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more about #destruction more comments → bustedchain: Yeah this could have turned out truly horrific. It is horrible that this persons house is damaged horribly, but I think the crane company's insurance... more » UnderLoK: How could this get any worse you ask? They found out while dealing with a car accident that the wife just got into... more » Odin: I love picture 3. "Guys! The crane fell over!" "Damn, how are we gonna fix this?" "Another crane?" "Genius!" Although I feel bad for wishing sufferi... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: And thankfully no one was injured or killed. Looks like someone needs to go back to Crane Operator School though... #crane more » tande04: Eh, could have been worse... #crane more » sprice82: xD this was by my house and work, its funny cause the neighbors are all like meh #crane more » yogibimbi: so, water is wet. What else is new? more » No_So_Secret_Landfill: I suggest they stick it where the sun don't shine. more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Far more interesting than blowing up bridges is this little toy someone built... [wrybread.com] more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: I feel like I've just watched the same bridges blow up over and over and over again... Until the black cat crossed my path twice and... Well, neverm... more » OMG! DEITY!: All forms of blowing is art. more » -1-: Personally, I would have told Amazon that my Kindle showed up like this :/ more » loriensleafs: why are people always dropping their electronics? I don't think I've ever dropped one of my devices. more » ceilingFANBOY: I just want to know why no one is saying anything about that flying horseshoe crab and euglenozoa going towards the building. more » strider_mt2k: It's China. What do you honestly expect? more » -
#imagecache
100,000-Pound Crane Smashes House in Half
This 100,000-pound crane was removing a tree when the tree broke loose, sending the crane's massive boom down onto the owner's house, smashing it like a Play-Doh sculpture. Check out the carnage in the gallery below. [SFGate] More » -
#cellphones
Nokia N97 Waterproof Experiment Tests Hypothesis That Nobody Ever Had
You know those videos where someone puts a rugged gadget through a battery of tests that would destroy regular hardware, but the device comes through the other side unharmed? This is not one of those videos. More » -
#falldowngoboom
Blowing Up Bridges Is High Art
At least, when you set it to opera music. Actually, even when you hit mute, the delicately synchronized way the bridges collapse as the charges fire is beautiful, like ballet. With explosions. [VDOT via BoingBoing] -
#oops
First Kindle 2 Destroyed, Showing Extended Warranty May Be Worth It
One area where dead trees will always beat out eBook readers is chuckability—apparently, the shiny new Kindle 2 doesn't take kindly to being launched into hardwood. Somewhere, Jon Stewart is chuckling. More » -
#cctvbuilding
Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
Lots of things are wigging me out about the burned up CCTV building. Are fireworks that dangerous? What will happen with all that debris? And WHY are they censoring news of it over here? More » -
#howto
How To Repair Your Plasma TV With a Baseball Bat (NSFW)
That rumor that Australian toilets flush the other way isn't true, so lets start a new one: In Australia, you can fix things by beating them. See you in my children, new trivia meme! More » -
#dogs
Nature Defeats Technology, Again
Master buys dog training software. Dog finds training software. Dog decides he needs no bloody training. Dog acts accordingly, destroys it, then goes after master and bites his or her ass. More » -
#destruction
Implosion Toy Set Lets You Practice Destroying the Apple Cube Store Over and Over
American Toy and Invention Co. is selling a kit that'll let you build, implode, and rebuild a multi-story structure that looks strangely enough like the 5th Avenue Apple flagship retail space. I'm sure it teaches about the physics of demolition, but hey! Stuff's blowing up! Stuff with iPods inside! More » -
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#gizmodogallery
At Gizmodo Gallery: A Live "Will It Blend?" Demo
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. -
#destruction
A Look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs
I've long suspected that the best job ever would be to work in product stress testing—because you basically get paid to break shit all day. Nokia sent over a bunch of info detailing how their test centers operate, leaving me fully convinced this would indeed be my dream gig. Not only do they run over 200 mechanical tests on these things, but where else could you play with a bunch of machines that bend, bake, humidify, spray, poke and drop phones? (And yeah, that phone in the picture above just got poked a million times...literally.)
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