Gizmodo: will+it+blend

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]

9 Nauseating "Will It Blend" Food Recipes

Sean Fallon — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EDT

The folks at Will It Blend were kind enough to contribute some of their favorite food-related videos for our Taste Test this week. However, these are the kind of recipes you will probably taste going down and coming up.

Spam and Eggs:

Carny Cuisine:

The Superbowl Smoothie:

Pickled Pigs Feet:

The Workout Smoothie:

Christmas Dinner:

Oysters In The Shell:

Tilapia-O-Matic:

Cochicken:

[Image via Threadless]

Taste Test is our weeklong tribute to the leaps that occur when technology meets cuisine, spanning everything from the historic breakthroughs that made food tastier and safer to the Earl-Grey-friendly replicators we impatiently await in the future.

Olympus Discovers Will It Blend, Uses It to Sell Cameras

Adam Frucci — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:50:00 EDT

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Have you guys heard of this "Will It Blend?" thing? Apparently it's all the rage on the internet! That's why the cutting-edge minds at Olympus jumped on this new fad to make a viral video of their own.

To be fair, it's a clever appropriation of the Will It Blend meme, and it does deliver a whole lot of blending, but it just feels like they may have missed the boat on this being timely by a good year or so.

And yes, we'll still ban you for making a "But will it blend?" comment, even on this post. You've been warned. [Gadget Lab]

Blenders Used For Art, Not Science

Wilson Rothman — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 EDT

The opening question in any serious empirical research is "Will it blend?" But here's a German artist who felt that her art should begin with a slightly different question: "How will it blend?"

In her series Nicht Klotzen, Sondern Kleckern Sarah Illenberger assembled a collection of slick European blenders, hand mixers and stick blenders and put each one to use as a brush in a different painting. I'm no art critic, but I'm gonna say the hand mixers were the most aesthetically pleasing, while the big tabletop Bosch was pretty much a bust. The real question is, what gear should Illenberger use to paint with next? [Today and Tomorrow]

"Will It Blend?" iPhone App: The Christmas Present Nobody Wanted

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:30:00 EST

YouTube superstar Tom Dickson gained massive fame when he turned an iPhone into dust, mocking all of us who don't have one. Now, he brings his videos to the App Store, with a twist!

The app, surprisingly called "Will It Blend?", contains 20 of the most popular blending videos, including the iPhone (so meta!), glowsticks, marbles, and Chuck Norris. But here's the twist: the videos are in stellar quality, filmed with a RED camera, which should let you see the resulting dust more clearly than ever before. It's available for only $0.99 until the end of the year, so, um, I guess I should tell you to jump on this quick before the price doubles. You can download it here (link opens iTunes). [TUAW]

Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender

Elaine Chow — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:30:00 EST

Will lighters blend? Yes, they will. And the explosive results, filmed in slo-mo, have finally warmed me up to this otherwise inscrutable internet meme. Good thing we didn't try this at the Giz Gallery! [Kotaro269]

FYI: Blending a Charged iPhone Causes Explosions

Adam Frucci — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:40:00 EST

On Saturday at the Gizmodo Gallery, we blended a fully-functioning iPhone with a Blendtec, sacrificing it to the gods of copy and paste. What we learned was that if you blend an iPhone with its battery inside, it explodes. Whoops!

Yeah, so we probably should have taken the battery out, but we wanted to show that it worked when we blended it (the iPhone was Blam's first generation model). Of course, I was the idiot chosen to do the blending, but luckily I was wearing a lab coat, which caught most of the battery acid milkshake. The same can't be said for Brian, who caught a lot of it on the face, but luckily none in his eyes.

So yeah, we stopped the blending session after that, because it scared the everloving crap out of me. It's better to leave these sorts of things to the professionals, it turns out.

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]

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Gallery Dates:

December 4th-7th

Times:

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12/5 Friday

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12/6 Saturday

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12/7 Sunday

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

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

Yes, We Are Painfully Aware That Your Blenders Will Easily Pulp an iPhone 3G To Bits Thank You Very Much For Asking Again

Brian Lam — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:02:00 EDT

The original iPhone with its metal back couldn't survive the Blender's assault, so what chance does this iPhone 3G's plastic spine have? Zero. Then again, has anything ever failed to blend properly? I'd say these guys need a new shtick but we keep linking and you keep clicking so I guess I'm not actually as apathetic about the whole stunt as I feel at the moment..*watching*..Ok, that's still cool.

Will The Wiimote Blend? (SPOILER ALERT: Yes.)

Mark Wilson — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:25:00 EDT

We're almost afraid to post this "Will It Blend" Wiimote edition video, as it's sure to reignite the wildfire of giggling commenters who scan every post to be the first to drop that trademark line. Maybe, due to the comment publishing lag, we'll even see two Will It Blends in a row, the ultimate Will It Blend faux pas. Three is not unheard of, but as we all know, whenever three douchebag comments hit at once we risk a black hole opening after the jump and sucking any scant intelligence not already lost to whippets and cellphone tumors.

In other words, enjoy. And some of you may want to avoid the comments until...ehh...July is probably safe. Actually, you'd better make it August. OK, September. 2009. [via Kotaku]

Blender With Built-In Tachometer: How Fast Does It Blend?

matt buchanan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:20:25 EST

We present the latest evolution in "Will It Blend?" technology: A 900-watt, 20,000-RPM blender with a built-in tachometer. Although I've been quite happy with my run-of-the-mill Cuisinart, I have slight gadget lust for the brushed steel-y, $134 L'Equip RPM blender and a pulsing desire to see how many RPMs it takes to liquefy my new GH controller. It's 2008's version of "How Many Licks?" [Tabletools.com via BBG]

Blending Guitar Hero (Tom Goes Nuts)

Haroon Malik — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:30:00 EST

We know how much you love the Will it blend? series, so here is the latest installment. This edition sees our crazy buddy get a Guitar Hero controller into the blender, but not before going completely ape shit at the device, prepping it for the proper blending treatment. Well, we know the question that is currently residing on your lips, we also know some douche will ask it regardless of the video evidence, but what the hell, jump to get your blendtastic game on.

There you have it; the Guitar Hero guitar controller does blend. Who knew? We thought we would be sick of these clips by now, but we have been proven wrong. Blending inanimate objects for no reason still completely rocks. We are slightly worried by ol' Dickson's manic look of insanity—his eyes seem to glaze over with a glass lifelessness that we have only ever seen in Russian dolls, but it adds to the humor. You go get 'em, Tom, you crazy cat. [Will It Blend?, Thanks, Adam. A.]

iPhone vs. Blender Ends in Grisly Tangle of Metal and Plastic

Charlie White — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:38:58 EDT

It seems like just yesterday we showed you the Transformers meeting their maker in the Blendtec blender, and now it's the iPhone's turn. Behold, fanboys and haters alike: The iPhone is not immortal. Just don't breathe its dust when it's all over. [Blendtec YouTube Channel]

Will It Return? Blended Camcorder, Completely Destroyed, Taken to Best Buy for Refund

Charlie White — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:50:00 EDT

What happens if you take a camcorder and completely destroy it in a blender, then try to return its blended-up remains to Best Buy? Well, there is a 14-day return policy, isn't there? In a spinoff of its "Will It Blend?" series that promotes Blendtec blenders, one of the show's brave souls attempted just that. Would Best Buy, just about to be stung by its notorious peeping geek incident, relent?

"I tripped, and it fell into a blender."
"Did you get the, uh, accidental plan on it?"
"No."

Beautifully edited! – Charlie White

Will It Return? [Blendtec] (Thanks, Dan!)

Boeing 747 Makes Mincemeat Out of a Couple of Cars

Charlie White — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:31:19 EDT

Next time you decide to take a little joyride behind a Boeing 747 with its engines at full throttle cranking out 58,000 lb. of thrust each, think of this video from the Brit car series Top Gear. Forget how small electronics fare in a blender. We want to see how large machinery stands up to a 747!

Those Top Gear guys are always good for a laugh and a thrill, and we especially like Richard Hammond's mild oaths such as "blimey!" and "crikey!" – Charlie White

What happens if you drive behind a 747? [Spluch]

Will It Blend? Wild Ride Aboard a Running Camcorder to the Depths of Hell

Charlie White — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:40:00 EDT

Here's one of the best "Will It Blend" episodes yet, where you get a point-of-view shot from a DV camcorder as it meets its untimely demise. Jeez, this is horrifying. I think this might void the warranty, don't you? – Charlie White

Blendtec Site [YouTube]

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]