What Happens When You Melt a PS3
As a console gamer, I’m constantly in a struggle to figure out what to do with my old busted systems. I guess there’s always the store credit route, or maybe a quick resell online. But I like this YouTube channel’s way of thinking—just melt the bastard.
Seeing Glass Get Blown Is Melty Goodness
When it’s burning that bright orange and oozing out like goo, glass looks almost like some sort of alien honey. This short from Bill Cox takes a close look at Chris Mosey of Ignis Glass in Chattanooga, Tennessee to examine the process of glass blowing and the relationship Mosey has with the material. The narration…
A Melting Glow Stick Is Like the Most Spectacular Candle
I’m not quite sure how the logistics will work out but I now know that I don’t want regular candles for my future birthday cakes, I want melting glow sticks. They burn so bright and ooze out such spectacular alien colors and leave such a lovely fluorescent goo behind that normal candles can’t even compare anymore.…
Watch Cotton Candy Melt and Ooze Away
I laughed. Pretty hard, actually. Right when the fluffy cloud that is cotton candy started oozing sweet sugary alien blood, I laughed hard. It’s so ridiculous and it disappears so quickly and breaks down in such a balletic way that I can’t even think about turning my head away. In fact, I don’t want to even blink. My…
Melting a Lock with a Torch Is a Great Way to Break It Open
Locks are meant to be broken. Torches are meant to wield fire. So it makes total sense to use a torch to melt the hell out of a lock to bust it open, right? Exactly! Watch as the fire from this torch completely obliterates the lock, so much so that it just oozes open and leaves the U-shape metal totally exposed.…
Watch a Light Bulb Totally Disintegrate a Ping Pong Ball
Here’s a 500 watt halogen light bulb vaporizing a ping pong ball. The wimpy plastic ball starts melting and then completely vanishes in seconds, leaving behind no evidence that it ever existed in the first place. It’s like the coolest way to dispose of anything. You can see it in slow motion at the end of the video as…
Music video of lovers melting is really cool but incredibly creepy
Most love songs have music videos where couples kiss, hug, or have sex. This video for the song Luna by South Korean band HEO does the same, except they take it to the extreme thanks to some cool but really creepy special effects.
It's Not Just The Arctic Ice That's Thinning -- It's The Snow Too
It's no secret that the ice in the arctic is getting thinner, both in terms of sheer volume and in terms of land mass occupied. But now, scientists say that we should also be concerned about the snow on top of that ice.
Seeing ice cream melt in a time lapse is oddly satisfying
The only thing bad about eating ice cream during the summer is how fast the frozen deliciousness melts. After two minutes, it's dripping onto your elbows and your forearm is sticky for the rest of the day. No one likes melted ice cream. That's why it's so bizarre that watching ice cream melt in this time lapse by …
How Earth's coastlines would look if all ice melted (bye Florida!)
National Geographic made precise maps on how Earth would look in the case all the planet's ice melted. The bad news: New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, London and other cool cities would be completely gone. The good news: the entire state of Florida would disappear.
Not so fast — what's so "premature" about premature ejaculation?
It occurred to me recently, under conditions that I leave to your ample and likely sordid imagination (how dare you), that the very concept of "premature ejaculation" in human males is a strange one, at least from an evolutionary theoretical perspective.
The Galaxy S III Is Trying So Hard It Catches Fire
The new Samsung Galaxy S III is a great phone that's just trying too hard. So hard, in fact, that it's bursting into flames under the pressure.
Watch a Spoon Melt and Turn Into Liquid Metal Ooze
How does this happen? Well, the trick is that the spoon is made from gallium, a substance that melts at only 86 degrees Fahrenheit. So when you put the gallium spoon in hot water it turns into T-1000 style liquid metal ooze. So awesome. [Reddit via The Daily What]
How to Stop Your Computer From Overheating
I remember the first time my laptop overheated on me, and how thankful I was for not wearing synthetic trousers that day. Lifehacker has done a brilliant job explaining how to prevent your computer from overheating; check it out. [Lifehacker]
The Best Skin Melting Scenes From Scifi
Click to viewChances are that on Tuesday night, you settled onto your sofa and wondered, as you flipped on the television, just how J.J. Abrams would kick off his new series Fringe. Then, before you even made it to the opening credits, you watched a planeload of people dissolve into lumps of goo. It was bizarre,…
Melt Umbrella For Hippies Who Want to Get Wet
If you're the environmentally concerned type, you'll get an eco-boner over this Melt sustainable umbrella design. The umbrella is made out of biodegradable agricultural film that will, "under the correct conditions, melt into the soil." We hope the correct conditions isn't getting wet.
