Drill

Mini V8 Engine Turns Normal Electric Drill Into Nitro-Thirsty Monster

Carpentry is just more satisfying with the roar of a V8 engine ringing in your ears.

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 18

Read a Sci-Fi Twist on Pinocchio With In the Lives of Puppets

Get an exclusive look at the first chapters from TJ Klune's cozy, queer, found-family sci-fi drama.

Books & Comics Linda Codega Jan 11

Clever Screwdriver Turns the Force of a Hammer Blow Into Extra Torque to Dislodge Stuck Screws

Once again, the hammer is the solution to yet another of life's problems.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 16

It’s Apparently Possible to Drill a Key Ring Hole Into Apple’s AirTags Without Messing Them Up

One of the first things that jumped out to me when I saw Apple’s long-awaited AirTags was their surface, which reminds me of a giant, polished M&M. Like real M&Ms, AirTags don’t have any holes, which means that you have to buy AirTag accessories to hook the device to your keys or hang it on…

Tech News Jody Serrano May 2

Jane Fonda Saved Her Best DC Fire Drill Friday for Last

WASHINGTON, DC—Fire Drill Fridays have been a fixture in Washington since mid-October when Jane Fonda began a weekly climate strike in the nation’s capital inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strike movement. On Friday, under gray skies and 50-degree weather that felt much colder with a blustery wind, she staged her last fire…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn Jan 10

Watch Different Colors of Paint Spin Like Crazy on a Drill in Slow Motion

It’s like a beautiful, colorful ballet. The Slow Mo Guys dipped a power drill in different colors of paint and then captured in spinning in glorious slow motion and to see all the colors whip around like string is pretty great. It’s like a Jackson Pollock painting in moving 3D. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 19

Powerful drill turns metal into molten metal as it drills

The Formdrill cuts through all kinds of metal with friction energy, which means that not only is a hole drilled out but a sort of thick metal ring is created around the hole too. ARVADEST writes, “the increased material thickness provides additional strength and mostly eliminates the need for inserted bushings or welded nuts.” SPLOID…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 30

The US and South Korea’s biggest live fire drill ever was pure madness

There are so many things going on in this year’s US and South Korea’s live fire exercise that it’s hard to remember what you’re seeing because each drill just keeps raising the ante over the previous one. All I know is that there were a ton of tanks, helicopters that filled the sky, planes that…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 28

This is the cutest (and possibly smallest) 3D printed drill in the world

Lance Abernethy, a maintenance engineer from Auckland, New Zealand, 3D printed a cordless drill that measures 0.67 inches (17mm) tall, 0.27 inches (7.5mm) wide, and 0.5 inches (13mm) long and holds a 0.02 inches (0.5mm) twist drill. Not happy with that, he is already working on a smaller version. Lance told 3Dprint.com: It took me…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Mar 19

Guy invents device to turn 4 revolvers into a machine gun using a drill

While our favorite crazy weapons inventor Joerg Sprave made this drill-powered machine gun using cap guns, he says that you can easily use any .22 revolver because the trigger resistance is the same. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jan 5

What Happens When You Use a Giant Construction Drill on a Car?

It’s quite simple really, the car gets completely destroyed, screwed and mangled in every which way possible. The TR-150 construction drill completely eats the car alive to the point where it can no longer drill it anymore, it has to smash and pulverize it. Using construction tools for destruction is a beautiful thing. [BayShoreSystems via…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 7

This Slow Motion Metal Drilling Video Is So Damn Satisfying

I love slow motion videos in general, but there’s something extra-satisfying about this one: a fixed Japanese OSG Mega Muscle Drill getting its way inside a block of carbon steel rotating at 3,183 revolutions per minute. I can’t stop watching those chips getting away. And here’s a close up of the same drill getting into…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 13

How An Auto Body Innovation Revolutionized the Way We Build Skyscrapers

Certainly you’ve assembled a piece of Ikea furniture and experienced that special kind of frustration that comes with realizing the screw holes don’t line up and you have to take everything apart and put it together it again. Now imagine this problem at 750 feet in the air with massive steel girders instead of particle…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Feb 9

How the Hell Can This Magical Square Hole Drilling Machine Work?

I watch this video and I can’t believe this kind of sorcery is happening: a drilling machine in action, creating square holes. Instead of using a regular circular motion, this thing just quickly moves at different angles. I can understand the theory. I just can’t believe how it happens and the perfection of the final…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 14

Does This Mean Power Drills Are Allowed in Classrooms Now?

Marketed as the “world’s first chuckable drill powered pencil sharpener,” C.H. Hanson’s $7 Pro-Sharp Finishing Pencil Carpenter sounds much more scientific than it actually is. Just attach it to where you’d normally screw in the drill bits; whack a pencil in, and zooooooooom, off you go to sharper-pencils nirvana. And breathe! [Amazon via Notcot]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 21

Noise Cancellation for Dental Drills Will Make People Happier

King’s College Dental Institute’s Professor Brian Millar thinks that his invention—a noise cancellation device that eliminates the unnerving sound of dental drills—will make people not fear the dentist. Really, Professor Brian Millar? Really? Many people put off going to the dentist because of anxiety associated with the noise of the dentist’s drill. But this device…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 10

Never Before Seen Underground Lake Vostok Might Bring New Life Forms

For 14 million years, Antarctica’s vast Lake Vostok has remained tantalizingly sealed off from the rest of the world, hidden under 4 kilometers of ice. What unique forms of life might have evolved in the hidden depths? After years of speculation we are about to find out, as a Russian drill nears the lake. The…

Tech News Olivier Dessibourg - New Scientist Jan 8

Watch This iPad Get a Giant Hole Punched In Its Face By an Industrial Drill (Updated: Photo Proof!)

What is it about witnessing expensive electronics be destroyed that’s so inherently fascinating? We may never know! What we do know, is that this iPad destruction video is a bit more elegant than the rest—though no less fun. The hole-punching you witness here is a promotion for Say Hi To Space—a mysterious website that’s only…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 3

Live Video: Rescuing The Chilean Miners

Click to viewThe final preparations are underway to rescue the Chilean miners trapped about half a mile underground. Thanks to CBS News and Ustream, we can watch the hopefully smooth and trouble-free rescue operation live. [Ustream] https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-coffin-that-will-save-the-miners-5662423

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 12

Drill Reaches Chilean Miners, Dangerous Phase Of Rescue Effort Begins

After 66 days, the drill has finally reached the 33 Chilean miners trapped half a mile underneath the ground. If all goes well, the miners will be lifted out in a few days. This next phase of the rescue effort will actually be the most dangerous. Since the rescue shaft is only a little bit…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 9

Drill

Mini V8 Engine Turns Normal Electric Drill Into Nitro-Thirsty Monster

Read a Sci-Fi Twist on Pinocchio With In the Lives of Puppets

Clever Screwdriver Turns the Force of a Hammer Blow Into Extra Torque to Dislodge Stuck Screws

It’s Apparently Possible to Drill a Key Ring Hole Into Apple’s AirTags Without Messing Them Up

Jane Fonda Saved Her Best DC Fire Drill Friday for Last

Watch Different Colors of Paint Spin Like Crazy on a Drill in Slow Motion

Powerful drill turns metal into molten metal as it drills

The US and South Korea’s biggest live fire drill ever was pure madness

This is the cutest (and possibly smallest) 3D printed drill in the world

Guy invents device to turn 4 revolvers into a machine gun using a drill

What Happens When You Use a Giant Construction Drill on a Car?

This Slow Motion Metal Drilling Video Is So Damn Satisfying

How An Auto Body Innovation Revolutionized the Way We Build Skyscrapers

How the Hell Can This Magical Square Hole Drilling Machine Work?

Does This Mean Power Drills Are Allowed in Classrooms Now?

Noise Cancellation for Dental Drills Will Make People Happier

Never Before Seen Underground Lake Vostok Might Bring New Life Forms

Watch This iPad Get a Giant Hole Punched In Its Face By an Industrial Drill (Updated: Photo Proof!)

Live Video: Rescuing The Chilean Miners

Drill Reaches Chilean Miners, Dangerous Phase Of Rescue Effort Begins

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