Dangerous

Giant Phallic Inflatable Bungee Ride is the Most Fun Way to Break Your Neck Ever

If you're ever driving and you see a county fair with what appears to be three towering penises with clown makeup on them, pull over. You've just found the holy grail of dangerous rides. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Adam Frucci
5,160 views, 27 comments

Latest by Bos'un's Mate: @Toshie: Ha! more »

hillbilly hottub

Instant Hot Tub? Just Add Water and Quicklime

This is how you make a hot tub, hillbilly style. Three guys from the prairies of Illinois turned an old stock tank sitting in the open air into a jacuzzi, and heated it up using quicklime, that scary caustic stuff that burns your skin off if you're not too careful. A video of how they did it, using gas masks, tin baths and a lot of ingenuity, is after the jump. More »

9:40 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By AddyDugdale
10,060 views, 44 comments

retromodo

Robot Shopping Cart Cruises Streets, Bursts into Flames

Why the hell is a dismembered pair of legs walking around willy nilly with a shopping cart? I'll tell you why...To draw awareness to homeless people, and the cutthroat world of cart-pushing. It was designed in 1993 by a college student who thought the concept of using robots for hazardous jobs could be applied to the most dangerous job of all, being homeless. The student rigged the cart together using a bunch of bike chains and a couple car batteries. We're not sure it serves any practical purpose—might be better if there were hands to put things in the cart. One thing the artist definitely got wrong though: homeless people do not spontaneously burst into flames. At least not in New York, they don't. [GizmoGarden via Make]

9:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Benny Goldman
3,672 views, 31 comments

Latest by Earthslide: Suicide bombers on strike now? more »

dangerous

69 Year Old Attempts Record Hawaii to Japan Trip in Wave Powered Boat

Ken-ichi Horie, a 69 year old Japanese sailor, is planning a solo 4,350 mile trip from Hawaii to Japan using the most advanced wave powered boat on the planet. If successful, the trip would earn him a Guinness record while simultaneously proving the viability of wave powered propulsion. His boat, the Suntory Mermaid II, turns wave energy into thrust using two fins mounted beneath the bow. These fins move up and down with the waves and use them to generate "kicks" that propel the boat forward. More »

8:50 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Sean Fallon
10,134 views, 23 comments

Latest by CaliforniaKid: It's a bit ironic. He gets into a book named Guinness on a boat sponsored by Suntory, a sake company. more »

deathwish toys

Flybar Does its Part to Support the Darwin Effect

As if a pogo stick wasn't already an accident waiting to happen, now here comes the Flybar, catapulting you four feet (and maybe even six if you push it) off the ground with its heavy-duty rubber bands. To give you an idea of how dangerous this is, notice all of the users are wearing helmets. Another indication: One of its designers/endorsers, Andy MacDonald, is a pro skateboarder who probably thinks nothing of balancing atop a metal banister as he slides down its length that runs alongside a long flight of concrete stairs. If you have an extra $300 lying around, along with some really good health insurance to cover all those broken bones you're sure to soon acquire, this Flybar might just be for you. [BoysStuff, via UberGizmo]

3:40 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Charlie White
4,657 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: dangerous? if you want to do something dangerous why don't you try freeriding. anyone can jump around a a stick. going down mountains at 50mph and then flying off jumps 30ft off the ground is what i call dangerous...and fun more »

clips

The Most Dangerous Projects at Maker Faire

You may have seen our gallery from Maker Faire, but here's something new. It's a compilation of the most dangerous projects we saw there. And even if you're not a fan of mutilation, you should like the soundtrack. More »

10:00 PM on Wed May 23 2007
By Jason Chen
18,696 views, 3 comments

home entertainment

WurlyBird: Bad Parenting at High Speeds

If your idea of good parenting is installing a dangerous device in your living room to spin your spawn all over the place at high speeds, good news: I have just such a device for you. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By Adam Frucci
3,957 views, 18 comments

gadgets

Ten Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

The most dangerous toy our parents gave us when we were kids was a potato. That, perhaps, explains our current obsession with shiny objects. In the spirit of reminiscing, Radar Mag has a roundup of the ten most dangerous toys in the last half century. These honestly don't stand up in comparison with the depression-era "Razor Flying Disc"—which was just one giant razor—or "Little Johnny's Smallpox Infection, Diagnosis, and Treatment Kit" that was so popular at the turn of the century. More »

9:10 PM on Wed Dec 13 2006
By Jason Chen
3,026 views, 39 comments

Latest by bigTrue: Bender, Actually it means your friend was an idiot, and unfortunately, he tried to hurt you instead of himself. Glad to hear he didn't succeed. I hope you castrated him immediately so he never had children. They would obviously be more »

home entertainment

Bulletproof Packaging Punishes Consumers

We're fed up with impenetrable packaging. We've all experienced those oyster-like packing materials, where even the sharpest knife in the drawer won't put a dent in them. Then you get out the industrial-strength pruning shears, make a few cuts, and the result? Shards of plastic that are sharper than a scalpel. The folks at Wired have put together a diatribe about the status of consumer electronics packaging today, and it's a satisfying read:

From Psyclone electronics cables encased in impenetrable layers of thick plastic to DigiPower camera batteries coated with packaging several times the size of the item itself, the hardest part of buying electronics these days is opening the products when you get them home. In many cases, it makes solving Halo 2 seem like a kindergarten project.

In honor of this packaging nightmare, Consumer Reports has created the annual Oyster Awards, shaming the creators of the hardest-to-open packages. It's no wonder hospital emergency rooms report significant increases in deep lacerations from product packaging during the week after Christmas. Sure, product manufactures want to make it so that products are hard to shoplift, but this is getting ridiculous. Commenters, any packaging horror stories? – Charlie White More »

10:50 AM on Fri May 26 2006
By Charlie White
283 views, 24 comments

Latest by velocityresolution: my brother rupert lost all of his arms to packaging more »

gadgets

Dangerous Jewelry by Tobias Wong

Still got your Malibu?
Aw, man. You know what some fucker did the other day?
What?
Fucking scratched it up with a diamond ring by designer Tobias Wong.
Oh, man, that's fucked up.
Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some dickless piece of shit fucked with it.
They should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution. More »

11:12 AM on Tue Mar 21 2006
By johnb
1,803 views, 12 comments

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