or your stereo, and you can control the psychedelic levels of its LED lights and bubble blower via remote control. Video and more info below. More »
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Underwater Express Submarine Utilizes Bubbles for Speed
Over wonder why the Red October was so damn slow? It is obvious, water is heavy and it takes a lot to plow through it (compared to air, at least). The Pentagon has developed the Underwater Express, a submarine capable of going 127 mph (compared to modern sub speeds of 29 mph, by encasing the entire sub in a bubble. Bubbles can move through the water quicker and therefore cause no drag on the actual submarine. Now if only we could get in a war with a country with a large body of water. Iraq is just too dry. More »
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Zubbles: Technicolor Bubbles
Popular Science has a wonderful feature about colored bubbles. The inventor, Tim Kehoe, spent 11 years figuring out a way to make bubbles with color that disappeared after the pop.
And then the bubbles broke on the kids, on the parents, on cars, on Haddleton's prized German Shepherds. It looked like there had been a paint fight. Kehoe had told the parents that the color would wash out, but it didn't matter. Not when their children were covered head to toe in blue and pink splotches, when the color was getting into their shoes and hair and soaking into the concrete. In the faces of the horrified mothers, Kehoe immediately grasped the lesson. "You can't go to market with something that leaves that much color, even if it is washable," he says. "It freaks people out."More »
