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We had our doubts about that Mountain Dew that glowed like a lightning bug when the guy in the video you see here added a bit of baking soda and peroxide. Sho' 'nuff, it turns out to be a hoax. The intrepid mythbusters at Snopes.com (in addition to many of our Giz readers) tried the trick and applied a bit of keen scientific expertise to the problem, and discovered it to be false. Sorry to get your hopes up. As for this video, well, the guy must be palming some glow stick goo and slipping it into the bottle, or it could be a simple edit or off-camera substitution. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. [Snopes]
Glowing Mountain Dew Trick is a Hoax
We had our doubts about that Mountain Dew that glowed like a lightning bug when the guy in the video you see here added a bit of baking soda and peroxide. Sho' 'nuff, it turns out to be a hoax. The intrepid mythbusters at Snopes.com (in addition to many of our Giz readers) tried the trick and applied a bit of keen scientific expertise to the problem, and discovered it to be false. Sorry to get your hopes up. As for this video, well, the guy must be palming some glow stick goo and slipping it into the bottle, or it could be a simple edit or off-camera substitution. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. [Snopes]
9:20 AM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Charlie White
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Latest by Scarred4lyfe: ok i just tried it and it didnt work but i used the contents of a glow stick with the more »
double blind
Last week, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi (pictured above left) offered the makers of Pear speaker cables $1 million if they could prove in double-blind testing there was a difference between their $7,250 cables and ordinary Monster Cables. Now, Adam Blake (pictured above right), CEO and co-founder of Pear Cable, has called Randi's offer "a fake" and a "joke". We've contacted James Randi, asking if he'd like to get together with these Pear dudes for some double-blind testing. We've also contacted Adam Blake, asking if Pear planned to participate in Randi's double-blind test. After the jump, see the full text of Pear Cable's accusations that Randi's million-dollar offer is a hoax. We'll keep you posted if anyone responds.
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Pear Cable CEO Calls James Randi's $1 Million Offer a Hoax
Last week, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi (pictured above left) offered the makers of Pear speaker cables $1 million if they could prove in double-blind testing there was a difference between their $7,250 cables and ordinary Monster Cables. Now, Adam Blake (pictured above right), CEO and co-founder of Pear Cable, has called Randi's offer "a fake" and a "joke". We've contacted James Randi, asking if he'd like to get together with these Pear dudes for some double-blind testing. We've also contacted Adam Blake, asking if Pear planned to participate in Randi's double-blind test. After the jump, see the full text of Pear Cable's accusations that Randi's million-dollar offer is a hoax. We'll keep you posted if anyone responds.
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To our innocent eyes, the video of Russia's "Father of All Bombs" looked pretty impressively explosive, but US big-boom experts are now questioning Russia's hoax-y claims about the weapon's size and power. For one, it might not even be a shockwave-generating thermobaric bomb—one expert says it actually looks like a fuel-air bomb, which is just a smaller explosive device strapped to lots of fuel—not exactly a marvel of Russian military science. More »
Russia's "Father of All Bombs" Not Quite That Manly
To our innocent eyes, the video of Russia's "Father of All Bombs" looked pretty impressively explosive, but US big-boom experts are now questioning Russia's hoax-y claims about the weapon's size and power. For one, it might not even be a shockwave-generating thermobaric bomb—one expert says it actually looks like a fuel-air bomb, which is just a smaller explosive device strapped to lots of fuel—not exactly a marvel of Russian military science. More »
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Jack Bauer vs. Boston's ATHF Scare
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Promotional Gadgets Grip Boston in Fear and Loathing
Gadgets practically turned the entire city of Boston upside down yesterday. Fourteen of these horrifying and obviously dangerous devices were found throughout the city, and it turns out they were light boards depicting a "Mooninite," an outer space delinquent who shows up on the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. More »
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Fortune Ball: Elaborate Way to Part Fools and Their Money
Enter the exact time of your birth into the Fortune Ball, and it goes through its colorful permutations, using "computers" to tell your "fortune." This would be great for those occasions when a coin-flip just doesn't seem to be elaborate enough. More »
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ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer: Be Afraid
For those living in fear of unseen forces all around them, here's the ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer, an electromagnetic frequency (EMF)-blocking blower that will keep those villainous magnetic fields away from your
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Dear World: Laser Pen is Kind of Real, Don't Send it to Us
Every so often we get an email containing some exciting hyperbole about some kind of laser keyboard computer pen with a smiling Asian man winking at us mysteriously. This product does exist in a very nascent form and does not work. It is a promising technology, not ready for prime time, and I foresee foldable LCDs and epaper taking over for this technology. Please refrain from sending these along or Intern Travis will be sent to noogie you.
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