MythBusters

Sweet Dreams, Deadly Machines

source: Gizmodo.com

Here's a recap of the finer moments: The guest appearances continued, with MythBusters' Adam Savage dropping in to blow our minds about the fine art of electrocution, and why you probably shouldn't try it at home. You all got in the game, ...

Published Tue, May 26

Don´t do some of these really stupid things with truck tires

source: Tire Business

 OH Have you ever watched “Blow It Up” on cable TV? Are you into “MythBusters”? Are Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman your heroes? If you said “Yes” to any of these questions, you're like 95 percent of all the people I know in the commercial tire industry. ...

Published Tue, May 26

Vancouver engineer invents self-balancing unicycle

source: OregonLive.com

 OR Wood has gotten two technological gadgetry celebrities on the SBU -- Adam Savage, host of the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters," and Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway. Savage contacted Wood just moments after he saw a story about the SBU on the Web ...

Published Mon, May 25

Giz Explains: How Electrocution Really Kills You

source: Gizmodo.com

But physical force is weak and inefficient compared to good old electrocution, which, according to MythBusters' Adam Savage, doesn't kill you the way you think it does. If you learned about how electrocution kills you from cartoons or Ernest P. ...

Published Wed, May 20

Bits 'n' Pieces: Camas man hops a ride to "MythBusters"

source: The Columbian

 WA Top from left: “MythBusters” co-host Jamie Hyneman and Bobby Wood. Bottom from left: “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage, Daniel Wood and Jordan Thompson. It typically takes people 45 minutes to get the hang of the Self-Balancing Unicycle, ...

Published Mon, May 18

Episode 120: “Exploding Bumper”

source: MythBusters Results

Adam and Jamie set fire to a car with gasoline and measured the temperature with a thermographic camera, eventually determining that the blaze reached 1,400 °C (2,600 °F), enough to melt the aluminum bumper but surprisingly unable to make the bumper shock explode. Suspecting that unfoc...

Published Wed, May 13

MythBusters, Mind Control

source: fr.truveo.com

Adam and Jamie attempt to blow open a home improvement myth with dynamite. The 3 Mythkateers tackle mind control by manipulating someone's mind ... fr.truveo.com

Published Sat, May 9

MythBusters, Border Slingshot

source: fr.truveo.com

Adam and Jamie test the myth that immigrants are becoming human projectiles, firing themselves two hundred yards across the border and into the ... fr.truveo.com

Published Tue, May 5